If so, contact the CPD immediately. He will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
This man is clearly a criminal, the type who would drop you during a keg stand. I bet cheats in beer pong. He probably stole those sunglasses from someone's girlfriend, too. Surely, no man would buy those.
What happened last night is an embarrassing moment for the Cubs, their fans, and the city. But it's hardly surprising. As anyone who has spent a night in the Wrigley bleachers the last few years knows, baseball takes a backseat to partying. That's not to say that fans at White Sox games are discussing defensive zone ratings and the merits of WARP, but still. It's just a different atmosphere on the North Side, one that's beginning to tarnish the stadium, the fanbase, and the organization.
We can't let a few bad apples ruin it for all, though. How does Wrigley maintain it's buzz vibe while cutting out incidents like the one that happened last night? I do not know, for I am just a lowly blogger. Perhaps the vendors have to start using better judgment on when a fan is over-served.
The problem with what happened last night is that it throws all fans under a blanket. Remember when William Ligue and his loyal 15-year old son jumped the US Cellular walls and proceeded to beat Tom Gamboa? After that, every Sox fan was white trash, the kind that would quote Limp Bizkit on their Myspace page. Of course, that is not true. All Cubs fans aren't cut from the same loser frat boy mold, either. We need to remember these are isolated cases, not the norm.
But this does need to stop. No more puking in the stands, no more drunken fights during the game. While you're at it, you can halt the racist t-shirts, too. I thought North Siders were supposed to bleed Cubbie blue, not pre-game vodka.
Ricky O'Donnell is the founder of the Chicago sports blog Tremendous Upside Potential - which you should read every day - and one of the editors of the Sun-Times' fantasy blog. Contact him at richardpodonnell@gmail.com.
Ricky - I am dying!!! That Fall Guy looks like Jared Fogel or a heavy Steve Bartman!!!! um hurtin!!!
I am not that mad at the kid who threw the beer, but the fact that Jon Gosselin is away from the kids AGAIN...
Ricky reponds: He would.
Keith, LOL! I thought exactly the same thing about the fall guy. He took the fall I'm sure in large part because he was being profiled!
yeah, fat Bartman needed to go....Andy Frain did good... and sportsmanship...overrated; 101 years of futility makes this acceptable
It should be a tradition like throwing the opposing team's HR's back....only now...we got home field advantage going on
ok, it was low rent....but Andy Frain did their job well nonetheless...screw Bartman
Talk about grouping people together "the same loser frat boy mold"...
In just about the same breathe you wag your finger at stereotyping Cubs fans and then make the same mistake by grouping every fraternity memeber together, embarassing.
Ricky responds: Good point.
Ricky, I love the intentional word edit for all the world to see. My dad and I were talking about how it's getting more and more difficult for a man to bring his family of four or five to a game as it easily becomes a $200.00 siphon. He mentioned something I hadn't realized, "At least The Cell has a lot of attractions for kids who really couldn't care less about the game on the field, especially if the game begins to drag itself out." I haven't been to Wrigley in at least 15 years, but it would seem that there really isn't much for kids to do unless they really enjoy watching the the guy manually change the numbers on the scoreboard. Then, add to that that it's falling apart, a dump, and has a decent share of cussing drunkards who manage to throw stuff on the field whenever things don't go their way. I can't imagine what kind of positive experience it would be for a lot of kids.
Keith as usual you're right ontop of things. As for the comment that Wrigley has nothing to keep bored kids occupied; it's one of two original parks left in the league and was built before parks were turned into all purpose amusement parks.
Regardless of whether an incident like that occurs at Wrighley or any other ball park those type of actions should be dealt with severly not just ejection from the game.
BTW I will kost likely not be posting anything until around Sept.1st because in about 12 hours I will be leaving North Carolina and heading to N.W. Indiana for a couple weeks for a couple of reunions and my oldest son has gotten us tickets to the Cubs/Pirates game Sunday directly behind home plate on the rail of the upper deck. I promise I will not dump any beer on the home plate ump regardless of any calls I may disagree with LOL.
Noticed just as I hit send there was a typo in my previous post. That should read "most likely" not "kost Likely". And it's not that I won't have internet access but more because I'll be too busy visiting people I haven't seen since I left Indiana in 2003.
Remember when William Ligue and his loyal 15-year old son jumped the US Cellular walls and proceeded to beat Tom Gamboa? After that, every Sox fan was white trash.
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Hey Ricky, this didn't happen in White Sox Park - or The Cell, okay?
Just because some Cubs' fan go and do something stupid as usual, don't mean you get to bring up the White Sox dirty laundry. The Cubs have enough examples of their own.
Please use them! And no I will not named them, it is too many to list.
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That's not to say that fans at White Sox games are discussing defensive zone ratings and the merits of WARP.
As stated above, this is about Cub Fans, not White Sox Fans! Amazing what a Cubs' fan will do to deflect attention away from them!! We are discussing how big of LOSERS the Cubs are and their loser fans. Okay?
Ricky responds: Um, I was raised a White Sox fan, but there is such a thing as being fair and objective. Okay? I think I hit the Cubs pretty hard on this post.
"Perhaps the vendors have to start using better judgment on when a fan is over-served."
You shouldn't accuse anyone of committing a crime unless you have true evidence. There is no way for you to know if this jerk was "over-served" or not.
The Cubs are about to get swept by the Phillies at home in what was supposed to be a crucial series and a good barometer of how far or close the Cubs are to win it all this year and this is the bigger headlines of discussion? This pretty much just proved WRD's comments over the Patrick Kane blog post.... stupidity apparently does sell to news readers.
I don't know the guy who threw the beer and certainly think such behavior is adolescent and inexcusable, but sympathy regarding the frustration it illustrates is probably widespread. The Cubs have not been fun to watch lately. They can't hit, they can't hold a lead, they make silly errors in the field, and in base-running, and mental errors are all to prvalent. One can only hope that they turn things around very quickly, or this season will be another debacle when it's all over.Bradley,Baker,and Theriot seem to be the only ones giving maximum effort. I cannot fathom why players like Lee Soriano, and Soto can lose any semblance of offense so quickly.Ah well, it's not like disappointment is a new thing regarding the Cubs, and certainly I hope they pull off a terrific resurgence, but I'm afraid I'm about to start focussing on the Bears.
I just love when Cubs fans bring up the Ligue idiots but leave out the fact that they spent that afternoon getting hammered at Wrigley before they headed to the Sox game.
Spin it Cub fans!
I just love when Cubs fans bring up the Ligue idiots but leave out the fact that they spent that afternoon getting hammered at Wrigley before they headed to the Sox game.
Spin it Cub fans!
His name is John Macchione of Bartlett. He gives Cub fans a bad name.
what a waste of beer.....
Dude is 21 and wearing a cub sweatband on his right wrist...nuff said
I think that Tony Dungy should counsel this lad.
You ever been to Philly? They throw more than beer at you. On top
of that, they throw actual Cheese Whiz on cheap meat and call it cheese steak? That is a crime. Victorino is one of the biggest a%%h%%%s in the game, of course he is going to press charges.
I think the Cubs should throw at his head next time they play
just for that.
Ricky, you intentionally mislead readers by trying to compare
Whitesox fans, and bleacher fans making the game 'secondary'
to partying. When was the last time you saw enough Sox fans in the cheapseats, to consider it partying? blehhhhhhhh.
Okay. What about 20th over here?
Hey William - I am dying!!! What's funny is that I have checked all of the blogs looking for your posts. I am rolling! And something like this is totally out of character for you. Got me rolling!
It was a slow weekend Keith. I can be silly and immature with the best of them.