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Originally Posted by Brad K
Fans will ridicule the Astros until they're tired of it. Preventing fans from doing that (by confiscating their signs, evicting them from the park, etc) will give fans more energy ans desire to ridicule the Astros.
If a team tried something like a trash can night, the commissioner would stop it. Not that there's much of a chance. Owners aren't going to taunt other members of their guaranteed profit club.
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I think Bonds was booed and had * signs directed at him on the road, from the day he hit #71 in 2001, until the day he retired. I find it interesting that that behaviour was allowed, but this was not.
I think the reason these got taken down is because the game was in Houston's home park (Houston and Washington share their spring training facilities). This sort of crap better not happen in road stadiums when the Astr*s come to play this year, but knowing baseball it will. Fans, and players on other teams, have every right to their anger. Cutting off the expression of that anger could escalate things even further. MLB had better think long and hard about what steps they take here, lest they make it worse. Given their track record, I'm not all that optimistic they'll make the right choice though.