[magicmike]

I agree that booing an injured player - any injured player - is an act severely lacking in class. I'm not a Reds fan, but I think I'd be right if I believed that those fans were not booing a guy for trying to make a play; they were expressing their extreme frustration that the guy who came over to be the cornerstone of their franchise is once again not going to be in a position to contribute anything to the team. And they're tired of it. Surely not good, but certainly understandable.

Anyway, I stand by my initial statement. I think it would be great for him and for Reds fans if he didn't have to miss too much time and then came back strong. But I don't expect that to happen. He should hang it up because he's not doing anybody any good by sticking around. He's an anchor around the team's neck and if he wants to continue to play he needs to start over somewhere else. In getting hurt he didn't try to do anything 85% of the rest of the players in the league wouldn't have tried to do.

Some Yankees fans continued to cheer for Strawberry and Gooden long after they should have stopped, but they liked those guys because they produced for New York when they played. Griffey was great (maybe the best player in the league at the time) in Seattle but I don't think he'll ever earn the same kind of appreciation in Cincinnatti that Strawberry and Gooden earned in N.Y.