At rare moments like this, Jerry Remy is the right guy to have in the booth. Here's a short clip:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B5qWMROQlMk

Longer versions also available.

Ok, this is very funny:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VuN7hmlQrkw&mode=related&search;=

They made the victim the Pepsi fan of the game and splashed the graphic on him while he was cussing out the guy who threw the pizza.

It’s been my dream to catch one. That’s the closest I’ve ever come. The pizza just thwarted it.

Except that the ball had bounced off his hand onto the field roughly two seconds before the pizza was thrown. Never let the truth get in the way of a good excuse for dropping a foul ball...

I agree with #1.

Thanks for the clips. Kids, it doesn't pay to go to the games; you miss all the good stuff.

But what started as a disagreement in the stands became the most entertaining moment of yesterday’s 7-2 Red Sox [team stats] victory over the Angels.

A bunch of drunken fans dropping their beers and throwing food is the highlight of an MLB game? I realize that sports reporters become jaded and tired with covering a full season, but that fat John Popper looking ############ should leave the pressbox forever if he found a food fight in the stands entertaining. I am surprised Tomase wasn't crying at the loss of an innocent slice.

This bit was all over the local sports yesterday and I couldn't understand it.

I've never seen a video so perfectly capture a fan base as that.

If only there were such courageous fans in Chicago, the Cubs would have made the Series in 2003.

I've never seen a video so perfectly capture a fan base as that.

Yes. Note how many weren't throwing pizza.

A bunch of drunken fans dropping their beers and throwing food is the highlight of an MLB game? I realize that sports reporters become jaded and tired with covering a full season, but that fat John Popper looking ############ should leave the pressbox forever if he found a food fight in the stands entertaining. I am surprised Tomase wasn't crying at the loss of an innocent slice.

This bit was all over the local sports yesterday and I couldn't understand it.

If I ever don't find a man spontaneously throwing a slice of pizza at another fan funny and entertaining, kill me immediately.

The pizza throw was kind of funny, Remy was kind of lame but about what you'd expect, but I find Orsillo's incessant giggling almost unbearable. Watching him is like watching Jimmy Fallon ruin sketch after sketch of SNL by laughing.

Watching him is like watching Jimmy Fallon ruin sketch after sketch of SNL by laughing.

I find Jerry Remy's banter to be a lot funnier* than nearly anything on SNL that featured Jimmy Fallon. Maybe that's why Fallon always irritated me more than Orsillo.

* That says more about Jimmy Fallon than it does about Jerry Remy.

I thought it was a riot. But I don't take my self very seriously.

But Fallon overlapped with Ferrell quite a bit, meaning that Fallon was often ruining sketches that would have otherwise been excellent.

Except that the ball had bounced off his hand onto the field roughly two seconds before the pizza was thrown. Never let the truth get in the way of a good excuse for dropping a foul ball...

It was actually the guy next to him that it bounced opff of. I don't think he ever got a hand on it. It would have been a tough play for either of them, since they were both holding beers.

I thought it was funny as hell. You could see the guy laughing after it was over, talking to his friends about it on his cell as they were evidently watching at home.

I love the look on the other guy's face as his beer is sloshing all over him. He looks crushed.

If I were the guy who got hit by the pizza, I think I'd be more pissed that I just lost about half of my $6 or whatever beer on the foul ball play!

There is no excuse for spilling a beer.

On a tangential note, the one time I was at Fenway I saw a guy 10 rows from me catch a foul ball with an empty beer cup. He just stuck it up and and ball was swallowed up by the cup.

Wasn't it when Sheff had that run-in with a fan at Fenway, that one of the fans who reached over for the ball didn't spill his beer? And that the announcers made a note of how awesome that was on national television?

It was a pretty sweet effort, as I recall. Guy reaches all the way over the wall and manages to invert his beer while doing so, balancing it perfectly, and doesn't spill a drop.

I love the faux-tough posturing after the pizza throw. Man, I miss when I was 18 and worried if I looked cool.

This is the greatest thing that has ever happened at a professional sporting event.

On a tangential note, the one time I was at Fenway I saw a guy 10 rows from me catch a foul ball with an empty beer cup. He just stuck it up and and ball was swallowed up by the cup.

I caught a foul ball at Fenway, using my hat. There were no empty beers in my proximity.

The youtube clips are fine and all, but they all feature a spelling error - per Remy it's "petezer," not "pizza."

But I don't take my self very seriously.

Doesn't this lower the Standards somewhat?

the standards are pretty damn low at this point.

That guy should have avoided the Noid.

The Noid!!! That takes me back.

A bunch of drunken fans dropping their beers and throwing food is the highlight of an MLB game?

Yeah, 'tard. The game was frickin' over in the first inning, so it was the most interesting part of the game.

I have no problem with people finding it amusing, but the attention given to it was absurd. One of the local stations did a silly CSI take on it.

