Posted on 07/31/2007 8:04:36 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Doesn't this seem more like something a Yankee fan would do? Or a Red Sox fan? Mets fans always appeared more suicidal than homicidal. In any event, it's awfully tragic.
Michael Anthony—no relation to the former bassist of Van Halen—stabbed his mother in the head and beat her to death with a twenty-pound barbell on Saturday night after she tried to break up a fight between him and his father during a Mets game, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Monday.
Anthony, 25, of Fresh Meadows, started pounding on the walls while watching the Mets play the Nationals, Brown said. When his father, Fred Fischman, told him to stop, Anthony punched him in the face and threw him on the ground, Brown said. When his 61-year-old mother, Maria, intervened, Anthony attacked him, authorities said.
From the DA's press release:
The District Attorney said that, according to the criminal charges, the defendant was watching a New York Mets game in his family’s apartment on the night of July 28, 2007, when he began banging on the walls. At that point, his father, Fred Fischman, came into the room and yelled at him to stop. It is alleged that a physical fight then took place between the two men, during which Fischman was punched about the face and thrown to the ground. As the defendant’s mother, 61year-old Maria Fischman, attempted to intercede, the defendant allegedly pushed her and stabbed her once in the head with a knife. Mrs. Fischman then ran into the bedroom, where the defendant allegedly struck her several times in the head with a twenty-pound barbell.
Anthony faces up to 25 years to life on second-degree murder, third-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon charges. The Mets lost to the Nationals 6-5.
Yep, in many instances, that's very true. And the same goes for the team owners, who don't really care about anything other than protecting their "investments," which of course they are always willing to trade or sell if the price is right.
I’m guessing he wasnt on any anti-depressants, this is just normal behavior.
LOL! You're right! But you know, you can only push someone so far, even a Yankee's fan. For instance, I would expect them to murder that cowbell man if he ever showed up at Yankee Stadium.
What’s really sad is that fans of any number of teams become this hysterical, depressed, or whatever...and the players don’t really care one way or the other about how upset they get.
That’s not an indictment on players of today, because I don’t think they cared more in the days of yore either. In fact, I’ve been hearing about how players are overpaid, don’t care about the game, etc. since I was growing up in the late 60’s.
Good grief! John Rocker was right!
I should have read your posts before I sent mine.
But in a sense you could say the same about the fans. The only reason they care about an A-Rod or Bonds or Griffey or Maddux is because the player is so good. Once the players start to decline, they are “washed up” and booed and whined about on sports talk radio.
In 1978, we were 14 games out in August, and there was no wild card. This year, we’re only 8 out in July, and 4 out of the wild card. Do you honestly think the Yankees won’t even make the wild card?
“We started fighting, and my mother jumped in,” Michael Anthony, 26, told police of the Saturday night incident in Flushing, authorities said. “She went into the kitchen and got a knife.”
Anthony and his mother, Maria Fischman, 61, struggled with the knife and “it broke over her head.” She then went into the bedroom and reached into a drawer, according to the criminal complaint. Anthony thought she was getting a weapon, he allegedly told cops, so he grabbed the nearest thing to him - a 20-pound dumbbell.
“[I] swung it, hit her and she fell to the floor,” Anthony allegedly said.
Are they SURE these folks weren’t disgruntled Astros fans?
The woman’s husband, Fred Fischman, carried a barbell downstairs after the attack, telling neighbors, “I wanted to have him committed but she didn’t want to,” witnesses said.
Joan Nigri, a neighbor in the 2,300-unit Electchester housing complex set up by electric union workers, said the family “kept mostly to themselves.”
“They were very quiet people,” she said.
we arent all insane. id say about 5% are nuts, the other 95% passionate.
Me too! This perp would have been -4 when Van Halen's first album came out.
"He was a quiet man." - Rodney Dangerfield
Brilliant.
Not sure about your 5%-95% stats ... but I’d grant you that there are exceptions to the “Philly fans are insane” rule. But, there is a sizeable number of insane people at Philly sports events ... be it the Eagles, Sixers or Phils.
Maybe its just my bias ... I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan - so I’m not big on the Eagles. Though as an Astros fan, I have no problem with the Phils (I actually root for the Phils and Braves because I so dislike the Mets).
Phils fans were pretty rough on Pat Burrell last year, though.
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sixer fans are probably the nicest of the group. maybe its apathy but theres rarely much of anything going on at their games.
i can understand your dislike of the eagles. they can be a rowdy bunch and the hatred for the cowboys among fans here is head scratching at times.
you can have pat the flat burrell. he stinks!
>> you can have pat the flat burrell. he stinks!
The way the Astros have been hitting ... we could probably use the help.
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By the way, you owe me a new keyboard.
My mother is very much alive, and very much a Mets fan. :-)
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