# Why fans get what they deserve: Kenny Rogers gets support from fans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845 "2005-07-10T14:10:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/1 "2005-07-10T14:10:45Z")
[ > [@](#): > > There’s no way that I wouldn’t notice all the fans and all the support they showed. That’s one of the big things players play for. ]([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=5)) The prick attacked cameramen, and the fans cheer him for it? :rolleyes: 20 games were too few. He should miss the rest of the season and he should be charged with aggravated assault. And yet he gets cheers. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/2 "2005-07-10T14:26:59Z")
There are some people, who, for no known reason, will latch onto a celebrity like they were getting pid for it. Apparently this makes them feel good. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/3 "2005-07-10T14:36:24Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > The prick attacked cameramen, and the fans cheer him for it? :rolleyes: > > 20 games were too few. He should miss the rest of the season and he should be charged with aggravated assault. And yet he gets cheers. Wow. He’s an idiot as are his admirers. They deserve each other. I hope the camera guy sues his sorry ass. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/4 "2005-07-10T14:41:59Z")
Charles Manson would get cheers in Arlington if he had a [2.54 ERA](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=3974). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/5 "2005-07-10T14:43:17Z")
_Coward of the County_ wasn’t too bad, as ballads go, but he lost me with _Islands in the Stream_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/6 "2005-07-10T14:49:13Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > _Coward of the County_ wasn’t too bad, as ballads go, but he lost me with _Islands in the Stream_. Some people can sing a Bee Gees song, some can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/7 "2005-07-10T19:48:39Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > _Coward of the County_ wasn’t too bad, as ballads go, but he lost me with _Islands in the Stream_. I was about to say… Some people don’t know when the hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run… ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/8 "2005-07-10T19:56:12Z")
Who the heck is Kenny Rogers? Wasn’t that the name of an obese stereotypical country western singer in MadTV? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/9 "2005-07-10T20:51:19Z")
Yes. And a current MLB player whose parents must have hated kids.\* - as evidenced by both his name and his 'tude. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/10 "2005-07-10T22:36:40Z")
Whether it’s sports, movies, TV music, whatever. People like this act like bastards only because star power and blind adulation lets them get away with it. What I wanna know is, how come they never try their nonsense on someone who can give it right back to them. It’s like they consciously choose easy targets. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/11 "2005-07-10T22:59:37Z")
All of you heartless fiends can bite me. [Kenny Rogers](http://www.pitt.edu/utimes/issues/32/000622/07.html) was one of the best damn pediatricians the University of Pittsburgh ever saw, and he is sorely missed. I won’t hear a word spoken against him. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/12 "2005-07-11T10:28:19Z")
I have always been a fan of [the original and the best](http://www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com/). I have no idea who the guy is you’re all talking about, and what he did to deserve such scorn. It’s all been talked about like we’re already supposed to know. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/13 "2005-07-11T12:01:06Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Some people can sing a Bee Gees song, some can’t. Not even the Bee Gees can do a tolerable job on them. Though _Lonely Days_ wasn’t bad. Maybe Kenny Rogers’ “fan support” is similar to that a piled-on Doper cites when one lone poster agrees with him. We’ll see how many cheers Kenny gets when he takes the mound. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/14 "2005-07-11T12:06:14Z")
Let his ERA go above 5.00, and that fan support will melt like ice in the Texas sun. To me, he’s just another journeyman pitcher who couldn’t cut it in New York. His 20 game suspension is a joke, it should have been the rest of the season. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/15 "2005-07-11T13:07:42Z")
Did that prick have to pay for the camera? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/16 "2005-07-11T13:16:57Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Did that prick have to pay for the camera? I’m sure that’ll come up in the lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/17 "2005-07-11T13:20:46Z")
Well, here’s the way I heard it from the local news over the last week or so: 1. After the shoving incident, fans booed Rogers when he next appeared on the field. 2. Rogers issued his public apology (such as it was). 3. The next game (also being the most recent game), fans cheered him when he appeared on the field. 4. Rogers then proceeded to throw a stinker of a game and the fans booed him again. 5. But Rogers pulled it out in the end and the Rangers won, and fans cheered him again. Bah. It’s basically SAST (Short Attention Span Theater), ya know? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/18 "2005-07-11T13:35:35Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Let his ERA go above 5.00, and that fan support will melt like ice in the Texas sun. To me, he’s just another journeyman pitcher who couldn’t cut it in New York. His 20 game suspension is a joke, it should have been the rest of the season. Dude, he’s in his 40s, has close to 200 wins, 1700 strike outs and a perfect game. Call him what you like, but journeyman isn’t a good descriptor. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/19 "2005-07-11T13:37:46Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Dude, he’s in his 40s, has close to 200 wins, 1700 strike outs and a perfect game. Call him what you like, but journeyman isn’t a good descriptor. I’m a bit biased as a Yankee fan. There he couldn’t hit the ocean if he threw from the wharf. He was about as worthless a Yankee as Don Gullett was in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845/20 "2005-07-11T13:39:14Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Dude, he’s in his 40s, has close to 200 wins, 1700 strike outs and a perfect game. Call him what you like, but journeyman isn’t a good descriptor. He’s never won 20 games; he’s never led the league in anything meaningful. Journeyman is an extremely apt description. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-fans-get-what-they-deserve-kenny-rogers-gets-support-from-fans/311845.md?page=2)