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An explanation courtesy of the fantastic The700Level piece: Chase’s Four Letter Fall Out:

Upon viewing Chase being introduced live at Yankee stadium, I was rather shocked to hear my favorite baseball player get booed. You don’t boo Chase Utley. It wasn’t until people commenting on this site pointed it out to us that we realized Chase Utley dropped an F-bomb in reaction to the boos. “Boo? F*ck you,” Chase quipped to fellow second basemen Dan Uggla as the cameras rolled and caught every syllable.

More importantly, here is the awesome video:

If you couldn’t make out said curse words in the above clip, you won’t miss them in this lower-quality youtube version.

The question now is, of course, has the reputation of one of the most well-respected players in the big leagues, universally lauded for his reserved, business-like approach to anything and everything baseball been forever tarnished?  

The answer to this question is simple: no.  Although when one is already one of the single greatest human beings of all time, it seems as though there is only one direction to go…but not for Chase.  I didn’t think it could happen, but I now love him even more.  Aside from the idiodic reactions of lame-ass Mets fans, the blogosphere seems to reflect my take on the situation (see, e.g. Chase Utley: An American hero).