Video: Hatred and prejudice in New England!
posted at 5:55 pm on July 7, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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This is for my friends Dean Barnett and King Banaian. At some point, you have to let go of the hatred … step back from the brink …. and for goodness sake, don’t grab the aluminum baseball bat. Not everyone with New York plates is a Yankees fan:
Even if the driver was a Yankees fan, it’s only July. Save some for the stretch, folks.
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If Manny can do it, why can’t this guy?
JiangxiDad on July 7, 2008 at 5:58 PM
And yet still less violent than soccer fans.
Go figure…
dc84123 on July 7, 2008 at 5:59 PM
“Its just not his nature, I just don’t see him doing this, this isn’t the young man I know”.
Baracky would be proud.
Bishop on July 7, 2008 at 5:59 PM
I hate The Red Sox. Batter up .
Texyank on July 7, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Way to stay classy, Boston.
Go Yankees.
rbj on July 7, 2008 at 6:01 PM
What’s he charged with? Attempted murder, I hope.
trubble on July 7, 2008 at 6:02 PM
soccer fans are not that violent..except British ones. That has actually stopped too. It’s been cut down a lot, infact we had Euro 2008, and there was not a big incident…just minor ones. I think the reputation of soccer is being maligned needlessly.
Chudi on July 7, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Soccer games are mini wars. Those people can get insane.
Esthier on July 7, 2008 at 6:04 PM
You stay classy, Red Sox fans.
malan89 on July 7, 2008 at 6:04 PM
So that’s why AP hasn’t posted today…
Number 2 on July 7, 2008 at 6:04 PM
He was just giving batting lessons! Face it, the Yankees could use a few pointers.
stonemeister on July 7, 2008 at 6:05 PM
bats work well.. (If you need the ammo, in a pinch for an out of control situation)
just please, don’t use them for stupid stuff.. If you wanna fight someone just do it old skool..
Chakra Hammer on July 7, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Probably will depend on his prior arrest record.
he could only get assault and battery and community service… IF he has no priors.
Chakra Hammer on July 7, 2008 at 6:08 PM
My allegiance to the Red Sox wavers with each and every one of these neanderthalic knuckle dragging fellows who claim to love the Red Sox and show their loyalty by attacking their enemies. If only Red Sox Nation could muster the same level of antipathy towards the existential threat of Islamic Terrorism.
Ennuipundit on July 7, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Hey, us Twins fans have been known to frown and even mutter insults under our breath when the Tigers come to town. Why once I even saw a Twins supporter flip the bird to a Royals guy behind his back.
Thats right, don’t mess us Twinkie fans, we are on the verge of riot pretty much all the time.
Bishop on July 7, 2008 at 6:11 PM
oblivious much?
Kaptain Amerika on July 7, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Mexico, Argentina, Columbia and a few other countires come to mind on riots after a soccor game.
Yeah.. not as violent my but.
Oakland for Football…
Quebec for Hockey…
need I go on?
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Must not get all the other games in the world!
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM
What’s to get excited about?
It’s just a bunch of steroid-pumped multi-millionaires in funny clothes hitting a ball with a stick.
In buildings that you & I paid for, buildings that we have to pay again to enter.
jgapinoy on July 7, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Just remember who Uncle Sam is a proxy mascot for, considering his hat…the Yankees. Red Sox fans are anti-American, and being from Boston, probably liberals. I mean, “Sweet Caroline” was written for the daughter of a Kennedy, for God’s sake.
Ok, so I might be exaggerating, but as a Yankees, fan I hate the dirty, classless Red Sox and their fans, many of whom are frontrunners who don’t know how to win with class. They were playing second fiddle to New York for so long, that now that they’re in front, the only chant they know is “Yankees Suck.” Even being in second and third place, Yankee fans, on the road and at home, only start “Let’s go Yankees” chants. We know better than to scream and throw temper tantrums at fans of teams that are worse than us.
Red Sox fans haven’t learned that ability yet.
