When it comes to fans, sometimes folks like me get wrapped up in quantity not quality.

But sometimes quantity is over-rated - just ask anyone who has eaten at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet.

With so much focus on the quantity of D-Backs fans, last night the quality was superb.

As Jake Peavy was walking off the field - having tied a career high by giving up eight runs - the D-Backs fans gave him the business. They got on his butt. They gave him hell. It was a crescendo moment for D-Back fan.

Peavy requested this. He wanted to pitch on short rest. He smelled Sedona Red blood a couple days back and thought that by pitching on short rest against a team he’s owned this year he’d provide the kill shot. It was a confident, brilliant move if it worked an arrogant blunder if it didn’t.

It didn’t, and the fans there let him know.

Bravo.

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