A preventable tragedy too, brought on by a bunch of morons.
Why do people keep blaming the fans for that poor woman’s death? The police killed her.
I was wondering if the OP had forgotten the Yankee Stadium boos of Jeter during the regular season (not the post-season, which is more important - the regular season). Granted, he was batting something like .00000001 at the time, but that’s no reason for the auto-booing. ISTR him saying that even his parents were catching shit for his sub-par plate performance.
Link for those who hadn’t seen the story.
Please tell me you’re joking.
A weekend with my father-in-law (A-Typical glassy-eyed-frothed-mouth-voracious - Yankee Fan) has brought me to new depths. I apologize, again, my condolences to the woman’s family.
Uh… somebody else shot the pepper spray?
I’m not going to say it was the police who were at fault, it was a tragic accident. Blaming Red Sox fans is disingenuous at best.
I’m not even blaming the fans, I’m blaming the idiots that necessitated having pepperballs shot at the crowd. They created the situation in which the freak accident occurred.
I thought that was a Philadelphia speciality, like cheese steaks.
Yep, just a few years ago in 1968. Why it’s still brought up so frequently, I don’t know.
He said “gew years”, not “few years”. Everyone knows “gew” is an old Amish call to fornicate, occuring in 36 year multiples.
The people who I hear bring this up the most are usually Philly fans themselves. IME, they revel in it, in a whole “We’re so fuckin’ bad, we booed Santa, don’t fuck with us” way.
Not joking so much as “stating the facts” as seen when one takes off the sour grape-colored glasses.
The BOSTON POLICE admitted fault. Good enough for me.
Look where? On a milk carton, after you get stomped into constituent atoms?
Much better response than I likely would have come up with.
Dang. I thought it was much more recent than that, based on, well, based on how bloody often everyone brings it up.
Nevertheless, having been to more than a few, or gew, Phillies games during the 1999-2002 period, and having heard what apparently happened to Billy Wagner earlier this season, I contend that the only way Santa could avoid getting booed again would be if he could keep his fastball consistently above 100 mph.
As to why the story lives on, I guess it’s one of them cultural shorthand things, like the supposed love the French have for old Jerry Lewis movies. Which, come to think of it, is complete bullshit as well.