You know this guy lives for this stuff

[dclary]

Ok, you ever go to a major league ballgame?

You know how between innings and side-changes, the security staff comes out and just stands there, about ten yards apart, ten yards from the stands, just standing there?

Why do you think these guys take a job like that?



I bet it's for the chance to do this: a 9th-inning special at Dodger Stadium yesterday.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070708/capt.2d325661df904ad9911cadd276b005e1.marlins_dodg ers_baseball_lad111.jpg


Of course, Mr. Voice comes up during the handcuffing ceremony with "Fans, please remember that interrupting the game or throwing objects onto the field is subject to penalties up to and including expulsion from the stadium, fines, and arrest."

That was one of 2 guys who tried that yesterday. The other guy was funnier but I don't have a pic.

[Jersey Chick]

I remember when they used to show things like that on a televised game - y'know, the fool who runs out onto the field and gets tackled by 12 security guys. In the 1980s, there was Morgana, the kissing bandit. She'd hop the fence and run up to various baseball players and kiss them.

Then they stopped showing it, to keep people from imitating it - guess that really worked, eh?

[benbradley]

I recall many years ago, I used to listen to Braves games on the radio and this happened a few times. The radio announcer said there's a minumum penalty of one day in jail, so the offender has overnight to think about his/her actions.

[Stew21]

Then they stopped showing it, to keep people from imitating it - guess that really worked, eh?

So network tv won't show fans streaking or running onto the playing field to kiss a player, or whatever they are going to do so other people won't copy it and do it too, but network TV will run a continuous loop of Seung-Hui Cho and his video before a mass murder?

Holy Shit is that screwed up.

[Jersey Chick]

Personally, I think the takedowns on the ball field are far more entertaining and (for the most part) relatively harmless - guess that's why it isn't "good television"

BTW - I heard that the old Vet Stadium, in Philly, had it's own courtroom and jail cell underneath the stadium, because the crowds tended to get **ahem** unruly.

[dclary]

Just look at the attention to detail -- I mean, the camera guy got this perfect... The dirt kicked up from his dragging foot, the forearm shiv into the face. Fantastic action shot that he couldn't possibly have been put into position to shoot on purpose, right?

[jst5150]

Fantastic action shot that he couldn't possibly have been put into position to shoot on purpose, right?

And don't forget thew words "good stuff" frames so fancily along side the assault.

Of course, if the Bums were still under Fox ownership, this incident would be a 4-part reality show debuting next week.

jt

[PattiTheWicked]

Is that Paulie Walnuts tackling the guy, or is it just a trick of the light?

[Chumplet]

I remember a Calgary Flames game when a guy ran onto the ice wearing only red socks. He slipped and hit his head on the ice and lay face up, in all his glory for a few seconds before security got to him. He was out cold.

If he'd fallen face down, they would've needed a cup of warm water and a spatula to get him off the ice.

[dclary]

And don't forget thew words "good stuff" frames so fancily along side the assault.

Of course, if the Bums were still under Fox ownership, this incident would be a 4-part reality show debuting next week.

jt
BUMS?!?!?!?!?

:rant:

[jst5150]

Dave, do your Dodger history. :-) Even as I sit next to my Sandy Koufax autographed baseball, I'm proud that my team was once known as bums and trolley dodgers. :-)

[dclary]

The Dodgers didn't exist before LA, unless you're Tommy Lasorda. Then you have all sorts of crazy memories of them existing in some LaLa land to the far east, where they played rival teams like the NY Giants and got ridiculed for letting black people play.

But he's crazy.

[ChunkyC]

I remember a Calgary Flames game when a guy ran onto the ice wearing only red socks. He slipped and hit his head on the ice and lay face up, in all his glory for a few seconds before security got to him. He was out cold.

If he'd fallen face down, they would've needed a cup of warm water and a spatula to get him off the ice.
I think I remember that guy. What a loon. No way would I hang my johnson out where Wayne Gretzky could skate over it. ;)

[Jersey Chick]

The visuals are giving me the giggles! Thank God I don't have a beverage :)

[robeiae]

I think I remember that guy. What a loon.
It was KTC, wasn't it?

Too many Tim Hortons...

[Silver King]

The whole thing is exaggerated. Clearly, the man tripped over his shoelaces and ran into the kid by accident.

[Chumplet]

Remember the soccer game where the British constable held his Bobby Hat over the streaker's wee wee?

[Joe270]

Ah, the baseball establishment loves this stuff.

I only went to one professional ball game--the Yankees at Yankee stadium. Thank god I was in the balcony because it was 'bat night', a bunch of people threw out souvenir bats, those ten inch long fish bats.

Utter mayhem broke out. Folks caught the bats, and in a continuing motion began beating the other people around them with wanton abandon. One of the most memorable sights I've ever seen. Thank the lord I was in the cheap seats.

[pconsidine]

The Dodgers didn't exist before LA, unless you're Tommy Lasorda. Then you have all sorts of crazy memories of them existing in some LaLa land to the far east, where they played rival teams like the NY Giants and got ridiculed for letting black people play.

But he's crazy.Man, you're damn lucky you're 3000 miles away, talking like that. My dad might be ancient, but he would still kick yer butt for badmouthing his beloved Brooklyn Bums.

Speaking of which, there's a song by Danny Kaye called about the Dodgers when they first moved out to L.A. It's kinda funny, in a vintage sort of way. I'll send it your way if I can find it. :)

[dclary]

LOL, I know.

When we did our Colonial America summer 2 years ago, we took a midnight flight out -- immediately from a ballgame at Dodger stadium.

That next morning in Alexandria, we ate breakfast in some pancake house where our server was an elderly gentleman easily in his 70s. We were wearing our Dodger regalia, and he reminisced fondly with us his experiences with them in Brooklyn.

We left our ticket stubs with the tip.

[BenPanced]

Ok, you ever go to a major league ballgame?

You know how between innings and side-changes, the security staff comes out and just stands there, about ten yards apart, ten yards from the stands, just standing there?

Why do you think these guys take a job like that?



I bet it's for the chance to do this: a 9th-inning special at Dodger Stadium yesterday.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070708/capt.2d325661df904ad9911cadd276b005e1.marlins_dodg ers_baseball_lad111.jpg


Of course, Mr. Voice comes up during the handcuffing ceremony with "Fans, please remember that interrupting the game or throwing objects onto the field is subject to penalties up to and including expulsion from the stadium, fines, and arrest."

That was one of 2 guys who tried that yesterday. The other guy was funnier but I don't have a pic.
Reminds me of the last time I tried to pick some guy up at a bar. The yelling, the screaming tackle, the cleats, the lawsuit...good times.