The New York Yankees have banned the fan who threw a baseball and hit Red Sox left fielder Alex Verdugo from Yankee Stadium for life, a team spokesman said Sunday afternoon.
Major League Baseball has also banned the fan from its other 29 ballparks, the spokesman added.
“While the Yankees appreciate the spirit and passion of our fans in our various rivalries—especially with the Red Sox – reckless, disorderly and dangerous behavior that puts the safety of players, field staff or fellow fans in jeopardy will not be tolerated,” the Yankees said in a statement. “There is absolutely no place for it at Yankee Stadium. The safety of everyone at Yankee Stadium, including guests in the stands and players on the field, will always be the top priority for the Yankees organization every time we open our doors.”
The Yankees plan to meet with authorities later Sunday night to provide them with all information they have about the incident, the spokesman said.
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1. Jeff Francoeur's OPS Posted: July 18, 2021 at 07:04 PM (#6029526)https://www.twitter.com/BrendanKutyNJ/status/1416789260254986241
I'd claim to ban him for the rest of the year, and no promises about next year.
but I want to live in a world where this is the most egregious offense in MLB stadiums in all of 2021.
This is exactly how we "banned" people from the movie theater I used to work at. I'm sure it varies by jurisdiction, but we'd have the cops write out a trespass warning and then if we saw them (the perpetrators, not the cops) again, we'd have grounds to press trespassing charges.
But obviously there's no way to monitor that aside from someone recognizing the offender if they came back. I'm sure the Yankees will tell security staff to be on the lookout for the next couple weeks but other ballparks? Completely empty threat.
Stadium bans are pretty rigidly enforced in the UK, but then they have an honestly nightmarish level of surveillance.
And a nightmarish level of stadium hooliganism.
Is that still true? I thought they had largely gotten rid of that (Euro final notwithstanding).
via the "nightmarish level of surveillance RonJ referred to
Wow, I had PTSD for weeks. It was a shocking experience.
I had lunch with a british colleague and told him what I had seen and he laughed and said “ we all love our football but none of us go to the games anymore, we watch it on telly. If we want to go to a match we go to a rugby match”
I then told him all these nice things about the people I had met in the UK and asked how it could be that you could conquer the world like you did but you still had all these criminals and drunks that would show up en masse ?”
He looked at me and said “when we sailed to conquer all these countries who do you think rowed the boats?”
As I understand it, the primary result of all of the surveillance is to move (most of) the violence far away from the stadiums.
But #### gets real at the polo!
It’s an incentive for him to be on his best behavior if he ever goes to the ballpark again. They won’t notice if he just shows up (assuming someone else buys the ticket), but they will notice and maybe press charges if he gets in trouble again.
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