9.16.2004

The Chair Throwing Ranger Reliever

I don't know how big the news was outside of Oakland where it happened the other day but, during a baseball game, a player saw fit to huck a folding chair into the crowd. He was unfortunate enough to clock a woman square in the face with it. Her nose got broken and she had blood pouring forth.

Said reliever, one Frank Francisco, was subsequently arrested for assault and battery or whatever.

And yeah, he should have not been throwing chairs into the crowd, that's just plain stupid. But I don't think enough has been discussed about the time leading up to the altercation.

The woman's husband is a heckler. Which is just a slightly more polite way of saying that he's a loud mouthed asswipe who goes to baseball games almost solely to berate, belittle and run his big fat stupid mouth off at people who aren't supposed to react. In other words, he's an asshole pussy who pretends to be picking fights with people he knows won't fight him.

Heckling baseball players just means you're a douchebag. Spending your time verbally assaulting players is an abject demonstration of what a fucking waste of space you are.

Sure, his wife didn't deserve to get hit by a flying chair. I would hazard a guess that, with a loud mouthed cowardly asswipe for a husband, its not the first time she's taken a hit.

Hecklers are the offline version of trolls, losers who spend thier time online by going to sites and baiting people with nonsense that's usually racist, gender biased, politically charged or whatever, they live to be the itch that can't be scratched. They are complete and utter wanks who should be packed tightly into a missile and exiled to live on the sun.

There is good natured heckling, there's a way to do it and not be an ass. But Frank Francisco hadn't even started warming up, he wasn't in the game, he was sitting on the bench and watching and this lady's husband just wouldn't SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP! I'm sure that there was a part of everyone near that guy who wished he'd been the one who took the chair in the face. Hecklers ruin the game for everyone around them.

Oh boy, and now they are going to interview Mr. Heckler on the news this morning. This ought to be interesting. I'm sure he'll be all contrite and innocent like there was absolutely no reason for the guy to fly off the handle. Ahh, they're making me wait, I'll update this when they finally get around to rolling his righteous fury ass out. I wonder how long it will be until he starts talking about the lawsuit, I'll say under two minutes.

[Update: He's on, his name is Craig Bueno, he's been thoroughly coached, he's in a suit, he's quiet, he's playing his cards properly. And he wasn't even heckling Francisco, he was heckling Cordero about his weight. What a hell of a guy? "Hey fattie, hey fattie, how about some pizza? How about a cheeseburger?" Wow! He's a great guy. Yeah, he looks like a prick. I don't think his wife deserved to get clocked like she did but I'm pretty sure he was truly behaving like an utter assmonkey. Who picks on anyone because of their weight? Um, especially when you're wife who you are sitting next to might just be considered to have a little bit of a weight problem. Are you yelling at him because you can't yell at her? Are you displacing your unhappiness?

Who gives a damn. Heckling is what losers do. Craig, sorry about your wife but you're an asshole who should probably just shut the hell up when you're at the ball park.]

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