Seeing as how the Rays are playing, I don’t want to imagine how this guy would have reacted if he’d seen a Florida plate.
jimmy the notable on July 7, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Just don’t throw a greasy fried twinkie at me and all will be good! Or I will have to sic my Polar Bear on you.
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 6:16 PM
I’d never hit a Yankees fan with a bat – or anything really.
But, the Yankees still suck.
nailinmyeye on July 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Those serial killers and rapists caught at home have neighbors who describe them as “nice and quiet”, too.
Sheesh! Boston’s off the “ever want to go visit” vacation historical sight-seeing list unless you rent a local car and wear local logos–too unfriendly to come as you are. Their image was already prickish and rogue with Kennedy corruption–sour grapes, maybe, but chancing an attack for not belonging to the insiders’ club is absolutely not worth finding out the hard way. That the neighbors would stand up for such ugliness in defense instead of apology is the tell. I know, there are wackos everywhere.
Now that I’m thinking vacation, if I’m gonna fly or take a train to a far off destination on the continent, I’d like to visit Alaska or at least as far as the great Northwest or the Highest Rockies again. Go where you can see the Milky Way at night. O, vacation…(Homer salivating).
maverick muse on July 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM
And yes, I’m admitting that the Yankees aren’t the best team in baseball. Its called humility, something Sox fans need to learn.
jimmy the notable on July 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM
I really don’t understand how anyone with the patience to watch a game almost as boring as golf and twice as long, could get violent…
Kaptain Amerika on July 7, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Kaptain Amerika on July 7, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Imbibing every inning?
maverick muse on July 7, 2008 at 6:24 PM
If you think golf is boring, you must have missed this year’s US Open.
Baseball is great because its something that, once the season starts, is there almost every single day, and if you really follow it closely, its at least AS exciting as football.
jimmy the notable on July 7, 2008 at 6:24 PM
What’s with all the baseball haters in this thread?
malan89 on July 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Not a hater. I am a Mariniers Fan… have been for years. Can’t stand A-Rod! That man is the worst damn player there is and why people pay him the big money because he trys to hit every dang ball is beyond me.
So any team he goes to… don’t care for the team.
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Exactly. For some people, excitement = people running into each other. Don’t get me wrong, I like football, but it’s not the only thing that’s exciting. I’ll take Tiger playing 91 holes on a broken leg any day.
Yup, yup, yup. Look at the standings. We’re almost at the All-Star break and about half of the 30 teams are in contention for October. A lot people also “misunderestimate” (Yay! for Bushisms) the skill required to play pro baseball. You start hitting 30% of the 95 MPH fastballs flung at your body and I’ll consider your “baseball is boring” opinion valid.
malan89 on July 7, 2008 at 6:33 PM
I know a bunch of Red Sox fans, and none of them seem inclined to beat other fans with bats. I’m thinking this is not indicative of a wider problem, but rather just an imbecile who happens to root for the local team.
Jaibones on July 7, 2008 at 6:34 PM
I hate baseball, but I keep the rage to a minimum.
SouthernGent on July 7, 2008 at 6:35 PM
I was mostly referring to this:
And this:
malan89 on July 7, 2008 at 6:35 PM
My favorite team is the SPORTS TEAM from CITY NAME.
They’ve been defeating OPPONENT since YEAR FOUNDED!
Dr. Manhattan on July 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM
So sport are not the endeavor of the intellectual, I guess.
TheSitRep on July 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM
D’oh! I’m not saying Sox fans are violent by nature, but they are assholes by nature. See my earlier link. Low, low, low stuff. But not violent.
malan89 on July 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM
That should have read: “Duh”. “D’oh” means something different. Apologies to Simpsons fans.
malan89 on July 7, 2008 at 6:38 PM
AH, gotcha.
Hey you gotta love a fan who goes (when I can) to the games, sits in the cheapest seats, accidentally spills mustand and coke all over themselves and STILL manages to get on ESPN looking like a dork.
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Sumpin just ain’t right with this picture!
This is all about Licence plates being NY,
or thinking the guy was a New York Yankee!
