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Baracuda said:
Soccer doesn't kill people, people kill people.
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ahaha. perfect.
IN YOUR FACE, MARIS!
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I wonder if the shooter was a poster on his team's message board

STOMP
 
I love soccer, can't wait til the Timbers start!
 
Wheels, FSN and CSN have been battling over who will broadcast the games. Last week I got called to do all the games from FSN. There has been no press release about it, but they must have won the contract.
 
Royals first base coach assaulted by father-son duo
CHICAGO (AP) -- With his eyes on home plate and his back to the seats, Tom Gamboa never saw them coming.

One second the Kansas City coach was standing near first base. The next he was slammed to the ground, a bare-chested father and his teenage son pummeling him.

"I felt like a football team had hit me from behind. Next thing I knew, I'm on the ground trying to defend myself," Gamboa said.

"It just happened so fast."

In a scene athletes have feared for years, Gamboa was attacked without warning by two fans who came out of the seats. The Royals rushed to his aid and the 54-year-old Gamboa escaped with a few cuts and a bruised cheek. He walked off the field to a standing ovation from the crowd at Comiskey Park, where the Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 2-1.

A folded-up pocket knife was found on the ground near the scene, and White Sox outfielder Aaron Rowand said he saw it slip out of one of the fan's pockets.

"I don't know what we can do to eliminate this," Gamboa said. "I'm grateful [the Royals) got there as quick as they could, especially when there was a knife involved. God forbid me or somebody else would get stabbed.

"That could have been really tragic."

The father, identified by police as 34-year-old William Ligue Jr., and his 15-year-old son were led off the field in handcuffs. They were charged with aggravated battery.

The son faces two juvenile charges of battery because he also struck a security guard. He was released to the custody of his mother Friday.

As they were being put into police cars, the father and son contended there had been exchange with Gamboa.

"He got what he deserved," the elder Ligue said.

But Gamboa denied there was any kind of exchange.

"I have never at any time ever verbally or physically acknowledged the people in the stands and I encourage players to just tune them out," Gamboa said Friday morning in an interview with Sporting News Radio. "To respond to it in any manner lets that idiot know that he is getting to you, and common sense tells you that it will just escalate.

"That did not happen in any way shape or form."

This was the second unusual disruption during a game this week. On Monday night, police trying to break up a fight in the stands at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., used pepper spray that drifted onto the field and sickened some players as the Philadelphia Eagles played the Washington Redskins. There were no serious injuries.

Instances of on-field violence by fans have been rare over the years, but athletes are increasingly worried for their safety as fans get more and more brazen.

The most notorious attack was the one on tennis star Monica Seles, who was stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan in April 1993 during a match in Hamburg, Germany.

On Sept. 28, 1995, Cubs reliever Randy Myers was charged by a 27-year-old bond trader who ran out of the stands at Wrigley Field. Myers saw the man coming, dropped his glove and knocked him down with his forearm.

On Sept. 24, 1999, a 23-year-old fan attacked Houston right fielder Bill Spiers at Milwaukee. Spiers ended up with a welt under his left eye, a bloody nose and whiplash.

"Stuff like that is hard to control," Royals closer Roberto Hernandez said. "Once fans get a little boisterous and have a few too many beers, anything goes. Everybody was watching the play and these guys just literally walked on the field, then rushed Tom."

Gamboa, in his second year on the Royals staff, said he had no idea why he was attacked. Michael Tucker had just bunted back to White Sox pitcher Mike Porzio for the first out in the top of the ninth, and Gamboa was looking at home plate, his hands on his hips.

Suddenly, the two fans ran onto the field.

"When I saw the two guys running to first base, I thought they were going to run the bases like they normally do," Royals outfielder Carlos Beltran said.

But the two headed straight for Gamboa, tackled him and began punching him.

"When you get in brawls with the other team, you have a chance to anticipate this type of thing," Gamboa said. "But not when it's coming totally unprovoked. And from behind. I'm just totally stunned."

Gamboa said one of the men was speaking, but he couldn't tell what he was saying.

"He was yelling something, but it was incoherent," Gamboa said. "It just happened so fast."

The entire Royals dugout cleared and their bullpen rushed in from right field to help Gamboa. Several players jumped on the fans and punches were exchanged.

The White Sox players who were on the field ran over to see what was happening, turning first base into a wild scene. Security came on the field and tried to break it up, but it was several minutes before order was restored.

