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More Fun with Yankee Security

Another notable incident occurred about midway through the game when a veteran Bleacher Creature named Larry was violently ejected from the stadium for telling 258 pound Yankee right-hander Sidney Ponson to “eat a salad.” Ponson laughed it off. Rude cheers from the bleachers are a Bronx baseball tradition and the Creatures are a Yankee Stadium fixture. Fans grumbled about “freedom of speech” as Larry was carried away by cops and stadium security. Larry begged the cops to reconsider pointing out that he hadn’t cursed at Ponson.

It does not matter whether you are a Creature, whether your Heckle is original, whether your Heckle-Target takes offense or if you swore or not, if you dare insult the boys in pinstripes, you will have to answer to the Steinbrenner Stasi!

Tip Of the Hat to Deadspin.

Gamingboy Posted: September 22, 2008 at 11:10 PM | 7 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
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1. Phil Coorey, You Won't Posted: September 22, 2008 at 11:13 PM (#2950520)

Seriously - is this true? If so - wow.

2. Gamingboy Posted: September 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM (#2950579)

No way of confirming, but it seems like one of those things so absurd it could be true. Nobody could make something like that up.

3. alskor Posted: September 23, 2008 at 05:23 AM (#2950941)

Oh, it doesnt matter. Those people wont be able to afford even a Dry Chardonnay - never mind bleacher seats - at the new stadium.

Might as well start kicking them out now. They should also move the roll call to the 3rd inning - that way the fans arriving fashionably late will be able to participate... though they'll almost certainly choose not to.

4. Van Lingle Mungo Jerry Posted: September 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM (#2951043)

Might as well start kicking them out now.

It's precisely this kind of attitude that paved the way for the KKK and the Holocaust, sir.

5. Gamingboy Posted: September 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM (#2951047)

Mungo, I used the Stasi instead of Gestapo specifically to avoid Godwin's law. Then you had to go and mention the Holocaust. Thanks a lot.

6. Van Lingle Mungo Jerry Posted: September 23, 2008 at 01:15 PM (#2951069)

Sorry, GB, I had just finished catching up on the Brattain/Bonds thread and felt inspired.

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