Mets Fan Murdered Mom After Loss: Queens DA

The Village Voice ^ | 07/30/2007 | Michael Clancy

[wastedyears]

I’ve never been that way when watching the Mets. I’m loud and throw things when I get killed playing video games. That’s absolutely horrific

[Gator101]

Michael Anthony—no relation to the former bassist of Van Halen—stabbed his mother in the head and beat her to death

Well I am sure glad they clarified that! I was on pins-and-needles for a second there!

[stm]

Winning at baseball is not a matter of life or death......oh wait, yes it is.........

Noo yawkiz, gotta love em.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

"When his 61-year-old mother, Maria, intervened, Anthony attacked him, authorities said."

American journalism at its finest!

[PUGACHEV]

I’ve noticed that Mets fans are the worst, although Phillies fans are pretty bad. When they come to see the Nats at RFK, it’s no end of abuse, beer spilling, fights and so on. Yankee’s fans aren’t like that when they come to town, so it’s something about the Mets. Maybe it’s an over-compensated sense of inferiority that turns them violent; maybe that they feel that everyone’s picking on them, insulting them, because, well .... they feel they deserve to be insulted. It wasn’t like this a few years ago when the Mets were really bad and no one cared about them. Back then the team was a joke, and the fans were a happy lot.

[dakine]

Still posting...?

[Tall_Texan]

Look on the bright side. That’s probably two less Democrat voters, although the dead mom will probably still be voting for years to come.

[SnakeDoctor]

I’ve noticed the same thing about Mets and Phils fans ... crazy people. Philly sports fans are generally insane - i.e. throwing batteries, booing Michael Irvin as he’s carted off the field with a career-ending injury. Cubs and Red Sox fans always seemed to whiny to be violent. Yankees fans might hire a hit man ... but they’re too snobbish to kill by themselves.

Go stros! (Though not so much this year ... we stink).

H

[Arpege92]

“Yankee’s fans aren’t like that when they come to town”

Obviously you’ve never been to Yankee Stadium during the subway series.

[CT-Freeper]

The Mets lost to the Nationals 6-5.

The most tragic sentence of the article, of course...

All kidding aside, what kind of fools get violent over sports games? I mean, I get disappointed when my teams loose, but I can't imagine becoming physically violent.

[angcat]

He would kill his whole family if he was a Yankee fan these days.

[chimera]

It does seem a bit much. When my teams lose all I do is go out and get drunk. And, being that three of my home-town teams have lost championship games this year (we’re becoming the town of runners-up), my bar tab is getting a bit steep.

[dead]

Mets fans are fanatics!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

[synbad600]

I read about this in the NY Post yesterday, and while this article states that the assault occurred during the game, it fails to state that the kid had serious mental problems exclusive of what they were watching. I.e., the Mets had nothing to do w/ this guy flipping out. Per the NYP.

[eastsider]

Oh, ye of little faith!

[montag813]

I know some of these sports fan losers. Their “team” loses and they are despondent for days. Do these even realize that the players themselves are multimillionaires who couldn’t care less what “team” they play for so long as the huge checks keep coming in, and once they leave the stadium in their limos, they quickly forget all about it?

[Gay State Conservative]

I get disappointed when my teams loose, but I can't imagine becoming physically violent.

As a life-long Red Sox fan I've shed many a tear in my day (67-75-78-86) but I've never killed.

[Pharmboy]

LOLOL!! Not too far from the truth (and I’m a huge Mets fan)