Public Enemy Number One

Here's a continuing story that really doesn't get enough play -- the hate that Jazz Fan is giving Lakers guard Derek Fisher.

Now, I get why you'd want to boo an opponent, and I will never be one of those people who wants to impinge on that right. So long as you keep it clean, so that I don't have to regret bringing my kid to the game, we're good.

But I'm not quite getting why Jazz Fan has such an issue with a guy who only left because, well, the freaking health of his daughter was at stake. Do y'all think that he had her fake it, or that he should just live apart from his family during the majority of the year that he's playing basketball?

Honestly, I don't get it. Besides, aren't people from an overwhelmingly religious part of the country supposed to be, you know, moral and trusting and not overwhelmingly petty and vindictive?

I also don't get why the national media is more or less giving the team and town a pass on this. It's reprehensible on its face, and clearly worse than just about anything that Philly Fan has done. Of course, it's also coming from an organization whose owner wanted to keep "Brokeback Mountain" from being seen by anyone in the state, and who won't be at the game today, because it's on a Sunday.

So, really, Jazz Fan, what the hell is the deal? Should Fisher only get to play for your team, no matter what's better for the life of his kid?