According to Mets, Cheering Not Allowed in Baseball

From MLB.com (hat tip to River Ave. Blues for the pickup):

A day after Mets right-hander Nelson Figueroa accused the Nationals of "cheering like softball girls," Washington manager Manny Acta was unfazed by Figueroa's comments...

"Everybody is entitled to their opinion," Acta said. "We live in a world nowadays where everything you do or say, you are offending someone. I don't have any reaction to [the comments]. They were not yelling names or anything like that. They were cheering their own guys. You don't see it in the big leagues, but I don't think they were doing anything mean. [Figueroa] is entitled to his opinion. This is America."

Seems pretty reasonable to me. Apparently not so to Figueroa, who like every Joba hater, would have emotion completely stricken from the game of baseball.

To wit:

"I'm a professional," Figueroa said after the game on Monday. "I take offense to that. They should show a little more class and act a little more professional. That's why they are who they are."

I guess that's what happens when you're banished to the minor leagues: you turn into a heartless, bitter robot incapable of fun.