"Security did a good job cleaning it up," Royals first baseman Mike Sweeney said. "If it wasn't for them, we'd probably still be beating on those guys."

As security led Ligue and his son off the field in handcuffs, trainers attended to Gamboa. Blood was visible on his forehead as he walked, but he was smiling and laughing as he got more treatment in the dugout.

"I'm just stiff and sore," he said. "I heard one of the guys say there was a knife. I was stunned, so I was checking to see if I was stabbed and didn't realize it."

Hitting coach Lamar Johnson replaced him in the first base box, and the game finally resumed after about a 10-minute delay.

Gamboa said he doesn't blame White Sox security for the incident. And he doesn't fault first-base umpire Matt Hollowell or White Sox second baseman Willie Harris for not immediately coming to his aid.

"In fairness to everybody," Gamboa said, "everyone was stunned."

But this should be a sobering lesson to everyone, Beltran said. The next incident might not end so well.

"We think we're safe at the ballpark," Beltran said. "What happened today, that tells us no matter where we are, we're not safe."
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2002/09/19/royals_whitesox_ap/
 
HCP said:
Wheels, FSN and CSN have been battling over who will broadcast the games. Last week I got called to do all the games from FSN. There has been no press release about it, but they must have won the contract.
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interesting news.. I wonder if they will have the replays on FSN but the live telecast on local tv like up in Seattle. Thanks for that update though amigo! And we expect you to give us at least one behind the scenes game ;)
 
Murder Over Baseball

This is just too much:

A woman accused of running down a man in her car after a Red Sox-Yankees argument in a bar never hit her brakes as she accelerated toward the small group he was in, a prosecutor said Monday.

"She never braked, and she accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of people," prosecutor Susan Morrell said of Ivonne Hernandez, who is charged with reckless second-degree murder in the death early Friday of Matthew Beaudoin, 29.

Appearently, Hernandez is a Yankees fan, and the Red Sox fans at the bar taunted her. Last I heard, being taunted by your foes isn't a reason to run them over. In fact, unless they're standing in the street with a gun pointed at you, I can think of no reason to run over someone. This is just disgusting.
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http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/026400.php

A raging Yankees fan accused of running down a Red Sox [team stats] fanatic by plowing her car into him after he chanted “Yankees suck” only meant to “scare” him, the accused killer allegedly told police.

Ivonne Hernandez, 43, gunned her car at Matthew Beaudoin, 29, and his friends after an argument spilled out of Slade’s Food & Spirits in Nashua, N.H., early Friday, witnesses and police said.
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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/r...g?articleid=1092028&srvc=home&position=recent
 
any more fucking questions Maris?
 
Maris was just trying to get a reaction, because he's in bored Central Oregon.
 
Knife Brushes Joyner's Arm
By United Press International, August 27, 1986
California rookie Wally Joyner escaped injury Tuesday night when his armed was grazed by a knife thrown from the stands after the Angels' 2-0 victory over New York in Yankee Stadium.Joyner, a leading candidate to win both the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards in the American League, said he felt the hunting knife brush his left arm as he talked with winning pitcher Mike Witt.''We were heading toward the third base dugout, and I felt this thing brush my arm,'' Joyner said.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2002/09/19/fan_violence/

I can keep playing if you like
 
Rodolfo said:
Maris was just trying to get a reaction, because he's in bored BEAUTIFUL Central Oregon.
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fixed it so it sounded like a post of his
 
[video=youtube;jbn3rOPmR9w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w&feature=player_embedded[/video]

I'd love to see your Yankee counterparts celebrate a homerun like that.
 
Ronan said:
[video=youtube;jbn3rOPmR9w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w&feature=player_embedded[/video]

I'd love to see your Yankee counterparts celebrate a homerun like that.
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Jesus I remember seeing this vid for the virst time. CHILLS. and Repped.. and GUNNERS!!!!!!
 
also true lol
 
I'm not saying it to be a dick (even though I am). But like... why are they bad?
 
Ronan said:
I'm not saying it to be a dick (even though I am). But like... why are they bad?
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no clue.. I have gone for the Netherlands since the 90's lol
 
Wheels said:
no clue.. I have gone for the Netherlands since the 90's lol
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The Dutch team has the cockiest douchiest players in the world. God damn I hate them. The Dutch also have the best baseball team in Europe. Your're a swell fella though.
 
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