Proper reaction to The Wave at Mays Field?  This requires a bit
of set up. I'm ordinarily an overly respectful kind of person,
and pretty much hate making a spectacle of myself. I tend to
cringe at heckling, and even wince a bit at the "SIRM" kind of
chatter that goes on online here. (There, I have said it . . .
recognize that my credibility is permanently affixed at zero.I
just never saw Russell Martin as that hateable. A.J. Pierzynski
on the other hand . . . ) I'm just not a big boo-er in general.
That having been said, there are a few things that just flip my
switch. I'm not sure I can synthesize what kinds of things they
are, exactly . . . but I think the fairest summary is that they
are things that are just aggressively and deliberately
unintelligent. To pick on some Giants, those things would
include    • Pedro Feliz hacking at balls in the dirt in the LHB
batting box with two strikes. It felt to me like he knew better
but just couldn't stand the possibility that he get called out
looking. So hack hack