Tony Vitello gives brutally honest response to SF Giants fans booing after blowout

The SF Giants reached another new low on Saturday night as they got blown out 13-3 by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Giants fans were booing when things got really bad and manager Tony Vitello gave a very honest response after the game.

Speaking to reporters, Vitello said the following when asked about the boos: "What would you do? They paid for their ticket. They chose this over everything else. I mean there's 85 million shows you can watch on Netflix... maybe your walls are painted orange & black and this is the team your whole family for generations has supported, you got a lot invested. So you want something in return. At the very least a good effort, maybe execution here and there... it got to the point where it wasn't an acceptable effort."

Giants deserve to be booed at this point after awful start to season

It's true. The Giants just did not put up a good effort on Saturday night. The game was somewhat competitive until the seventh inning when the Pirates broke the game open with six runs and the Giants made a calamity of errors.

Fans weren't paying to see Heliot Ramos whiff on a easy fly ball or to see Willy Adames kick the ball around. They certainly weren't paying to see infielder Christian Koss pitch in the ninth inning to preserve some other bullpen arms.

Giants fans at Oracle Park don't often boo their own team. It's happened before, but it isn't New York or Philadelphia where fans use the boo with reckless abandon like it's in the Bill of Rights. Carlos Rodón even called Giants fans out for not booing after he joined the New York Yankees.

Vitello may be a bit goofy at times and he certainly likes to talk, but the guy is seemingly honest pretty much all of the time. He knows how much this bad start to the season is grating on fans. He's even said he's been afraid to go out into the city at times because he doesn't want to show his face until the team starts winning some more games.

At this rate he may not feel all that comfortable going out at all with the way the season is trending. The Giants really shouldn't be this bad on paper, but as Will Clark warned recently when the snowball gets rolling in the wrong direction it can be awfully hard to get it turned back around.

Vitello has to be feeling it more than anyone else. It's not his fault because he didn't assemble this poorly constructed roster but he knew he'd be under a microscope coming straight from the college ranks so this bad start stings even more for him.

One can only hope that's the last time boos will be directed at the Giants at Oracle Park this season, but at this rate it seems like boos may be as regular as the seagulls looking for scraps.

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