(source: http://danugglawearinguggs.tumblr.com/)
This year, I've been too busy to watch a lot of games, but man, I love all the weird and wonderful stuff going on around the edges.
A couple of quick hits from the three most obnoxious fan bases in baseball, according to a Men's Journal Survey.
1) Philadelphia. Since no Phillies fans have gotten around to intentionally vomiting on little girls this year, it's up to the mascot to pick up the slack in the Philadelphia Department of Jackassery. The Philles Phanatic ("the most sued mascot in sports," according to Wikipedia) was sued last week for grabbing a wedding guest and dumping her into a hotel pool.
"The Phanatic suddenly picked up both Peirce and her lounge chair and tossed both into the pool, according to [the lawsuit].
This isn’t the first time the Phanatic’s been accused of being too fanatical: in 2010 the Daily News found he’d been sued at least three other times in the last decade, once for hugging someone too hard. In 2010, a woman attending a Reading Phillies game with her church group claimed he sat on her legs, making her arthritis act up and ultimately led to a knee replacement, a lawsuit alleged." (Philly.com)
"The Phanatic suddenly picked up both Peirce and her lounge chair and tossed both into the pool, according to [the lawsuit].
This isn’t the first time the Phanatic’s been accused of being too fanatical: in 2010 the Daily News found he’d been sued at least three other times in the last decade, once for hugging someone too hard. In 2010, a woman attending a Reading Phillies game with her church group claimed he sat on her legs, making her arthritis act up and ultimately led to a knee replacement, a lawsuit alleged." (Philly.com)
2) New York Mets: Johan Santana threw the Mets' first-ever no-hitter, and, true to baseball's crass commercial attitude, the Mets are selling $50 replica game tickets for lucky fans who weren't actually there but want to pretend like they were. After 8,019 games without a no-hitter, I guess the Mets wanted to cash in while they could.
Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey followed up with a two complete-game shutouts, one of them a one-hitter that the Mets are seeking to turn into another no-hitter by trying to turn a bad David Wright throw into an error. Replica game tickets will be discounted to $49 because nobody respects a no-hitter that was awarded on appeal, not even R.A. Dickey.
"I think the asterisk beside the no-hitter would get more attention than the no-hitter, you know?" Dickey told the Daily News. "Plus, you're not pitching the eighth, ninth inning with the pressure of a no-hitter going, you know? It would be a little bit cheap."
New York Yankees: I guess I'm not the only one who finds Nick Swisher unbearable.
“Everything about (Swisher) is annoying, from his mannerisms to his always wanting to ‘bro’ it down,” an unnamed American League veteran told [Men's Journal]. “Being around him is just exhausting.”
3) San Francisco Giants: A Giants fan casually hovering past McCovey Cove on a JET PACK to watch Matt Cain pitch? Cain, not wanting to be shown up, went ahead to pitch a perfect game.
BONUS: Check out my friend Ben's awesome page, Dan Uggla Wearing Uggs, the source of my photoshop of the day.
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