Why is cano getting booed in kansas city

Get the Tips. Shop Here. Newsletters Membership Grownup-ish Promotions Dispensaries. Jonathan Bender ,. Cano still loves you, Kansas City. There's nothing negative. Obviously, Robinson is a great player and a great guy. He's one of the best players in the league. You can't dislike the guy.

Despite the rough fan response and the poor showing, Cano said he would happily take part in another Derby. You're not going to be the hero all the time. This is for the fans. When you make a mistake, you have to take it. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Caple: Robinson Cano gets the Royal mistreatment.

Kansas City Royals. Tua helps Dolphins to win after Brissett injured. Miami Dolphins. Four players ejected after Gobert, Turner tussle. Utah Jazz. Rams add Beckham Jr. Cheap housing, kind people, great barbeque, no championships. Fans accept games of little consequence, and so built up inside is a tidal wave of sporting emotion waiting to lay waste to whatever gets in its way.

Like, say, Robinson Cano. Bryce Harper: All-Stars talk about preferred rookie phenom ]. In the aftermath, however, Kansas City grew defensive against the accusations from outsiders that the booing was petty and bush league and silly. It was. It was ridiculous. That's part of what made it great. And all Kansas City needed to do was own its ludicrousness, laugh at itself, not throw up a wall of excuses as to why Cano deserved it.

Save the anger for something that deserves it, like, oh, pretty much anything else. The idea that the booing represented some sort of stand by the fans against Kansas City's insignificance is wildly wrongheaded. It was mean for meanness' sake, hostile for hostility's sake, an acid-rain shower on a Yankee who they believed did them dirty. They turned a singular deed into a vitriolic money shot. The purchase of a ticket allows them as much. And that's all well and good so long as they know the upshot.

Booing comes with consequences. A city can't boo a guy who, in the eyes of most, did nothing more than commit a slip of the tongue and then chafe at those who dare question the source of the jeers. Kansas City sports-talk radio Tuesday blew up with shows of civic pride, of callers and hosts alike puffing their chests in support of a city standing up for itself. That provincial attitude caused a furor from the provincial New York media and with the news wash, it became a thing.

Fast forward to Tuesday when not only had the home fans been slighted by Cano the night before, they listened to a day of mocking from the media capital of the word about the midwest yokels and their desire to -- gasp -- see one of their own. At the parade Tuesday afternoon, Cano was booed.

During batting practice -- booed. During the introductions, boy was he booed.