"the reputation of Chicago baseball fans got a black eye"

If anything this helps fight the reputation of CubSox bandwagoneers.

Besides she waited over 2,000 games to get assaulted.

Hey, this was Chicago. This character probably just figured it was a Springer taping.

"You don't slap a New Jersey girl and get away with it," Craig Biggio said in Houston. "My brother-in-law ended up putting him against the wall."

I think Chris and Paulie will be paying this fellow a visit.

Mrs. Biggio seemed to take the incident in stride, noting that it was the two hundred and sixty-eighth time she had been hit at a ballgame, breaking the previous record held by Don Baylor's wife.

This thread should be making it's way up the "hot topics" list and compiling comments pretty soon.

Back in Houston, where Patty Biggio is active in local charities, news of the attack infuriated Astros fans who vented on the team's Web blog, some citing past violence at the Cell, including a 2002 incident where a fan attacked a coach and a fan assault on an umpire in 2003.

That clause seems strangely unnecessary unless the paper believes the miserly deserve random beatings.

That clause seems strangely unnecessary unless the paper believes the miserly deserve random beatings.

Didn't you see the deleted scee from It's a Wonderful Life in which they pushed old man Potter down the stairs? That was awesome.

Couldn't have been A-Rod, when was the last time he hit anything this late in October?

Best Regards

John

That clause seems strangely unnecessary unless the paper believes the miserly deserve random beatings.

I guess that's just pointing out that fans are likely to have met Mrs Biggio, and that's gonna give them even more reason to vent about her poor treatment.

Fan violence was more fun when chairs were involved.

That clause seems strangely unnecessary unless the paper believes the miserly deserve random beatings.

Well, if celebrities don't give to charities, they should be beaten. However, she's not a celebrity, so she should be excluded from the beatings.

What do you care, Chris? She's white.

Hey speaking of punching people at Sox games everybody had better read my blog or I will punch them in the nose.

Mrs. Biggio seemed to take the incident in stride, noting that it was the two hundred and sixty-eighth time she had been hit at a ballgame, breaking the previous record held by Don Baylor's wife.

I absolutely hate it when Mrs. Biggio leans into slappings.

I absolutely hate it when Mrs. Biggio leans into slappings.

Good to hear she wasn't injured; thankfully, the slap must have bounced off her body armor.

More from Ozzie

It wasn't like a fight. (The patron) hit the lady and left. I wish she would have grabbed something and broken his head. If that happened to my family, it would have been a big problem.

People should just go to the game and not bother people next to you or you're not a White Sox fan or a baseball fan. Just enjoy the game. Drink if you want to drink, just respect the people next to you. And the guy that did it, he should be brought to Biggio, and he's the one that can hopefully get him back.

The neighbors from the North will merely snicker as we recline in front of the fire eating our cheese and sausage.

You stay classy Chicago.

Hey, Harvey, I'll have you know that Cubs fans only hit players upside the head (and steal their caps). We leave the wives alone.

Kind of odd, considering that it cost about eight large to even get in the door Sunday night, that the character of the White Sox fan base is in question again. In fact, I'm surprised that anyone was thawed out enough to throw hands.

Ms. Biggio oughta try going to a Bears game.

At a Duke road game my senior year, a Maryland fan gave Carlos Boozer's mother a concussion when he hit her in the head with a bottle.

Yeah, but that was a Maryland fan. There is nothing lower.

I like Ozzie's style. He should be our first emperor.

Vlad: was that before or after he set her car on fire in the middle of Route 1?

he was sitting in seats that belonged to "a medical consultant to the club who gave them to another doctor,'' said Reifert.


Doctor Jekyll?

What a jerk. Doesn't he know Mrs. Biggio is not a first base coach! Those are the ones you're supposed to hit at White Sox games!

1st base coaches *and* umps are fair game.

Ozzie should be commissioner.

Mrs. Biggio seemed to take the incident in stride, noting that it was the two hundred and sixty-eighth time she had been hit at a ballgame, breaking the previous record held by Don Baylor's wife.

I can't believe this brilliant post hasn't been properly complimented yet.

I can't believe this brilliant post hasn't been properly complimented yet.

I agree. I had a similar thought as I was rading the intro, but post #3 nailed it much better than I could have.

As a Detroit Pistons fan, I am appalled.

And anyone who's ever been to a night game in the Cell with another team's jersey on shouldn't be surprised.

In all seriousness, does anyone else think this whole incident rings a little false?

I'm sure these weren't exactly cheap seats where the Astros family members were. So somebody in a seat going for $1400 on Ebay, takes a whack at somebody's wife, is physically confronted by the brother-in-law, AND there's no charges pressed?

Hmmm.

This incident will lead people to picture Sox fans lined up to slap Mrs. Biggio like a scene out of "Airplane," won't it?