And yes, even in a game that was 6-1 in the first there are more interesting things happening than two idiots trying to act like tough guys.

i really miss jerry remy. he's a damned fine color guy, and he fits the team so awesomely.

I love the faux-tough posturing after the pizza throw. Man, I miss when I was 18 and worried if I looked cool.

It may not be too late for you. The article says the guy is 30. Of course, you lose about three or four years of maturity with each beer you drink, so I guess he'd managed to finish four beers before he spilled that last one.

Why must Boston fans continue to waste food and drink by flinging them at players and each other? Sally Struthers would be appalled.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VuN7hmlQrkw&mode=related&search;=

Holy crap that's funny. I laughed until there were tears.

"He's been asked to leave the ballpark for ruining a perfectly good slice of pizza."

"He's been ejected from the ballpark and will never again be allowed to buy pizza."

Apparently this is right up my alley comedy-wise. I haven't been to Primer in months - glad I came by today.

Funny Stuff

Funny stuff.

I note, however, that Anderson was prevented from catching the ball in foul territory and making an out because the fans were in the way. As I said after the Bartman incident, I will never understand why the rules developed so as to allow fans to have an impact upon the game in this way.

Hey mate, did you get my email?

I was eating humble pie after the big blades win over the Hammers.

Bad luck about the cricket, but I never understood the make up of that team from the start. Vaughn is truly a shocking one day player.

Maybe I'm just not there maturity-wise, but I was LMAO......

I'm just glad he didn't throw the pizza at a Korean guy

It's funny just because it's so random. I can see fans throwing trash at a fan, but I'm trying to imagine this guy thinking, "God dammit, I'm so gosh-darn mad... I'm gonna throw my pizza at this guy! Yeah!"

Bizzare.

"As I said after the Bartman incident, I will never understand why the rules developed so as to allow fans to have an impact upon the game in this way."

It's not so much a case of things developing that way, as it is a case of things always having been that way, and us just not remembering it. The best instance of fan interference that I've ever encountered was in a game recap from about a hundred years ago: Late in a tie game, batter hits one into the corner, outfielder pursues... fan pulls a pistol on him, and keeps him (and the other outfielders) covered until the batter comes around to score on an inside-the-park job.

This wasn't a case of fan interference. The ball was hit into the stands. This was player interference.

This wasn't a case of fan interference. The ball was hit into the stands. This was player interference.

Yes, and that's the absurdity of it. Players can record an out, but they have to dive into the stands to do it, and the fans can prevent them from doing this, thus changing the course of the game. they are not participants, but can have an influence on what goes on in the game. To me, that is a shortcoming in the rules, daredevil dives into the stand by Jeter notwithstanding.

This was player interference.

Which if I remember right is punishable by pizzaing. I guess we know who the pizza was intended to hit now.

Richard - the alternative is not allowing players to make plays where the ball is traveling into the stands. You can't mandate fans move from the area of their seat or not defend themselves from incoming projectiles.

I much prefer it this way that the alternative.

It's funny just because it's so random. I can see fans throwing trash at a fan, but I'm trying to imagine this guy thinking, "God dammit, I'm so gosh-darn mad... I'm gonna throw my pizza at this guy! Yeah!"

Bizzare.

My first thought was the end of Austin Powers: "Who throws a shoe? Honestly!"

Richard - the alternative is not allowing players to make plays where the ball is traveling into the stands. You can't mandate fans move from the area of their seat or not defend themselves from incoming projectiles.

I much prefer it this way that the alternative.

Or another alternative could have been to build all walls high enough to prevent player and fan meeting, though this would be highly impractical. Bartman type incidents are relatively rare, but I just find them unsatisfactory.

Bartman wasn't unsatisfactory. That donkey yankee kid was unsatisfactory.

Or another alternative could have been to build all walls high enough to prevent player and fan meeting, though this would be highly impractical.

I think that McCoy Field in Pawtucket is like this.

Mr. Kelly - I don't use the word 'hero' lightly, but you are the greatest hero in American history.

As I said after the Bartman incident, I will never understand why the rules developed so as to allow fans to have an impact upon the game in this way.

In the old days, you used to have fans on the field of play.

Or another alternative could have been to build all walls high enough to prevent player and fan meeting, though this would be highly impractical. Bartman type incidents are relatively rare, but I just find them unsatisfactory.

That's the way it is in Japan, and just about everyone is arguing that they should make it like MLB.

I think that McCoy Field in Pawtucket is like this.

Unless you have a milk carton and some string.

My first thought was the end of Austin Powers: "Who throws a shoe? Honestly!"

Nice.

"The best instance of fan interference that I've ever encountered was in a game recap from about a hundred years ago: Late in a tie game, batter hits one into the corner, outfielder pursues... fan pulls a pistol on him, and keeps him (and the other outfielders) covered until the batter comes around to score on an inside-the-park job."

