Most of the top U.S. runners stayed away from the 2000 Boston race to run a few weeks later at the Olympic trials in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately for Alex Rodriguez, so were the Texas Rangers, who lost in his first game back in Seattle. That's why they're some of the greatest fans. They were in postseason form. If I was wearing a Mariners' uniform, they would have been cheering for me.
People have their own opinion.
Maybe the first time. Forty-five thousand people made a decision to boo him. You've got to remember what this guy brought to the city. Rafael Palmeiro homered twice for Texas and drove in five runs. But Rodriguez and the boos were the big story.