Here’s a thought,remember the discussion about
religious plates,well,if you got some guy thats
a tad over-zealous about his team,
what about the over-zealous nut cake who see’s
a plate with a cross on it,and snaps! jus sayin!
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 6:39 PM
And to park ($10 at Arco Arena) and to buy food….through the nose.
You have summed up why I don’t go to games unless I get the tickets for free–when pro athletes make the same salary as teachers do, then perhaps I will.
Bob's Kid on July 7, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Just got back from Maine where we visited relatives.
You folks don’t understand the fanaticism in New England re the Red Sox.
There’s a day-old bakery in Waterville that has a sign posted that no Yankees fans are welcome within its walls.
They’re nuts, I tell you. Nuts.
But they’re also mostly liberal, so that makes sense.
Mommynator on July 7, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Give me a freaking break. He’s been the youngest player to pretty much every major home run plateau. Assuming he doesn’t get injured, he will probably be the all-time home run leader. Not to mention the fact that he hits for average and can steal bases if he wants to. I can understand if you don’t like him, but you can’t honestly believe he’s a bad baseball player.
jimmy the notable on July 7, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Wow. Well at least we don’t have to worry about this sort of thing with the Texas Rangers. I mean, well, they’re the Rangers. Fans don’t get angry, they just drink themselves to sleep.
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Gotta love New England. Where I’m from, if you mess with our family, religion, or country, you get hurt or worse. Here they’ll do that over baseball, whose teams haven’t any class or natural talent… Makes Mets and Raiders fans look good.
Send_Me on July 7, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Gag!!! And the biggest a-hole since he started as well.
Yes I do believe he is a bad player and a bad sport about games. I remember watching and game which he wasn’t hitting worth CRAP when the Fans caught him swinging wildly in Seattle. It was also about the time he was about to get moved to the Rangers and the press got a wiff of what was going on. He threw the whole damn game because we didn’t “worship” his smug ass.
Yep, I can’t stand that reject… and when he does miss the ball he throws a temper tantrum!
upinak on July 7, 2008 at 6:47 PM
The ones ya really gotta look out for
are those rowdy soccer hooligans!
Heres the equation:
Home team fans all liquored up,their loosing.
Visisting team fans all liquored up, winning
=Riot!
OR,no booze invovled,both team’s hate each others guts!
still = Riot,
and I dislike soccer period!
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 6:49 PM
But there mostly Liberal,so that makes sense.
Mommynator on July 7,2008 at 6:40PM.
Mommynator:Whew,back to Politics(mostly Liberal)Haha. :)
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Red Sox fans are a strange mix of bravado mixed with a life long inferiority complex.
AYNBLAND on July 7, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Hey – all fanatics are the same. I’ve seen a$$holes riot at each championship in whatever city. I had a boss beaten so badly by Jets fans after a game at the Meadowlands that he couldn’t work again – let alone live a normal life. …and if you want to talk about Liberals – I can say as an ex-New Yorker… you never saw one until you’ve seen or talked to one of the city elites – so there goes the Yankees (and they do suck), the Mets, the Jets, the Knicks, the Islanders, etc….
I hate the politics here – but I love our NE teams…and I love Massachusetts (albeit the Communist Commonwealth of Massachusetts… sigh!!)
unaffiliated on July 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Maybe, Arod was boinkin his ol’lady!
AMartinez on July 7, 2008 at 7:03 PM
I don’t think any team has a monopoly on boorish fans.
I was at a Red Sox-Yankees game years ago. There was a young guy, skinny kid, late teens, tops, who was wearing a Boston cap and rooting for the Red Sox. We were in the upper deck, first base line. The Yankee fans around him would chant “Boston sucks” from time to time. The kid took it in good humor and was just cheering for the Sox. A Yankees fan who was getting drunk started getting obnoxious and combative to the kid. The Yankees fan was six-foot-plus and massive. My boyfriend and I saw all this happening and decided to move down to the empty row below us, as the big, drunk fan was right behind us. We tipped the people to the left and right of us to move as well. One listened. The other didn’t.
