Brian Mitchell was watching last night when two fans tried to literally rip the ball out of Mookie Betts’ glove as he caught a foul ball in Game 4 of the World Series – and he came in today HOT about it.
“I think fans like that, and people are now celebrating this idiot, they need their asses kicked. Because what if, by grabbing him, he messed his shoulder up or something,” B said, coming out hot immediately. “Fans, you can cheer, but when you start touching people, you got a problem. I have always respected fans, but I think any time you touch a player, that player should be allowed to beat the hell out of you. It was absolutely ridiculous what he did, and then the other little idiot next to him was trying and when he realized we're about to lose our stuff, he quickly pulled his hands off of him – but the other dude should never be able to go to a sporting event again in his damn life.”
The identities of the two fans, who were ejected from Yankee Stadium, are out there, as is their side of the story – and maybe it will soothe Brian’s soul a bit to know that later in the show, the Yankees released a statement saying the two fans would not be allowed in the stadium tonight.
JP read some of ESPN’s story on the guys, which is just even more ludicrous to look at in print, and Brian had an idea when JP finished with their quote that ‘both of us were willing to do this.’
“And both of them should be willing to never ever attend another Yankees game, or any MLB game, and other sports should say you can't come to our games, either,” Brian said. “If they allow them back, and those same guys do something else, how does that look to MLB?”
“You know me, and I imagine hundreds of thousands, millions of people had the exact same thought, that the fact that it was immediately ruled an out made me so freaking mad, and took me back to 1996 when that little weasel twerp dork, Jeffrey Maier, reached over the wall and took a fly ball out of Tony Tarasco’s glove in the ALCS against the Orioles that became a Derek Jeter home run,” JP, who we know is an Orioles fan, brought up, still salty 28 years later. “Where the hell was the call and the ump that night?
But, that situation, as upsetting as it understandably is to Orioles fans, didn’t involve a fan physically assaulting Tarasco, which this one did.
“They always talk about the integrity of the game. The leagues have changed things a lot to make sure they don't have to deal with that – but these little fools, I’m not gonna be happy about it, because if I was playing a game and somebody was just like that, I'm gonna have some issues,” Brian said. “But what if Mookie Betts had done something? Would MLB be trying to fine him? Would everybody be mad at Mookie Betts? Every time a player responds to stupidity, the player is supposed to be so under control all the way to the end, when coaches are never that way, fans are never that way? I just have issues with that.”
“I get it,” JP replied, “and if Mookie had punched one of them or something, it would have been fine by me, frankly.”
What did Jeff Walker, Yankees fan, think?
“Not at all,” Jeff said when asked if he supports it. “It's just crazy because, you know how they always paint the crooks and sleazy people of New York? He looked like he should have been like one of the thieves in Home Alone! He just looked like an overall sleazy guy, and if I wasn’t watching the game and saw the film, I would think it was staged.”
“Yeah, he looks like central casting of the Yankees fan that would harass a Dodgers outfielder trying to catch the ball,” JP laughed, and then asked Jeff if he apologized for Jeffrey Maier…