Totally Embarrased At Tonites Fans

[D-Dogg]

IEric Byrnes was on Bickley and MJ this morning. He said he had no problem with the fans' reaction, but he obviously didn't condone throwing items on the field. He said his problem was with the fans that decided to stay home.

He said that at one point yes, but the rest of the interview it was clear he didn't give a flip. Going as far as to say people were waaay overreacting to it and that he's had tons of things thrown at him before in his career and we are talking about at worst, a few water bottles. He made it very, very clear he didn't think it was a big deal.

 

[Gambit]

I was at the game. I enjoyed the bottle throwing. It actually woke me up from being half asleep watching the most boring sport in the world.

Baseball can be boring, but it can also be the most thrilling, intense, dramatic of all sports. If you still feel it's boring in Game 7, the D-backs down by 3, bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, Chris Young at the plate, then you might want to check for a pulse.

 

[crisper57]

He said that at one point yes, but the rest of the interview it was clear he didn't give a flip. Going as far as to say people were waaay overreacting to it and that he's had tons of things thrown at him before in his career and we are talking about at worst, a few water bottles. He made it very, very clear he didn't think it was a big deal.

I kind of feel the same way as Byrnes, except I was in the lower deck when stuff started hitting around me. Not cool.

New Rule for AZ Fans: If you absolutely have to throw something on the field, make sure you have the arm to reach your target.

Hopefully we fired-up the home team and the place will be just as crazy tonight.

4 arrests and 15 ejections...Yeah, all AZ fans are classless.

 

[D-Dogg]

New Rule for AZ Fans: If you absolutely have to throw something on the field, make sure you have the arm to reach your target.
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[D-Dogg]

Baseball can be boring, but it can also be the most thrilling, intense, dramatic of all sports. If you still feel it's boring in Game 7, the D-backs down by 3, bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, Chris Young at the plate, then you might want to check for a pulse.

Playoff baseball isn't boring.

 

[Mulli]

Playoff baseball isn't boring.

Unless you are a Cub fan!!

Hey-00!

 

[azsouthendzone]

I am glad to see the AZ sports fans rise up and show some stones for once. We always get kicked around in our home stadiums and that will have to stop eventually. I saw a clip of a fight in the stands, and for whatever reason, whenever that happens everyone usually blames the az fan and assumes the opposing fan is just there to be a Mr. Rogers neighborhood good sport, which is usually the opposite. I've been cussed at and disrespected my whole life in my home stadiums by complete morons and I am happy to see what happened last night. As far as the call goes, I think bad officiating gets off the hook too many times in pro sports. People pay a lot of money to go watch a clean game, and Ed Donoghy and other bad refs mess it up. No one was in danger, and the Rockies coming off the field was a joke. What happened? Did Holliday get hit with a piece of popcorn? Keep it up D-Backs fans. Let everyone in the USA know you don't come in here and disrespect our home.

 

[Scott MS]

Baseball can be boring, but it can also be the most thrilling, intense, dramatic of all sports. If you still feel it's boring in Game 7, the D-backs down by 3, bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, Chris Young at the plate, then you might want to check for a pulse.

True. I was being sarcastic about it being boring. Playoff baseball is exciting, although last night's game lacked any real drama for the home team because the D-Backs couldn't get anything going.

For me the real memory will be the fans booing, the bottles being thrown, and the team coming off the field. At one point I really thought things may get real ugly, but it was pretty tame.

 

[abomb]

Overreation.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1012abrk-ChaseField-ON1012.html

Looks like beer sales WERE suspended on Thursday night.

 

[Jersey Girl]

So no one can enjoy a beer because a few people threw stuff on the field? Not cool.

I actually thought it was great. It was nice to see passion out there. Plus, it reminded me of home. : Philliesfan:

Who cares what people will think? They'll talk about it for two days or so and move on to another story. No big deal.

 

[crisper57]

Was I at a baseball game? With all the noise, I thought I was at the FBR Open.

 

[AZ Shocker]

Wanted to add another thought to this topic...

The umps and/or the Colorado pitcher could've done a lot to prevent the crowd getting crazy. After the called "interference" at second base...it took forever to get the next pitch thrown. Geez...pitch the ball already and things would have simmered down in a hurry.

TBS actually showed the miced ump go over to the Colorado coach to explain what they were gonna to do and he even stated when we get back out there...get the pitcher to throw a pitch quickly.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

wouldn't beer sales already of been suspended as traditional last call is the 7th inning stretch?!

 

[crisper57]

Then never suspended selling beer in my section until the end of the 7th. Thought it was weird.


BTW: Greatest Intro to an Article on the Subject so far:

PHOENIX -- They had spent the days leading up to the National League Championship Series expressing admiration and kinship for each other. The D-backs and Rockies insisted they were two of a kind, brethren in arms.

Neighbors prepared to turn the NLCS into a mutual lovefest.

Well, it didn't take long for the kissing cousins to turn into kicking cousins, and for the block party to turn into a rolling-block party. The love lasted about as long as D-backs fans' reputation for being passive.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp...id=2262127&vkey=ps2007news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

 

[Treesquid PhD]

There are alot of ******* out here that want a passionate courteous upper middle class fan base, mainly the media idealists like Bordow. Always worrying about what someone else thinks. **** I say.

Look give me a fan that chucks something on the field over a rich scottsdalian contractor calling his buddies on his cell phone, because he is in the back round of the dugout shot.

 

[crisper57]

There are alot of ******* out here that want a passionate courteous upper middle class fan base, mainly the media idealists like Bordow. Always worrying about what someone else thinks. **** I say.

Look give me a fan that chucks something on the field over a rich scottsdalian contractor calling his buddies on his cell phone, because he is in the back round of the dugout shot.

Wow. You sat by that guy too?

 

[Lefty]

ESPN article.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2007/news/story?id=3059863&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab5pos2

What proceeded was a hail of boos, then bottles -- some of them filled with beer -- raining down from the upper deck in left field, just to the left of Arizona's bullpen, as well as right field too. All Hurdle needed was one look at Matt Holliday, his left fielder and MVP candidate, standing in the line of fire to call his team off the field.

Holliday seemed unimpressed with the spectacle.

"It wasn't that big a deal; I wasn't necessarily scared at all," he said, then added with a facetious tone, "I'll take my chances. I lift weights for a reason. Mayhem starts breaking out on the field, I'll just jump in there and muscle them."


"I was shocked because I've never seen anything like that from these fans," said Rockies reliever Brian Fuentes, who said it was equally bad in right field, where his team's bullpen is. "It didn't show very much class. ... Usually, I would expect that out of Shea [Stadium] or Philly."

 

[D-Dogg]

"It wasn't that big a deal; I wasn't necessarily scared at all," he said, then added with a facetious tone, "I'll take my chances. I lift weights for a reason. Mayhem starts breaking out on the field, I'll just jump in there and muscle them."

"It didn't show very much class. ... Usually, I would expect that out of Shea [Stadium] or Philly."

Class is over-rated.