Sure enough, Yankees Fan went for the kid, rolling over onto our former seats, and onto the woman who thought she would stay put. Security was there within moments, and took the jerk and his foul-mouth girlfriend out. (The incident that drove the jerk over the edge was Sox fan saying to the girl, who was cursing him out, “You kiss your mother with that mouth?”)
And that was after the game where my brother and I had prime seats—behind home plate, corporate box—where the fans in the PRIME SEATS were chanting “Shoot the umpire!” because he made a bad call against the Yankees.
I stopped going to baseball games after that, and frankly don’t care much who wins anymore. I’d rather watch my nephews play Little League. No fights in the stands so far.
Meryl Yourish on July 7, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Face it. Fans basically suck, everywhere.
It used to not be like that.
wccawa on July 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM
I was at a Double A game yesterday in NH and the fans there were clapping for the other team when they made a good play just as much as they were for the local boys. So don’t lump us all together based on some nut from the Bay State. We love our SOX but that guy with the bat…well he even looks nuts in that pix shown of him. And, we’re not all liberals either in case you didn’t know!!!!
jeanie on July 7, 2008 at 7:14 PM
I don’t care how well the Yankees or Red Sox do… most of their fans still live on the East Coast, and thus lose even when their team wins.
Hollowpoint on July 7, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Pin. Head.
baldilocks on July 7, 2008 at 7:43 PM
On another board I visit, someone made a great comment: everybody outside of NYC and Boston is hoping like mad the Rays keep the magic going. Because if Tampa Bay makes the playoffs, that will keep at least one team with insufferable fans out of the postseason.
radjah shelduck on July 7, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Wow – lots of negativity here. Like no one else has aggressive or obnoxious fans. And don’t assume all East Coast’ers are like this one. I’m a conservative trapped in a liberal wasteland.
Cut the east coast some slack.
KrisinNE on July 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Being an Angels fan, I can relate. We’ve been known to gently wave a rally monkey at someone when they weren’t looking.
When the Yankees & Sox are in town, we sell them our season tickets at 5-10 x face value, buy cheap seats, then sit in our own when they get tossed for cursing and throwing peanuts.
peski on July 7, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Recently attended a NECBL (New England College Baseball League) game where the Chinese National Team played the Neene Swamp Bats. It was a great time, much better then my resent visits to Major League games.
Zaire67 on July 7, 2008 at 8:05 PM
I particularly love the parade of people saying that the perp wouldn’t do something “like that.” Hey people, whether or not he did do “that” isn’t in dispute!!!
I would hope that there is more to the story than fan support but, sadly, I expect not.
highhopes on July 7, 2008 at 8:08 PM
I am a Sox fan and have been one all my life even though I’ve never seen them play except on TV and have never been to Boston. One of their pitchers is a guildmate of mine on WoW and I’m sure he would strongly disapprove of this joker and his conduct. This moron should never be allowed into another Sox game in his life for his conduct. Get a life, you loser.
Ceroth on July 7, 2008 at 8:14 PM
So we’re in agreement I see.
Hollowpoint on July 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM
The joke was on him. The guy was a Mets fan.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on July 7, 2008 at 8:29 PM
My Mom is a huge Yankees fan, but also has developed an affection for several of the Sox (Ortiz, Schilling, et al). Some fans actually love the game and respect the players, of whichever team.
Granted, some may call her senile …
mikeyboss on July 7, 2008 at 8:32 PM
I dont get how grown adults can get so out of control over a game. Yea, I was upset when my team lost the World Series (think it was the Orioles, back in B.Robinson’s time), I wanted to cry, but I was 11 years old at the time.
It must be people channeling their pent-up agression and frustration in the only way they can.
As someone said earlier, channel that toward some terrorists!
gxpgxp on July 7, 2008 at 9:05 PM
Save some for the stretch, folks
The guy beat a man with an aluminum baseball bat and you’re snickering?
