Did Shaun Morash really try to defend the guys who interfered with Mookie Betts?
There’s been mixed reaction in the sports world to the two guys Gio dubbed the ‘Goomba Grabbers’ and their actions Tuesday night, from seeing them as heroes to one Audacy host and former athlete in another market saying ‘they should get their asses kicked.’
Shaun Morash sees both sides…and sees these guys as martyrs?
“Before everybody kills me on this, nobody should ever grab a player or a person's wrist and twist it, and try to break their wrist…but beyond that, when you are a fan and you show up to a big game, you also have a job and an obligation, and that's to help your team win,” Shaun said. “Usually it's with noise or cheering, but I was always under the impression that in Major League Baseball that when a ball comes into my seat and my territory, I got the rights to the ball.”
This isn’t Gleyber’s homer in LA or even Jeffrey Maier, to Shaun – it’s fair game in the seats?
“When the ball pops up in the air, I’m fighting for that ball. You’re thinking, how good is the camera work here? Crowd of guys around me, I wanna make sure I dislodge this ball, and who knows what happens? Maybe the Dodgers get screwed out of it,” Shaun continued. “If he pries it and pops it loose…we complain every single day and every single week in every sport about how bad officiating is and how calls get missed – how does he know in real time that if I pop this loose, they’re not gonna get screwed? The Dodgers could have gotten screwed, even if it's a 10 percent chance. He laid it all out there for the Yankees, and you know what else he did? Now, for the rest of last night, Mookie Betts had to think twice about that corner.”
Evan and Tiki were audibly incredulous at Shaun’s idea as he said the perpetrator ‘deserves to have his number retired too, and it’s about time we started acting like Philadelphia.’
“If it happened in football, he’d get his ass beat. I love it when people are streaking on the field and football players just jack them up,” Tiki said. “Now it’s harder than it used to be, because you don't wanna get sued, but you don't touch me also.”
Shaun then felt guilty as he felt Suzyn Waldman ‘staring daggers’ at him from the booth, and yeah, Evan admits that he laughed about the incident, mostly because ‘I could not get over the absurdity of it.’
“The thing that loses me is that this was a plan that him and his buddy have been sitting there waiting for a decade, waiting for the moment to interfere with a player and knock the ball out,” Evan said, “but here’s the unfortunate thing: this didn’t affect the game, so to me, it’s more of a comical side note than something that affected the World Series. But for 25 minutes, I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen before, until I realized that the guy was a complete jackass. What an unbelievable moment that we all got to witness.”
