During the past decade, the Boston metropolitan area has been blessed with euphoria stemming from successful professional sports franchises. The New England Patriots, for example, have earned 4 Super Bowl appearances in the past 7 years. The Boston Red Sox have won 2 World Series Titles in the past 4 years. The Celtics have risen from the ashes of sheer misery to win its 1st NBA Championship since the glorious days when Larry Bird and Kevin McHale sprinted the hardwood at the old Boston Garden. The Bruins recently earned its 1st trip to the NHL playoffs since the 2003-04 season. And the New England Revolution has even gotten into the action with 4 trips to the MLS Championship in the past 6 years. During this same timeframe, fans in the area have been able to watch breathtaking performances by electrifying future hall of famers like Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Kevin Garnett, Joe Thornton, and Steve Ralston. Yet despite all this success, which is a success matched nowhere else on planet earth during this point in history, harbors the largest conglomerate of fair weather fans in professional sports. While pundits, fans, and sports psychologists could debate to the moon the reasoning behind why Bostonian fans are more demanding than Jessica Tandy in Driving Ms. Daisy; the fact remains their behavior is undeniably embarrassing. Ridiculous fan reaction to the Patriots first loss in 21 games aside, let?s take Thursday night?s baseball game at Fenway Park for example. Despite being a career .287 hitter with 1329 hits, 289 homeruns, and 969 regular season RBI; despite serving as Mr. Clutch during 13 playoff series appearances with 11 homeruns, 43 RBI, and an on base percentage of .403; and despite finishing in the top 5 in MVP voting in 5 of the past 6 seasons, David Ortiz, who is the same individual who has played through injury to help his team, found himself on the receiving end of booing fans after an early strikeout during game 5 of the American League Championship Series. But Ortiz was not the only Red Sox player to feel the wrath of the ignorant. Daisuke Matsuzaka also received a fair round of jeers following his rocky performance. Quite frankly, Matsuzaka is the last player Boston fans should heave boo wrenches at, for without his dominating regular season 18-3 record and 2.94 ERA to accompany 154 strikeouts, and without his dominating performance in game 1 of the ALCS despite cowbells galore; Boston would be nothing more than a professional baseball afterthought. Those who unfairly jeered Matsuzaka and Ortiz could learn a valuable lesson from those minority souls at Fenway Park who possessed enough humility to give Matsuzaka a standing ovation as a gesture of gratitude for all he has done to help the Red Sox this season. It is this behavior, that when combined with ESPN mocking those who had given up early on a championship Red Sox team, and CBS commentators mocking 5 year old like fans stammering from a stadium housing a consistently successful football team that gives Boston area fans a national black eye. As unfair as it is to those who have been greatly appreciative of area athletics success, this black eye will continue as long as Boston fans look to scavenge for tea to dump in the Boston Harbor after a rare loss to a less talented, but craftier opponent like the Dolphins. Of course, there are those who attempt to justify their idiotic behavior by saying, ?I paid good money to see this game, so I can say whatever I want an can boo whoever the hell I please.? To that I say cheers because it is your 1st amendment right. That?s one of the greatest things about America ? freedom of speech ? even when utterly ignorant. The reality is that only a handful of franchises in professional sports demand similar wrath to what Boston fans unleash on each and every one of its teams. The Detroit Lions provide the biggest example. While Patriot fans charge for the exits late in the third quarter of one poorly played home game, football fans in Motown can do nothing but chuckle because the same has suffered through two terribly played decades. When Lions' fans start laughing at Patriot fans, it may be very well time for the latter to travel to the Atlantic Ocean for some much needed fan behavior reflection. Of course, this will never happen because just like Manny was just being Manny, Boston fans will always be Boston fans, which is why Manny may have packed his bags and joined New York Yankee outcast Joe Torre in Los Angeles in the first place. I guess Manny and the Boston aficionados he used to play before are not so different after all.