Javier Vazquez is not the pattern ...

Javier Vazquez is not the pattern to play the role of being above it all.

to such a degree when asked Wednesday if he heard the boo directed at him during the sixth inning of Tuesday night's los to the Kansas City Royals, the Sox right-hander smiled.

"It's normal that we hear it," Vazquez said. "There are times when you are on the outside there and you are in this way focused on the game you don't hear it, further when I came out of that game, I heard it."

level with manager Ozzie Guillen continuing to insist Wednesday that Vazquez "pitched a upright game," another sixth-inning stumble for Vazquez was a big reason the sellout lower orders at U.S. Cellular Field wasted little time turning in succession him.

In the los Vazquez went 5 innings, allowing four roll ons (three earned) on seven hits.

"To me it doesn't bother me" Vazquez said. "I think that stays should get booed at times."

Not that he hasn't seen it before. After playing his first six big-league seasons in Montreal, he went to the southern Bronx and put on the pinstripes in 2004

"When I played in Montreal, you didn't hear it because there were in such a manner few fans," Vazquez said. "To proceed from Montreal to the fresh York Yankees was really different. I mean when I was there in 2004 Derek Jeter was slumping the first not many months of that season, and I plane heard them boo Jeter. If he can achieve booed by his own fans, anyone can."

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