What kind of human are you?
pabarge on July 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM
As a lifelong fan of the Olde Town Team, I repudiate this kind of behavior.
Little Boomer on July 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM
There has got to be one awesome book you could write out of that agnst. Here in New Orleans, I’m a conservative trapped in a “stuck on stupid” culture. No potential for books, just a grim existence.
highhopes on July 7, 2008 at 9:15 PM
This guy’s got “loser” written all over him. You can tell just by looking at him.
packsoldier on July 7, 2008 at 9:32 PM
I guess you forgot about the Yankees fan who actually killed a Sox fan earlier this year.
SnarkVader on July 7, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Falmouth? Isn’t this the same town where a 14-year-old kid just pushed an old man off the dock because he thought it would be funny?
What the heck is going on in this town? Add Falmouth to the list of places I’ll never visit.
smitgx1 on July 7, 2008 at 9:34 PM
That’s why I’m buying a .40 caliber USP and 6.8 SPC REC7. I’ll put my Military Police training, pistol and assault rifle against your baseball bat, any day. Any ass clown that is going to fight with you over something as asinine and stupid as SPORTS needs to get put away.
Virus-X on July 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Move to Texas while there’s still time. I grew up in CT.
TexasDan on July 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
So what if they are? I’m a congenital Red Sox fan… and I’m so ashamed of these creeps….
darkpixel on July 7, 2008 at 10:24 PM
“This isn’t the fan that I knew.”
darkpixel on July 7, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Baseballism should be a hate crime!
I say we have a demonstration and burn baseball hats!
I say. . ah, It sounded funnier in my head.
- The Cat
MirCat on July 7, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Fair and Balanced
Maybe the Yankees don’t suck, but their fans do. Nuance
P.S. The Yankee clipper cried when he was drafted into the army. Ah! The Curse of the Clipper –
elvis on July 7, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Falmouth is about 20 minutes from me.
I am no Red Sox fan, and this is making me glad I am not. Buncha psychopaths
ToddonCapeCod on July 7, 2008 at 11:21 PM
The dirty little secret is that Cape Cod is full of inbreds.
elvis on July 7, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Sorry, I have had it with the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. I am a DODGER fan, and I HATE the Giants. How about the Chicago Cubs-St. Louis Cardinals? There are other rivalries in baseball. Since the advent of ESPN, we have all but been told that the Red Sox-Yankees are the most important rivalry in all baseball. PLEASE! For the record, good for the Red Sox guy. For the only other team I HATE MORE is the Yankees!
righty64 on July 8, 2008 at 12:52 AM
LOLZ. Try going to a soccer/football match in Poland.
Bring your body armor.
Ares on July 8, 2008 at 6:48 AM
How could baseball end up with violent classless fans considering the stars that it has produced? I can’t imagine! And the especially the Yankees…
sabbott on July 8, 2008 at 8:10 AM
Thank you, I was going to point that out as well.
These idiots think New England has a monopoly on stupid is ludicrous; I’ve been to a lot of major cities (both lib and con) and there is no short supply of arseholes in any of them – especially New York and Philadelphia.
Ciannaky on July 8, 2008 at 8:15 AM
Wow. I was at the Falmouth fireworks and later heard about someone being pulled out of their car and beaten. What a tool this kid is.
Pablo on July 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Typical Red Sox jerk.
kcluva on July 8, 2008 at 10:31 AM
you mean like these classy yankee fans here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwBa3XA3Sl4&feature=related
striper1 on July 8, 2008 at 12:24 PM
The heck with Red Sox/Yankees….the joke here in Chicago(with both the Cubbies and the White Sox in first place) is that the National Guard will need to be called in if there’s a “Cross-Town”World Series.
Speaking as a Cubs fan-I’ll root for the Cardinals before I root for the Sux.
Skankees+White Sux=games that NEVER ends.
Go Cubs Go!!!
Holy Cow!
annoyinglittletwerp on July 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM
This is why I have no interest in watching paint dry.
Who gives a shit?
Baseball?
How about CAIR?
winemkr on July 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM
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