(Sigh)

Oh, hey, wait! If the Astros come back to win the Series, can we make the slapper our own personal Bartman? Pretty please?

Besides she waited over 2,000 games to get assaulted.

Sounds like she's one of those wives that you love if you're married to her and hate if she's married to somebody else.

I had the same thought, Up2Drew. However, the slap came at the last out of the ballgame. Lots of time to get drunk (rich folk get stupid-drunk, too); no game left to miss if you get kicked out; and a large exiting crowd to blend into, minimizing the chance paying any price at all for being a dirtbag.

Don't mess with South-siders. She got off easy:
CHICAGO: Joe Aiello, gang chieftain and Al Capone's most bitter rival, paid with his life today [Oct. 24] for his success in Chicago's underworld. He was shot down as he attempted to sneak out of the city to escape his enemies. Sixty-two machine gun bullets were taken from his body after the vice lord died on the way to a hospital.

My kind of town, Chicago is.

Just because the seats are considered expensive does not mean the inhabitants possessed any degree of common sense or decorum.

The inference is that folks with money are better behaved. Libby Grubman anyone?

Never underestimate the power of combining alcohol, too much excitement, and stupidity.

And that crosses all classes folks.

CHICAGO: Joe Aiello, gang chieftain and Al Capone's most bitter rival, paid with his life today [Oct. 24] for his success in Chicago's underworld. He was shot down as he attempted to sneak out of the city to escape his enemies. Sixty-two machine gun bullets were taken from his body after the vice lord died on the way to a hospital.

You want to get the Sox? Here's how you get them.
They pull a slap...you pull a bat.
They send one of yours to Customer Service...you send one of theirs to First-Aid.
That's the Chicago way...and that's how you get the Sox.

I figured the Ligue family had been barred from Comiskey.

Repoz, the inveterate blogster, missed the following neo-postmodern reference in this silly little tale:

"White Sox fans are lower class of people,'' said one blogger. "Seriously. The fact of the matter is [U.S. Cellular Field] is not a safe place to bring your family to see a ballgame.''

Blogging and good old, down home American prejudice--once again linked at the hip bone...

What do you care, Chris? She's white.

I never said I CARED as in "SYMPATHIZED".

I think I speak for all of us when I ask:

What's she look like?

I'd hit it

Either the link thing is busted or I'm stupid- the investigation continues. In the mean time, you'll have to use the old fashioned cut and paste method.

http://www.houstongulflpa.org/images/Craig, Patty and Matthew.JPG

Looks like Mira Sorvino.

Didn't you see the deleted scee from It's a Wonderful Life in which they pushed old man Potter down the stairs? That was awesome.

<a href="http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86hlife.phtml">You're wrong, they didn't throw him down the stairs.</a>

What's she look like?

Pretty darn good.

Um, I'm voting for "link thing is busted".

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86hlife.phtml

Ha ha. My link works.

Yeah, but that was a Maryland fan. There is nothing lower.

Actually, there is only two lower forms of life than a Maryland fan. One is a Duke fan, the other is Tom Penders.

Now I'm glad the Angels didn't take the series to seven games. I figure if they had, I probably would have taken the Red Line home, walked east down Fullerton, and walked right into the emergency room at Children's Hospital on the way to my apartment.

It was in Wives' seating. How did Shaune Bagwell get a ticket?

I have to agree with Harvey--when we are talking drunk and belligerent, class isn't really an issue.

If anything, people should be blogging: Just goes to show what happens when you go to the Cell when it's filled to the brim with second-rate celebrities and player's wives.

a Maryland fan gave Carlos Boozer's mother a concussion when he hit her in the head with a bottle.

I knew the bottle would bring down ol' Mrs. Boozer eventually...

That clause seems strangely unnecessary unless the paper believes the miserly deserve random beatings.


Don't they?

It was in Wives' seating. How did Shaune Bagwell get a ticket?

I think that she was having a problem seeing the mascots up in the nosebleed players' ex-wives section.

Was she wearing a hat full of pine tar?

Couldn't have been A-Rod, when was the last time he hit anything this late in October?

Can't believe this hasn't been touched yet.

Of course it was A-Rod. The headline says "Astro player's wife slapped at Sunday's game." We all know that A-Rod's specialty is slapping.

Oh, and #3 is brilliant.

I know I'm sick and evil, but Guapo's "I'd hit it" (#41) deserves a little recognition. Too bad his inept linking ability masked it all...

Can't believe this hasn't been touched yet.

Of course it was A-Rod. The headline says "Astro player's wife slapped at Sunday's game." We all know that A-Rod's specialty is slapping.

That was the reponse to the intro...

Craig Biggio's kid looks stoned in that picture. Perhaps Craig has been teaching him how to "take one for the team" while pitching him BP in the backyard?

I don't think that was biggio's kid. I think that's some random tyke.

And, I'd be more willing to give Guapo credit for 41 had he not screwed up the link.

