Red Sox Spectator Loses Season Tickets for 2005

Associated Press ^ | 4-18-2005 | HOWARD ULMAN

[FormerACLUmember]

Good move by the Red Sox. Classy and professional on their part. I still hate their guts however (Yankee fan).

[kingattax]

[conshack]

From one Yankee fan to another, I agree. Sheffield should be exonerated of any wrongdoing. The fan was being an ass and the woman was an accomplice. Rivalry is one thing, but this was totally uncalled for.

[kingattax]

yanks-sox is better than the hatfields and the McCoys..lol

[sierrahome]

"A fan who spilled beer on Sheffield"

Do that at a "T"-ball game and you might be a red neck.

[ladyjane]

Charges should be brought against the fan who interfered with the play and the one who threw beer.

[Cboldt]

Good move by the Red Sox. Classy and professional on their part.

Agreed. And if the fan's swiping move was a drunken accident, I hope he has the good grace to accept the loss and move on.

As for the putz that threw the beer ... if Fenway was my park, that bozo would be forever banned.

[Enterprise]

"Red Sox Spectator Loses Season Tickets for 2005"

[Cboldt]

Sheffield should be exonerated of any wrongdoing.

I sure thought his reaction was tempered. Don't think he did anything out of proportion. Not a perfect angel, but certainly not "wrong."

[kingattax]

lol

[Petronski]

Damn straight.

[hillary's_fat_a**]

Good move by the Red Sox. Classy and professional on their part. I still hate their guts however (Yankee fan).

Agreed, good move by the 2004 Champions .... who caused the biggest choke in professional sports playoff history :). Poltics-wise, you're represented by Chuckie-baby and 'Ol Crusty. I'm represented by overfed Ted and the well-coiffured Kerry. I'd call that a toss-up of losers, wouldn't you?

[commish]

Good move by the Sox.

I am not so sure the fan was trying to hit Sheffield, the tape looks to me like the idiot is reaching for the ball; But what he was doing does not matter -- he was interfering with the action on the field either way.

Kudo's for tossing the ass that threw the beer too.

[FormerACLUmember]

Good move by the Red Sox. Classy and professional on their part. I still hate their guts however (Yankee fan). Agreed, good move by the 2004 Champions .... who caused the biggest choke in professional sports playoff history :). Poltics-wise, you're represented by Chuckie-baby and 'Ol Crusty. I'm represented by overfed Ted and the well-coiffured Kerry. I'd call that a toss-up of losers, wouldn't you?

We Red Sox and Yankee fans need baseball. Something, anything to help us forget that Massachusetts and New York are represented the 4 worst US Senators, the absolute bottom of the barrel. I simply don't know who is worse, or who is the most corrupt, or who is the most evil.

[Huck]

Baloney. Sheffield's a tool. The ball was still in play, Red Sox circling the bases, and he takes time to engage a fan before throwing the ball? What a L-O-S-E-R.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

"I'd call that a toss-up of losers, wouldn't you?"

I've never seen a team so set up for gigantic failure and disgrace as the 2005 BoSox.

[VOYAGER]

Why not just remove the first two or three rows of seats that border the playing field thereby eliminating any intentional or accidental contact with players working a ball hit into these areas?

For those who still attempt to interfere with a player a double row (or more) of razor wire could be strung in tnis area back to the wall which is now the third row retaining wall.

Any ball in play that lands in or bounces into this razor wire area would be ruled as a ground rule double and out of play.

[conshack]

Exactly. I laud him for maintaining his cool. The fan deserved a good ole fashion a$$whooping.

[commish]

While I applaud Sheff foe not doing anything totally stupid, i do think he should still be fined for putting his hands on the fan.

What he did is not a "suspension" offence IMO, but he did shove the fan and as such needs to be punished for that.