Here's why you have to love Yankees fans:
Jonathan Papelbon, the Red Sox closer, just entered the All-Star Game to start the top of the eighth inning, score tied at 2.
The fans started booing ASAP. Then came the "Ma-ree-ah-no!" chants. Then came a single by Miguel Tejada. Before the ball even touched the grass in right field, the fans re-booed Paps. After catching their collective breath, fans switch to "Ov-er-rated!" chants. It was as if they flashed it on the scoreboard in case Yankees fans weren't sure which derisive chant to use.
Tejada then swiped second base on slow-to-the-plate Paps and took third on Dioner Navarro's woeful throw onto the Grand Concourse. More boos.
Tejada scores on a sacrifice fly, AL trailing 3-2 because of Paps. More boos. After a strikeout of David Wright to end the innings, boos rained down on Paps like D batteries on Albert (Joey) Belle.
The reason for all this venom toward Paps? Well, it wasn't just the Red Sox uniform. On Monday, Paps suggested he deserved to close the game in Yankee Stadium instead of Mariano Rivera.
The New York Daily News fueled the fire with its "Papel-bum" back page headline. Who says newspapers are dead? Paps was a bit, um, upset at that cover.
