Before that epic grand slam, you may recall, Alex Avila hit a home run, a woman caught the ball and then some Sox superfan ripped it out of her hands and threw it back on the field. Yahoo Sports reports he spent a good part of the night being a racist jerk.
Fans in Section 42 of the stadium confirmed that he directed multiple slurs at 25-year-old Angelo Sikoutris, a Detroit Tigers fan from Brooklyn, including a reference to Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager whose shooting death sparked a national firestorm and prompted fierce debate about modern-day racism.
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Well, then
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 9:19am
I guess we missed that gentleman when we were playing "Spot the Negro at Fenway" last night at the limo pool while waiting for security theater to conclude.
spot the what!? wow, you're disgusting.
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 9:34am
Adam, overt racism on uhub... not cool.
spot that sarcasm!
By bosguy22
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 9:39am
Try playing, it's fun.
Funny....it was
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 9:50am
a black guy (Driver Joe!)who started this little tradition. Maybe you can explain then why we don't see (m)any black people at Fenway? Or maybe you can explain why this story was missing from both of our two newspapers and their websites?
I'll go further than that..
By Finn
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 8:24pm
I'll go further than that...can anyone explain how the attendance of African-Americans at any MLB game has dropped across the board? http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/04/0...
i have seen a ton of these
By SatansFist
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 6:40pm
"American Americans"
Whoops...edited
By Finn
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 8:25pm
Whoops...edited
I'm going to take a wild
By ennon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 8:37pm
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that racist fans culture may factor into that
WHY?
By marjorie peskin
Wed, 10/16/2013 - 4:55am
It's money. The cost of a decent seat is so expensive it could cover a weeks worth of food for a family of 4. People choose what they need over what they want. Which is why I haven't been at Fenway since 1998. I lived in Silicon Valley for 5 years and saw every Sox game played at Oakland. The price of a fabulous seat was ~$25. That I can afford. But Fenway prices are way beyond me. Add parking, snacks, a T-shirt and a ball for the kids and you're talking $400 for a day at Fenway with that family of 4.
Well...
By bosguy22
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 9:57am
I think we're jumping the gun on the guy being a "racist". Has he denied someone a job based on race? Has he beaten someone up based on raced? Or, while drunk, did he call a black guy (who maybe looked like Trayvon?) a name? Not a racial slur, just a name.....
Maybe you missed this part of the story...
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:00am
I dunno, call me crazy, but that's racism to me.
Question is why did it take
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:36am
Question is why did it take the security staff so long to kick this guy out of the ballpark?
So if I
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:39am
Said "go back to the burbs" (which I am) to you, that's racist. Maybe the fact that you think only blacks live in the ghetto is rather racist.
or it was a joke about how
By zetag
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:54am
or it was a joke about how Detroit is run down, bankrupt, and in many places resembles an addict ridden ghetto?
This is just one fans observations ... how did he treat others wearing Detroit jersey's? Saying he was a jerk to all Tigers fans wouldn't really help his racism allegations though, would it?
Why didn't anyone report this guy?
By Stevil
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:14am
Should have had his ass escorted right out - updated - I guess they did - but still why didn't anyone call security earlier - not exactly appropriate behavior at Friendly Fenway.
They used to have the "Friendly Fenway" announcements for a number you could call (text?) - I don't recall them doing that this year - but have only been to a couple of games.
If those are season tix - whoever they belong to - if these stories are verified, they should be pulled.
WTF were the fans in the rows
By tenean
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 1:07pm
WTF were the fans in the rows around him doing? Fans gotta police themselves in this instance. If he was going THERE with the race bit, no way he should have been tolerated for that long. He should've been tossed just on that.
I was in the grandstands last night and there were a few sloppy drunks, nothing malicious and certainly no race stuff. The few Detroit fans weren't getting any flack. Plenty of security and cops on hand.
If I heard someone going anywhere close with a remark like that, he would've been gone in a matter of moments. C'mon bleachers, get on it.
