Philadelphia Phillies’ Anti J.D. Drews: The Players Who Cannot Be Booed

The Phillies are rolling to start the season. Dominant pitching and an offense that has hit the second most singles in baseball are a big reason for that. The emergence of Antonio Bastardo, Danys Baez and the now injured Jose Contreras have helped solidify the bullpen.

Too many pundits and “experts” decided to overlook the four-time defending NL East champions (and their historic starting rotation) in favor of the Atlanta Braves, a team that has done nothing in the playoffs in a decade except watch the Phillies dominate.

Road games have turned into home games for the Phillies wherever they go. From sea to shining sea, East coast to West coast, the oppositions stadium looks like a sea of red whenever the Phillies are in town. There is an 80% chance that you will see a top 20 pitcher in baseball when you go to a Phil’s game, well worth the price of admission.

The Phillies have shown thus far that even though some of the players are different than in years past, the mantra is the same: You better be ready to play us every inning of every game.

They have four starting pitchers who have the potential to dominate an entire game and if they have an off-start, they have another ace up their sleeve ready to battle the next day.

Their lineup has faltered a bit of late, but they have shown that they can still win games with timely hitting. It’s funny that the same “experts” who claimed the Phillies will struggle this season with no Utley, Werth, Lidge…list goes on and on, have kept their mouth shut while the Phillies have dominated.

The Phillies have sold out over 140 consecutive games and have already sold over three million tickets for this season. Obviously the fans have fallen in love with this team, but the city still gets a bad rap for incidents from decades ago (when most of us weren’t even born) and some idiotic actions committed by a select few.

Any way you slice it, the fans are the reason the Phillies were able to bring together one of the greatest pitching rotations (on paper) in baseball history. Three of the best pitchers in the game waived no-trade clauses and took less guaranteed money to play at Citizens Bank Park.

So why do the fans of Philadelphia still get categorized by a complete idiot who decides to vomit on a little girl, or Santa being booed over a half-century ago? Dodger Stadium has had seven people stabbed in their confines in the last decade, but does the national media report that? Absolutely not, it takes a man being seriously beaten by a bunch of thugs for the spotlight to shine down.

Philadelphia Phillies fans are some of the most loyal and passionate fans in the world and I love how they let players know if they are not playing up to their potential… Or if they just flat-out don’t like you. We boo and we boo loud.

But there are some players on this current team that may be “boo-proof.” Players that you respect so much either for their hard-work, loyalty, determination and/or past performances that it just doesn’t feel right to boo.

So here it is folk’s: The top five Philadelphia Phillies who can not be booed.

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