Ouch. And he's a "Sunshine Kid". Which probably means that he's handicapped in some way, and for the 43rd reason just today, I'm going to hell.

1st base coaches *and* umps are fair game.

don't forget cops

"White Sox fans are lower class of people," said one blogger. "Seriously. The fact of the matter is [U.S. Cellular Field] is not a safe place to bring your family to see a ballgame."

We apparently await the first legal infraction ever at a Houston sporting event.

Remember the day trader who went out on the field at Wrigley after Randy Myers gave up a home run to an Astro? I thought it was great that he attacked a martial arts expert.

That was the reponse to the intro...

Yep. Missed that.

Bill James' system rates the jerk who swatted Biggio's wife as the 35th greatest drunk in baseball history.

I hate it when people like Patty Biggio and Chris Truby get slapped at baseball games.

Right ahead of William Ligue, just ahead of Bobby Jenks.

one of those aheads = behind

Sox manager Ozzie Guillen apologized to Craig Biggio. "I told the police, don't put him in jail, bring him to me in the dugout,'' Guillen said.

I thought he only engaged in Santeria sacrifices back home....

I thought it was great that he attacked a martial arts expert.

Ahh, memories...you've brought to my mind the classic bout between Pat Corrales and Dave Stewart.

i don't think his wife is that attractive personally

bl

I hate it when people like Patty Biggio and Chris Truby get slapped at baseball games.

Joke police, you've been busted for screwing up the Belle/Truby joke. Actually it was Albert Belle who was slapped along with Mrs. Biggio. Chris Truby was not to be seen, frantically preparing for some demonic new moon ritual later in the week.

i don't think his wife is that attractive personally

Cousin Frankie Biggio: Wait, what are you sayin'? Are you sayin' that my cousin's wife is ugly? Are you sayin' that my cousin Craig is blind or somethin', that he musta married some kinda dog?
Craig Biggio: Answer the man.
BL: Well, I didn't mean anything by it, she's just not really my type is all...
Cousin Frankie: Oh, not your ####### type, huh? Well, what the #### is your type, huh? My cousin Craig, he could have any woman he wants! He's a baseball superstar! He's a borderline Hall of Famer!
Craig: Wait. What?
Cousin Frankie: He's made millions a' dollars in his career! And he's a good lookin' man to boot!
Craig: Why, thank you, Frankie.
Cousin Frankie: I mean it, cuz. You're well-groomed, yet rugged. (to BL) Anyway, he's got all dis stuff, and he picked my cousin-in-law Patty to be the mother of his kids. You sayin' that his kids is ugly too? What kind of women are you gettin', pissant? I dunno, maybe youse is out partyin' with dat Cat'rine Ziti Jones every night, but I kinda doubt it. You should thank your god you even have a chance to look at a woman like Patty!
BL: I never said she was ugly...okay, fine, she's a nice-looking woman, okay?
Cousin Frankie: Oh, now she's nice-lookin', huh? What the #### do you mean by that?
Craig: Yeah, what the #### does he mean?
Cousin Frankie: Are you sayin' that you want to have intimate relations wit' my cousin's wife? You sayin' that you get all hot and bothered just thinkin' about the mother of my little cousins, you perv? You wanna make a cuckoo out of my cousin here?
Craig: "Cuckold," Frank.
Cousin Frankie: Craig, I'm tryin' to work here...
Craig: Oh, sorry. Yeah, you tell him, Frankie!
Cousin Frankie: You'd like to pollute my sweet cousin Patty wit' your disgustingness? You know what would happen to you if that got out? Every Biggio in the tri-state would be on your ass! Your tiny little manly parts would be floatin' in the East River! My cousin Craig here would make a second baseman's glove, an outfielder's glove, and a catcher's mitt outta your skin! He's versatile, you know what I'm sayin'? Hey, Craig, if this punk's so intent on befoulin' your old lady, maybe we oughtta take some preventive measures right now! IZZAT WHAT YOU WANT, CREEP?!!
BL: I--I'M SORRY! I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT ME TO SAY! (breaks down in tears)
Cousin Frankie: Hey, hey, kid, don't cry! We was just havin' a little fun with you, is all! Go 'Stros, you know what I'm sayin'?
Craig: Let's roll, Frankie. I wanna get some pasta fazool before the game. Carbo load, y'know.

Maybe it was this

man

Nothin'? Aw, I spent half an hour on that!

Well, you can all go straight to hell.

I thought it was funny, but didn't have anything to add.

Ah, I'm just screwing with you. I wrote that and had visions of rapturous praises awaiting me, then I come back eight hours later and...nothin'. (The six hour game probably didn't help.) Sometimes you hit one on a slider in the dirt, and sometimes you think you've got a good read on the pitch and you strike out, so it goes...

IT was ok, jasper, I just had nothing to add, and was trying not to pollute the airspace.