April 25, 2008
Mets Player Has Thin Skin
Chicagoist thought players from New York would have some pretty thick skin, but apparently that's not the case for Mets relief pitcher Joe Smith. While shagging balls during batting practice prior to a game earlier this week, the bleacher bums' taunts -- already in drunken top form and it's only April -- got to him enough that he actually responded. And did so by telling the fans that "[they] ain't sh!t!" and rubbing in their face that he's the one in the big leagues.
Letting the fans get to him like that can be dangerous at Wrigley for a bullpen guy -- the fans by what passes as the bullpen are even closer and some of 'em surely noticed how he lost his cool. Anyone know if the heckling continued during the game, too?
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Heckling at a baseball game??
Jeepers, these Cubs fans are really getting out of hand...
Heckling is one of my five favorite things to do.
Heckling is one of my five favorite things to do.
My wife was at this game and she said the behavior from a lot of fans, particularly in the bleachers, is really getting out of hand.
Uh oh. It would appear there's a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something...
The first comment said it wasn't posted because I "commented too much in a short period of time" and I was like. "DAMN YOU MARGARET!! I think she changed the settings. Like everyone else is a one and I am a zero or some shit to fuck with binary code. Anyway, apologies for the double post.
when the players heckle back, it's a beautiful moment...
It's all in fun, I wish more players would give it back.
I'm sure the people who were going back & forth with him will cherish this for a long time.
Good for Joe Smith to get into it!!!
The Mets series is always out of hand, I wouldn't say that the bleachers are changing or anything. I heard on THe SCore I believe that last season the most people thrown out of any games at Wrigley were during the Mets series.
@Spav1
So what are your four other favorite things?
I think "out of hand" is a pretty relative term. Anyone who watches European soccer knows what I'm talking about. I saw a goalie get smacked with a lit flare thrown from the stands. This, well, it "ain't shit." Give me the Wrigley drunks any day over getting knifed in Italy.
I've long maintained that Major League baseball teams should have their own hooligan firms. The Red Line Series would make the Civil War seem tame by comparison...
Come on, "out of hand" is Jaime Moyer Poster Day, or Father-Son Drunk Run Out On The Field Day, or Dodger Player Jump in the Stands for Some WhoopAss Day.
I don't think it's necessarily worse now.
When did Joe Smith leave the Cleveland Cavs, anyway?
Come on, "out of hand" is Jaime Moyer Poster Day, or Father-Son Drunk Run Out On The Field Day, or Dodger Player Jump in the Stands for Some WhoopAss Day.
And let's not forget "William Ligue Father & Son Pummel the Opposing Coach Day"...
Spav's Theoretical Five Favorite Things (in no particular order):
- Petting Kittens
- Heckling
- Drinking
- Arguing
- Watching NASCAR
Also, fuck this guy.
Uncalled for or not, baseball players have been getting harassed and heckled since the beginning of time. You'd think they'd be used to it from Little League on, but come on.
How angry can you get when you're a multi-millionaire for playing a kids game and some douche bag playing hooky from the shit-shoveling plant calls you a fag? I'd just think about boning chicks on a giant pile of money. Like Scrooge McDuck used to do.
@plum
You'd think about screwing ducks? Hey, man, that's cool. I'm not judging...
(Obviously, I really don't feel like working today. The weekend has already started as far as this guy is concerned. Now where's the beer man?)
@ Pinko:
Five favorite things are:
1) Smoking
2) Drinking
3) Tanning
4) Gossip/heckling (kind of the same)
5) Shopping
(#5 shoulding really be "fucking", but that seems crass, hence the footnote)
I'd just think about boning chicks on a giant pile of money. Like Scrooge McDuck used to do.
Which is exactly what we here in the Chicagoist offices do when you commentors heckle us!
Benjy:
Be fair. I don't think I have EVER heckled you.
@ Benjy:
You're fine (can't bring myself to bash a fellow Sox fan), but the difference between you and a Major League ballplayer is he can actually get some "P In V" with a girl on a giant pile of cash.
My gut tells me blogging doesn't pay much. At least it hasn't for me, yet...
Plumbum, I'm pretty sure Scrooge McDuck never boned any chicks. First of all, an unmarried, old guy who hangs around with a bunch of young kids - his "nephews"? I don't know about that one.
Plus chicks = ducklings, or young ducks. So now you're calling Scrooge a pedophile? What a baseless accusation!
Anyway, I don't think I mind players talking back to fans so long as it remains good-natured. MLB players should be used to it by now, and if anything you'd think they wouldn't want to get into a fight because they'd get their pants sued off of them. Hey... Wait a minute, Scrooge McDuck didn't wear pants. It's all coming together now!
Spav,
Smoking cant be that high on the list above drinking and your dream fling with Alexi.
Any comments from a player should be funnier than what is coming at him from the stands.
'You ain't shit' I mean thats just dumb... How about something like - "I just got paid more for dropping this fly ball than you will all year"