DEFENDING THE FANS
Fireplug

As the Webmaster here I read everything all you fans post every day. Because of that, I would like to think that I know a little bit about how real Kings fans really feel. And I feel it needs to be said that the players are dead wrong in their feelings about what they think happened last night when Jon Barry was booed by the fans as a joke.

I wish we fans could have spoken to Scot and Jon when they went on the radio to relate their feelings, because we could have put their minds at ease about our true feeling for Jon. Nobody needs to feel bad. The players don't need to. The fans don't need to. Why? Because they WEREN'T REAL BOOS! Scot THINKS they were but he is dead wrong and selling the fans short.

Scot said he thought that the fans were more knowledgeable about the league. Well, the reason so many fans booed, and kept it up is because we ARE knowledgeable, and know who is a good guy and who isn't and we fans KNEW it was a ridiculous idea that anyone would really boo Barry, and we all figured Jon would know it too.

Heck, when it happened, Vlade and the guys were laughing on the bench, I was looking at him through my binoculars, and Jon was making funny faces back at Vlade and the Kings players. And the fans saw their joking interaction and played it up even more.

Nobody bought into any media junk that Jon was talking smak or that Vlade would really pay us $5. IT WAS A JOKE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. We all knew it, players broadcasters and fans alike. If anyone would have thought for a second that Jon or any of the players would have believed that the boos were real then they NEVER would have booed, and they all would have instead given him the standing ovation that he usually gets.

So if anyone knows a player or two personally, please point them to the forums here so that they can see how real fans really feel, and stop selling us short.