They will toss them in a heartbeat
By tachometer
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 4:56pm
I was at a playoff game against the Yankees in '04 with a friend and a couple of his friends from NYC (born and bred) who were rooting & geared for the Yankees. They are both Indian descent and some local mouth-breather started dropping some pretty offensive comments based on that rather than their team allegiance. I tipped off the security guard behind our section and they immediately went on the move (moved to within earshot and tossed them at the next comment). No regrets, as a matter of fact I hoped they spent a shitload on scalped tickets.
booze and a$$holes don't mix...
By Shawn
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:04am
Guy sounds like a major league chump.... His mother must be proud...
Treyvon...
By RandomHookup
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:32am
Just a random name, right?
So unless someone is shouting
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:35am
So unless someone is shouting actual epithets they cannot be considered racist? I suppose it's not racism unless there is a burning cross.
so...
By bosguy22
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:29am
So if someone makes a dumb joke while drunk, it automatically makes them a racist?
Racism
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Explain to me how you can assume that this person believes either of those based on the fact that he called a black guy Trayvon. What he the guy was asian and he called him Jackie Chan. What if it was an Irish guy and he called him Sully?
Are you
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:41am
fucking serious? I guess he took those "We are all Trayvon" t-shirts just a little too seriously? The crack about going back to the ghetto must have been a cleverly disguised commentary on the economic blight that Detroit is currently suffering, that as Rush postulates was caused by Democratic mayors, amirite?
Feeding the trolls against my better judgment
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:50am
It's telling that you think Trayvon is just another public figure on the same level as Jackie Chan. I would consider it racist if someone yelled "Jackie Chan" at a random Asian person too, but the two instances aren't at all equivalent. Considering that Trayvon Martin was shot and killed, invoking his name is an implicit threat.
grasping at straws...
By bosguy22
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 12:33pm
Really? Calling someone Trayvon means you're going to kill them? Does calling someone a George Zimmerman mean you're going to beat them up?
Words don't mean things! For
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 12:57pm
Words don't mean things! For example, in the film Dog Day Afternoon, when Al Pacino starts chanting Attica, he wasn't doing it to bring up the excessive police force at the riot in order to connect it to the police presence outside of the bank, he was just doing it because he has Tourette's.
Yeah calling an Asian guy
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 12:35pm
Yeah calling an Asian guy Jackie Chan (unless he's actually Jackie Chan) and an Irish guy Sully (this is assuming you don't know this guy at all) are pretty racist. Hope that helps.
"Discrimination or prejudice
By anon
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 11:07am
"Discrimination or prejudice based on race."
He didn't call a white guy Trayvon.
and...
By bosguy22
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 3:22pm
what judgement did he make? how did he discriminate?
Stop
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:47am
How the hell do you start blogging about the Sox in Oct.. Whats next you first Pats blog in Jan followed by your in depth analysis of the B's in Apr.
This site should stick to its tradition of White Guilt and Bike Lane hysteria.
Right? That's why I always go to
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:47am
Barstool Sports for their unique perspective on the Yellin nomination and why Paul Krugman could beat George Will at arm wrestling.
You might want to look before you sputter
By adamg
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 11:56am
Amazingly, I've written about the Sox before this morning. Granted, hardly to the extent that you'd expect from a sports site, but then, I'm no sportswriter, and I've noticed in the past Sox items don't tend to attract much attention (see point about me being no sportswriter).
But have a nice day, sir.
Oooo
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 3:17pm
Earlier today, I apologize! Sorry I don't own a schedule for the bandwagon.
However
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 8:29pm
You know the short bus schedule quite well.
Which of those do you show up for, Anon?
By Sally
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 12:37pm
White Guilt or Bike Lanes? Because you seem to be here all the time leaving dumbass comments.
Because
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 2:05pm
All anon's are the same person. Way to generalize, maybe I should go back the the Herald comment section right.
Thanks for the first good laugh of my morning
By Sally
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 9:14am
Let me apologize profusely for...let me get this--not being able to tell you dumbass Anons apart.
