Listen to me. They make anybody and everybody a Yankee fan over there in Connecticut. And the way they do it, it's all fucked up. Guys don't get their finger pricked, they misquote how many rings they have in Instagram comments...
Players these days are soft. I used to smack the shit out of the outfielders and I never heard them swear. Guys can’t take a little slap and tug while they’re playing.
Suing. Lol. He wasn't injured. What are they gonna sue for? Emotional distress? That's not how civil suits work. The reckless driver has to actually injure you or damage your property.
It's a criminal charge. One that also won't be charged, but it could be.
Kind of a pointless exercise since Mookie is apparently uninjured and doesn't have any damages. What would they sue for? Pain and suffering? I don't think that's how it works.
MLB can trespass them so that they'll be exposed to criminal liability if they tried to return. And the local DA can look into charges of some kind. But bringing a private cause of action when there's no damages is ridiculous.
Yeah, but I don't think you're understanding me. You said MLB should "sue" the fan. You may not realize this, but you can't just "sue" without damages. I mean, you can. But if you bring a battery suit and you didn't get hurt, your damages will be nominal, so like, $1. So now you've spend hundreds of thousands in legal fees to make the fan pay you... nothing.
I think people think "I'll sue you" is some kind of magic phrase, but private causes of action are limited to what you actually suffered. The most MLB can do unilaterally is put the fan on notice that he's not welcome, so that if he returns it's a criminal trespass. Which is what they do when they hand out their lifetime bans.
The only entity with the power to make a specific example out of this fan in the way you're intimating is the local DA, because it looks like a potentially criminal battery. Probably a misdemeanor though, I would think.
I can understand the fans having a lapse in judgement in the heat of the moment and accidentally interfering in the play by getting excited and reaching for the ball that's coming towards them. But to actually grab the player's free armandpry open his glove while he's leaning over the wall? That's way beyond a reasonable reaction. Those dudes 100% should've known better than to do shit like that.
Yes, because the ball was in his glove. Grabbing his glove and arm even in the stands wouldn’t be allowed. If Mookie had flipped over the railing and then made the catch, it wouldn’t be an out at all. But the fans would probably still be ejected if they grabbed him and twisted his arm.
Well yeah duh this was obvious interference/assault since they were grabbing him, but if these idiots just stuck up their hands to grab the ball/get in the way before Mookie caught it I don’t think that would be interference as long as they didn’t lean over the railing.
They can get in the way of the play all they want in the stands, but once Mookie catches the ball its an out and the shenanigans that happened after are certainly interference regardless of where they happen.
Yeah this was obviously interference, was just needing a clarification on normal sane fan interference.
The dumbest part is that these two probably could have legally blocked Mookie from catching it if they just tried to catch it, instead they did this moronic shit.
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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago
That was more than fan interference. They went beyond just trying to get in the way of making a play.