http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2003/04/19/rangers_everett_ap/ Poor Carl Everett. His life seemed so much better when he was an Astro.
I believe that fan was just trying to say: "Hey Carl ...Ty Cobb called ....he wants his a-hole personality back"
This is BS, what kind of idiot would throw his cell phone down on the field? I hope that guy gets prosecuted and that they make an example out of him.
I am with you 100% I am so sick and tired of fans who feel they have the right to do things such as cuss out players, talk about their familes and so on. Though it makes them look bad when players react to such behavior, in the past I thought all players who reacted were punks, but the more I see a-hole fans the more I tend to not judge them if they do retaliate as I have seen too many fans who (even cheering for my team) acted like such asses that I hoped a player would do something and from time to time I have wanted to kick the crap out of a few myself.
I think it's awesome when a player reacts to heckling. I was at an Astros-Rockies game and Doug Jones called some guy a "dirt-cork". It didn't make sense but it was funny! Then we went to the Stros-Cards game last sunday, and my dad dropped his free shirt on the field during batting Practice. it was by the railroad tracks, and he tried to get some of the Cards to throw it back up(Steve Kline, Russ Springer, their bullpen coach) but they just took it in there bullpen. I think the Astros bullpen now has a new dart board.
Trust me I have done my fare share, but I tend to keep it more on the comical side. I have gotten some on field reposnes from the really bad to a very good one. I was given the finger by Derrick Bell, but Bonds in the Dome back in 1998 was the best sport. We were sitting just past the Giants bullpen and were making all sorts of cracks about the team and you could see Barry laughing...we were really on a roll. Barry came out for the 7th inning for his warm-up tosses and when he got there he threw a ball to us that he had autograhed between innings. There were 3 of us so when my friend got the ball, I yelled "thanks a lot, we'll split it 3 ways, and I want the part without your writing." He looked at us and laughed again then in the bottom of the 8th a ballboy came down to their bullpen with another ball and a cap autographed as well. Needless to say, that made me a Barry fan regardless of how he is with the media.
Fans shouldn't throw stuff at players or insult their families. I can understand making fun of the players themselves as long as you keep it somewhat civilized.
Done and Done. I heard on 610 am this morning the guy is getting charged with assault with a deadly weapon. OUCH!
Fan says he had 12 beers before storming field -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press CHICAGO -- The man who ran onto the field last week and was charged with attacking an umpire said he had been drinking all day and never intended to hurt anybody. "I'm deeply sorry," Eric Dybas said. "I regret doing everything that I did." Dybas said he wanted to distinguish himself from the three men who had stormed the field before he leaped from the stands during Tuesday night's Chicago White Sox-Kansas City Royals game. "I wanted to get a rise out of the crowd, plain and simple," Dybas told the Chicago Sun-Times during an interview at Cook County Jail. "I wanted to do something that would stick out a little more, but I never intended for it to be like I was trying to inflict any danger on anybody." Dybas said he had six 16-ounce beers at Wrigley Field, where he attended a Chicago Cubs game in the afternoon and another six beers at U.S Cellular Field. When he jumped the wall, he heard the crowd cheer him, Dybas said, adding he didn't intend to crash into umpire Laz Diaz. "As soon as I got to him, I went down on the ground, and the next thing I honestly remember is being in the lock-up section," he said. In all, four people came onto the field during the game. The other three were charged with misdemeanors because they did not jump anyone. The 24-year-old Dybas of suburban Bolingbrook was charged with one count of felony aggravated battery and one count of misdemeanor criminal trespass. A judge set bond at $250,000. If convicted, Dybas faces two-to-five years in prison, prosecutors said. Seven months earlier, Royals coach Tom Gamboa was attacked at what was then called Comiskey Park by a man and his son who went on the field near the first base dugout. Alcohol, the world's last excuse for stupidity.
