First Phils Fan Kicked out of CitiField

Headline: "College student takes stand for totally pointless cause." Also in news: "Sun rises in east."

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Wowza @ the comments

Pretty angry for a fanbase still basking in a World Series victory.

by Eric Simon on Apr 2, 2009 10:22 AM EDT reply actions

or whenever it was that Cerrone posted it this week. Absolute stupidity. I guess my shorter summary (for those not inclined to read it) would be: “I wore a Phillies jacket to work at Citi because I am teh awesome. My boss asked me to take it off out of respect for our hosts and I was like ‘NO I AM TEH AWESOME!!’. Then I quit my job and walked out. I can haz fake controversy now?”

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 2, 2009 10:28 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs

Great summary!

by Eric Simon on Apr 2, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions

nice - now i dontn have to read the self aggrandizing recounting of the tale

all fan bases have their good and bad aspects but there are defintiley a lit of idiots among the phanatic populace. just complete savages.

also, die eagles.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Apr 2, 2009 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Isn't that just German

for “The Eagles”? If so, explain.

by Eric Simon on Apr 2, 2009 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions

No one who speaks German can be evil!

No one is trying to deny the savage contingent among Phillies fans, but as someone who has attended games at both CBP (and the Vet), as well as Shea, I can assure you the Mets fans give as good as they get. There are no “victims” here, except perhaps my liver.

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on Apr 2, 2009 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions

The only victim is fun

I’ve sat in the middle of plenty of opposition crowds in various sports where both sides engaged in good-natured, if a bit filthy, perhaps, sparring. Everyone takes what they give and has a laugh. It’s only a problem when the loudest idiots, on both sides, take over.

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 2, 2009 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions

very true

I went to a game at Shea and sat in a section with the aforementioned “good-natured” ribbing going on. The section next to us had a wasted (is there any other kind? roffles) Phillies fan who started gloating and, predictably, got the snot beat out of him (this was September 2007…). The guy next to me said “This is just like the Yankees and Red Sox, only without the triumph and joy!” I still get a good laugh out of that one.

On the other hand, you have the weirdly passive fans elsewhere. I went to a World Series game in Arizona in 2001, and got really confused when I was the only person in the crowd on his feet and cheering with two outs and two strikes on the opposing batter…

Is it possible to get vocal and passionate crowds, but MINUS the fists? Dare to dream…

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on Apr 2, 2009 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions

wasted phillies fans

One time I was meeting friends at a Mets-Phils game at Shea and I was a little behind schedule and didn’t get there until the bottom of the first. When I got to my seat, my friends informed me that one of the Phillies fans a row in front of us and a few seats over had already thrown up from drinking too much in the top of the first inning. It was a day game.

by JoshNY on Apr 3, 2009 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions

die Adler

to answer your question.

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on Apr 4, 2009 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions

wonderful

Another off-the-field manufactured controversy, thanks for helping us out, kid, really. You’re an American hero.

It gets increasingly difficult to enjoy this on-field rivalry in light of the massive numbers of douchelords on both sides mucking things up.

If both of the teams were miserable, stuff like this would be easier to take, but the quality of the product on the field is so good that this just distracts from it.

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on Apr 2, 2009 10:57 AM EDT reply actions