Yesterday, when we heard about the Red Sox fan who was run over by a Yankees fan, we got a little frothy. Appropriately frothy, that is. There is nothing less justifiable in this world -- with the possible exception of our country's preference for Paris Hilton news to any number of crises in, say, Africa -- than baseball fans taking their fandom so seriously as to actually kill each other. Stupidity doesn't come any less distilled. Fortunately, in something nearing redemption, the deceased man's girlfriend is clearing up any talk of baseball-related beef (via Shysterball):
But Beaudoin's devastated girlfriend Donna Dionne, 29, told the Herald yesterday, "Matt was sticking up for a friend who had been punched by this woman. It had nothing to do with a big baseball rivalry. These stories are wrong." Dionne said Beaudoin's friends, who witnessed the horror, told her the confrontation was sparked when Hernandez punched a female pal of Beaudoin's outside the bar.See? Turns out, this man's death wasn't born of a stupid, overhyped, self-involved baseball rivalry. It was an entirely different brand of senselessness! That makes it so much better!
Oh, but don't worry baseball fans: you can still be morons.
/Slams head against desk. Repeatedly.
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1. Update from Normal, Illinois: Mr Falakos's girlfriend says the fight was not about baseball but a dispute over the merits of deep-dish vs. thin crust pizza. :)
Posted at 6:50PM on May 7th 2008 by GB