Dusty Baker: Angels fans’ trash-can trolling 'a sad situation for America'

Astros manager Dusty Baker was predictably perturbed over the trash-can trolling, saying the fans’ antics made for a “sad situation in America” after the game.

“You can tell the amount of hostility and the amount of hatred in the stands,” Baker said, via ESPN. “How many in the stands have never done anything wrong in their life? We paid the price for it. How many people have not cheated on a test or whatever at some point in time. I mean it’s easy if you live in glass houses, but I don’t think anybody lives in glass houses.

“I think that sometimes we need to look at ourselves before you spew hate on somebody else. It’s a sad situation for America, to me, when you hear things — I mean what are the kids supposed to think in the stands? And some of them are kids that are following their parents. It’s sad to me. People make mistakes. We paid for ours, and I wish they’d leave it alone.”

The open hostility in Anaheim followed how the Astros were jeered during the team’s season-opening, four-game series in Oakland against the A’s. Suffice to say, if the treatment the Astros have already endured this season is any indication of what’s to come, the team is in for a long, long season on the road, much to Baker’s clearly evident disappointment.