matt leach has albert's unabridged comments about the booing in st louis. there's a long discussion about booing in this morning's VEB post, a lot of thoughtful comments -- thanks to ev'ybody who weighed in. also see The Dude's diary and Bowen's diary on this topic. in my view there's no right or wrong here; i understand why people are booing, and i also understand why it offends people. call me wishy-washy, but my sentiments fall into line with rockin' redbird's, viz. -- "I believe people have every right to boo if they want. . . . I choose not to because, to me, it solves nothing."
as for why fans are booing, maybe will leitch wasn't all that far off when he wrote at baseball prospectus a couple months back about (as he titled it) the cardinals' offseason of discontent. quoting from that article (which you can read here if you're a BP subscriber:
my post about that article generated a lively discussion (71 comments), and the followup post got another 23 comments. might be worth a read (or re-read) in light of this discordant first homestand.