The fans banging trashcans at games is all in good fun. I could care less about that...but it crosses into a deeper problem when you start threatening people or their families. Then you have people saying the Astros are just "playing the victim" with speaking out about the threats they are getting. No...this is proof that it's actually happening. There are some sick people.
Don't doubt the California trash. They'll beat you, they'll kill you. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dodgers-giants-victim-identified-20130926-story.html https://nypost.com/2015/10/13/mets-fan-victim-of-bloody-dodger-stadium-beatdown/ https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Giants-fan-critically-beaten-by-Dodgers-fans-2377253.php
There are a lot of really low caliber people in Los Angeles. You can see it in their fans. Lakers fans are garbage and Dodgers fans are worse. There is the entitled garbage that circles the drain that is unique to LA, then you have the “gangsta” trash that trolls the crappy parts of LA. Philadelphia has lots of trash, but it is the same type of trash. Los Angeles is unique in that it has multiple layers of trash.
Are people forgetting this is just a game? How much of a loser do you have to be to threaten someone's life over a child's game?
Tell me about it ... us Astros fans in SoCal have it the worst ... going out to the grocery store in my Astros shirt might get someone I dont even know to try and start something with me
Look up Stow and Auffant, both got damn near beaten to death in a Dodger Stadium parking lot, 2 separate occasions....because they were wearing the wrong hat and ran across the wrong Dodger Fans. eta: oh hell, that's not even counting the Giants fan that they murdered after a game ~15 years ago.
Fans have their signs taken Fans hoping to heckle the sign-stealing Houston Astros at the team's spring opener were met with quite the coincidence. They got their signs taken. In the Astros' first spring training game since their sign-stealing scandal rocked baseball, some fans brought signs jeering Houston, and ballpark personnel confiscated them before the Grapefruit League opener against the World Series champion Washington Nationals on Saturday night. Two men in Nationals gear sitting behind the Astros' dugout briefly held up crudely drawn signs just before first pitch. One read: "You see my hate?" in large block letters. Another said: "Houston *'s" to read "Houston asterisks," suggesting the Astros' 2017 World Series title should be permanently blemished because of the cheating. The men didn't get to show off their signs for long. A woman who worked for the ballpark quickly approached to take the signs. The men didn't argue with the woman, but they did look confused as she walked away with the signs folded in her arms. Matthew Silliman, who held one of the signs, said he didn't know they were forbidden. He drove to the game in West Palm Beach, Florida, from Tampa Bay and said he had been waiting to let the Astros know what he thinks of them. "I'm a big Nats fan, and it's wrong," he said. "They're cheaters." While Silliman didn't get to keep his signs, he said it wouldn't stop him from heckling the Astros with his voice. "Oh yeah," he said. "They're going to get it all." He didn't have long. The game was delayed because of rain after two innings and canceled about 90 minutes later when rain continued. One fan in a Nationals jersey yelled: "Hey Altuve, are you scared to play tonight?" Others screamed "You suck!" and "Cheaters!" About a half-dozen fans wore shirts that read "bang foul poles, not trash cans" in reference to Howie Kendrick's decisive home run for Washington in Game 7 of last year's World Series. First-year Houston manager Dusty Baker said he didn't think the reception was "too bad" and said his team will have to get used to it. "You'll probably get the same reception most places you go, especially the first go-round," he said. "So you've just got to put your big-boy pants on and then just try to shut it out and just play baseball and realize this too shall pass."
I posted the Rocky training montage on my social media. Saying this was "me getting ready to travel to road games"
Let them keep the signs as long as they aren’t offensive. Astros should sell bighead size World Series trophies and championship ring print outs. I’d buy one.
Except that it is not just a game. It is a huge business. A 10 billion dollar business. Of course, that in no way negates your point about threats.
