Guys, take care of your tickers. Get outta your mom’s basement and go for a walk.
A male fan died in a hospital after going into cardiac arrest at Thursday’s game between the Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox.
Play was halted for four minutes in the seventh inning while the fan received CPR and was carted off on a stretcher.
Ambulance sirens could be heard outside the stadium as the fan was carted off, still receiving CPR.
Following the game, Toronto Police Services confirmed the fan had died in a hospital after collapsing. The name of the fan was not released.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the person who was taken out of here tonight,” Blue Jays manager John Farrell said.
White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis was the first player to notice the commotion in the stands, and alerted umpire Mark Wegner to what was going on.
“I saw some medics jump out around the dugout and run over,” Youkilis said. “Then I saw a doctor or whoever was going, just pushing on the chest over and over and over. I thought maybe they were reviving him and then the next thing you know, they kept going and going. I was like `God, man. We’ve got to stop this thing.”’
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1. Dan SzymborskiI'm waiting for the Cardinals to revive "Fannette" the next time a woman dies.
"You don't ever want to see that."
Yeah, I was wondering why they didn't cut to commercial. Then, for whatever reason, Hawk felt the need to describe what was happening as the camera kept going back and forth between bewildered-looking Jays' players and a wide shot of the paramedics trying to help the guy.
Watching the paramedics desperately trying to resuscitate the guy was disturbing, to say the least.
As for the headline, I first read it as "Mets fan dies at Blue Jays game" and figured that out of everybody of course it would happen to the Mets.
This made me giggle uncontrollably until tears were running down my face.
For those of you, who do not follow the footy, the images of Fabrice Muamba's on the pitch cardiac arrest earlier this year was extremely disturbing. The camera just suddenly without warning cut to him convulsing on the ground. Medical staff worked on him for about 20 mins on the pitch, without any sign of life. When they finally carted him off and abandoned the match, I don't think anybody believed he had a prayer. In the end, his heart was stopped for a total of 78 minutes.
It's rather timely, considering he announced his retirement from football on Wednesday.
He gone.
Moral: Don't threaten the networks.
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