I agree with you 100%, Luis. There will always be nasty people
in the audience which never helps the sport it only drives other
good people away. These days, I see many people at the fronton
who don't know the basics about the sport or how to bet. There
is no doubt that they know exactly where to get the beers and
eventually they realize that it is okay to yell profanity at the
players. They opt out on the $1.25 program which tells them about
the sport and the players. They go straight to getting wasted
and yelling. I was sitting in front of three, very drunk, young
men the other night and all I heard was profanity but the funny
thing is they didn't even know the name of the players they were
yelling at. They used descriptive names 'fatty' or 'shorty'
or called the player by the color of his jersey "hey yellow
you suck". How intelligent is that?
I enjoy talking to Jim as well as reading his posts even when
I go to most of the same performances as he does. I don't
always agree with everything Jim says but that is what makes us
human. We hear and see things differently. His opinions are exactly
that 'his opinions'. I much rather have one Jim at Orlando
Jai-alai than his equivalent in dollars which would probably be
about 50 to 60 drunk college students betting $2.00 per game.
I'm not saying that young people are not good for the sport.
What I am saying is I prefer to hear an intelligent comment over
the trash that some of these people think is necessary to say
to a player. Jim does care about the players and he respects them
as well. He knows the potential of each player and expects more
from the players because he has been watching them for many years.
He points out when they are playing well and when they did not
perform to their fullest. How is he supposed to know that a player
has a bad basket or injured. 99% of the audience doesn't
know that and almost all of them don't care anyway.
