[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.

[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.

[dead]

Mets fans are fanatics!

[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.

[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?

[isom35]

I’m guessing he wasnt on any anti-depressants, this is just normal behavior.

[perez24]

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.

[kcvl]

“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.

http://tinyurl.com/2zhncu

[trillabodilla]

Are they SURE these folks weren’t disgruntled Astros fans?

[kcvl]

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.

http://tinyurl.com/3cjpxb