Holy crap. That's fantastic.

I think that McCoy Field in Pawtucket is like this.

It's not so much high walls as a low field. Six of one, I suppose. Still, you can interact with left and center fielders as well as bullpen pitchers - verbally, not physically - if you sit out on the grassy "berm" area behind the left field fence.

There's another old-time story of a ball rolling under a horse that was harnessed to a carriage in the outfield. The horse was frightened by the player attempted to get in his feet to grab the ball and tried to stomp him every time he went for the ball. The baserunners went wild...

if this had been a Sox fielder trying to make a play, then the whole section should have dumped their food/drinks on the guy.

my fenway nightmare is that the sox are down by 1 late in the game with a guy on first and the batter hits a double down the right field line which would score the runner except some nitwit, in a Stewart O'Nan-like display of ball hogging, reaches and grabs the ball which forces the runner to stop at third. If you can afford a $50 ticket, you can drop $10 down at Dick's sports to get your own damn ball.

"Holy crap. That's fantastic."

Yeah, it's a pretty good one. I wish I could remember who the outfielder was.

My all-time favorite game recap, bar none (cribbed from BaseballLibrary.com):

"Jul 17, 1914 - At Forbes Field‚ Rube Marquard and Babe Adams each go a marathon 21 innings before Larry Doyle's 2-run HR gives the Giants a 3-1 win over the Pirates. Adams yields no walks and 12 hits‚ the longest non-walk game in ML history. Marquard walks 2 (one intentional) and yields 15 hits. In the 6th‚ Honus Wagner goes from first to 3B on a hit by Jim Viox. When New York CF Bob Bescher throws to 3B Milt Stock‚ the ball bounces out of his hands and disappears. Wagner scores before it's discovered that the ball bounced up under his arm and stayed there as he ran home. Wagner is called out for interference‚ and the Bucs protest. Manager Clarke is then ejected by umpire Bill "Lord" Byron. In a fitting ending to this unusual game‚ Giants OF Red Murray is knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning after catching a ?y ball for the final out. Murray is uninjured. Marquard's win is his last in 1914. He will lose 10 straight on his way to a 12-22 record."

Just to recap the recap, you've got a complete game by both starters, a game-winning home run, a record, 13 extra innings, a disappearing ball, a protest, a double ejection, a jinx, and an act of God.

Also from BBL, a few selected instances of fan misbehavior from 1905 (to pick a year at random):

May 8: In the 2-1 Pirate win over the Reds at Pittsburgh‚ OF Otis Clymer gets into a fight with Reds 1B Cliff Blankenship. The bad feelings started several days ago when Blankenship bumped Honus Wagner on the basepaths and Clymer tried to retaliate by spiking Blankenship at 1B today. Blankenship twice punches Clymer as both are tossed from the game. The first sacker is pelted with bottles and a thrown knife by fans.

June 19: The Giants lose to Cincinnati when New York P Hooks Wiltse accidentally swallows a quid of chewing tobacco that upsets his stomach and his pitching. The Reds roll to a 17-7 win‚ the 8th win in a row for the Reds. In the 3rd inning‚ Giants RF George Browne chases down an overthrow behind first bases and is greeted by several bottles tossed at him. One hits him on the leg‚ and both managers and a "swarm of coppers" (Cincinnati Enquirer) converge. Browne will file charges against a fan‚ but when the case appears in court the only testimony is given by Reds President Garry Herrmann and the case is dismissed.

July 18: The Pirates tally 8 hits including a HR‚ over 7 innings against Mathewson‚ to win‚ 2-1. The game is briefly stopped by ump Johnstone after a Giants fan tosses a pop bottle at Pirate RF Otis Clymer while he's chasing down a single.

July 19: The Pirates pull to within 5 games of New York by overcoming a 5-2 deficit and beating the Giants‚ 8-5. Bill Klem provokes a barrage of garbage from the New York fans by tossing Dan McGann and Mike Donlin out of the game for abusive behavior.

In a fitting ending to this unusual game‚ Giants OF Red Murray is knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning after catching a ?y ball for the final out.

What brand of glove did he use, Wonderboy?

Lightning you say? This is my favorite:

On August 24, 1919 in his first start in Cleveland's League Park, Ray Caldwell led the Philadelphia Athletics 2-1, with two outs in the ninth. Suddenly, bolts of lightning clustered over the ballpark. Sparks danced along the metal railings. Then Ray was hit by the lightning and knocked down, unconscious. One account said that the bolt had entered the metal button on the top of his cap and exited the metal spikes of his shoes. Ray later told the Cleveland Press, "It felt just like somebody came up with a board and hit me on top of the head and knocked me down." A few minutes later, he arose and insisted on finishing the game. He quickly retired the final batter, Joe Dugan, to preserve the win.


Ray Caldwell - SABR Biography