Please--get a screen name and a sense of humor, 'kay?
Did The Woman Get Her Ball Back?
By Elmer
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 12:35pm
.
Racism, blah blah blah
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 1:55pm
It would be far more prescient for us to eviscerate this piece of (expletive) for putting his hands on a woman. Can we please steer this back towards common sense and acknowledge that putting your hands on a woman is 100 times worse than just saying some words (and not even the "n" bomb, according to these accounts) to a black guy?
Cool story, bro.
By Scratchie
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 2:58pm
Cool story, bro.
So I should find your sister or wife or mother
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 4:24pm
And forcefully pull at her hands?
Only if you want them to beat
By Scratchie
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 4:26pm
Only if you want them to beat you up.
How would we look into
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 3:05pm
the future to eviscerate this piece of shit?
By staring into a ball
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 4:27pm
Oh yeah, the guy threw it back onto the field.
Quick! Somebody call the
By zetag
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 3:29pm
Quick! Somebody call the wambulance!!
They're both pretty bad and
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 3:35pm
They're both pretty bad and that he did both makes him doubly worse. There. Simple.
Do you know what prescient
By Ohnoimanonymous
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 7:06pm
Do you know what prescient means? Do you think using the word "eviscerate" makes you come off as intelligent? Do you really think grabbing a ball out of someones hands qualifies as "putting hands" on them? All of your comments make you seem like a schizo... sticking up for women online isn't going to help you lose your virginity any faster.
And to the guy who's trying to say this guy isn't racist, I have no idea how you could come to that conclusion. You're really reaching and I have no clue why unless he's your friend
And to the guy who's trying
By Scratchie
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:24pm
Because obviously, anyone who thinks there could possibly be any racist implication in telling a black man to go back to the ghetto is the REAL RACIST!!![tm].
Detroit is pretty ghetto. Is
By zetag
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 12:15pm
Detroit is pretty ghetto. Is it still racist if it's true? Did he tell any white tigers fans to go back to the ghetto?
I have no dog in the fight, I just think it's funny that you guys are getting worked up over this when literally no one else in the world cares.
I know what prescient means
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 2:53am
I don't think using eviscerate makes me come off as intelligent, I know it does. Watch the video, he clearly grabs at the woman's hands. I lost my virginity in 2007. And you're a pussy for not using your real name.
I don't think using
By Scratchie
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 9:02am
Free clue: when you have to tell people how smart you are, maybe you aren't as smart as you think. #protip
Here's an idea
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 10:03pm
Why don't we tell all loudmouth snowflake white guys that think that anybody cares what they think is and isn't racism to STFU?
You sound
By anon
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 6:51am
Like you're talking about cyclist. Loudmouth snowflake whites. I personally would have said, "loudmouth, snowflake, old, liberal, whinny, suburban whites". Mmmm that sounds about right, you should go back to the Mother Jones comment section.
you should go back to the
By Scratchie
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 9:01am
Er, zing?
Well
By bosguy22
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 8:52am
Is calling a white person racist?
School yourself
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 9:26am
http://racialequitytools.org/home
Great - now thanks to this
By Finn
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 3:49pm
Great - now thanks to this dick, the entire country will be again be jumping on the 'Bostonians are the most racist people on earth' bandwagon when any reasonable person would know that they are no more or less racist than any other city on earth.
Reason number 6,184...
By FlyingToaster
Mon, 10/14/2013 - 4:11pm
... that when WarriorGirl wants to see a baseball game, I'm taking her to Pawtucket.
I've been to Fenway once (wedding present); the "fans" were drunk and disgusting and denigrating to everyone who wasn't themselves and their "bros".
[OT]Adam, I think you're attracting a lower class of troll. Yeesh.
You must have had rather shitty seats.
By anon
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 9:29am
Any box seats, monster or state street pavilion seat are great. You obviously just don't know the place.
Every stadium has a section with shitty fans. Look at soccer, at least we don't charge the field and beat players.
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