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     Country |
Did anyone see the clip from the Brewers vs Pirates game? If so then you know what I am talking about. If not, then here is a little history. During the 7th inning stretch at Miller Park (Brewer's home field) four Park staffers dress up like hot dogs and sausages. They run around the outside of the field and everyone cheers for their favorite to win. When these sausages were going past the Pirates dugout one of the players hit the sausage on the end (closest to the dugout) with a bat. To make matters worse it was a woman in that sausage outfit. I haven't heard what the League is going to do to that player but it better be a good swift kick in the A@@.  | ||
| Darthane |
What the hell is wrong with people? Boot him out, period, never to play again. On top of that, press charges for assault with a deadly weapon. There is no excuse for something like that. | ||
| Dasxb9s |
A quiz... Can anyone tell me who used to throw temper trantrums at visiting stadiums and take a bat to the sinks and toilets?? This was a number of years ago. All this activity seems to be acceptable to sports "superstars".. but let you or me do something as stupid... and we would get fried. | ||
| Dasxb9s |
A hint... K.C Royals | ||
| Mikej |
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/brew/jul03/154027.asp The player/batter/basher/goofball was arrested or at least detained. Not sure of his current status, nor of the status of the women in the suits. | ||
| Mikej |
 ©Photo/Fox Sports Net | ||
| Mikej |
And now for an entirely different view of the events of the evening ... : http://espn.go.com/page2/s/sausagegate/030710.html | ||
| Blublak |
Last I heard this professional icon of the 'All American Pasttime' was arrested and charged with.. Now get this.. DISORDERLY CONDUCT  If you or I (regular folks) had taken a wooden club of ANY sort to anyone (regardless of mascot style clothes or not) we would be charged with a minimum of Assault  with a deadly weapon and Battery. At the very least.. Damn, you or I would of course get the max for it..  Or at they may even take away our motorcycles and make us ride 'Big Wheels' everywhere... I hope MLB (yeah right) does a little more to show that this is not something that can be gotten away with.. Who cares if it was a girl or boy in the suit.. Ok, I'm off the soapbox..  Later, | ||
| Mikej |
Wisconsin's Disorderly Conduct is at times a catch-all law. Basically if you pick your nose in public and someone finds it offensive you can be cited for the nosepick. Same with foul language, or passing gas in a deliberate offensive manner. Anything done to incite a response from someone can get you cited. Now, whacking someone with a baseball bat, if done to incite a negative response from them might be considered disorderly conduct, but if the disorderly conduct charge was made for the aggressive act then it should have been a battery charge. But if the disorderly conduct charge was levied against the bat weilder as a penalty for his interferring with the race, then it wouldn't matter if he used a baseball bat or one of those wiggly foam sticks people wave at basket ball games or if he used one of those big foam finger pointer hand things to interfere with the character's race. The disorderly conduct charge, thinking about it some, is probably an admission by the city attorney that the bat swinger didn't mean to inflict great bodily harm, but they felt they "had" to do something so they slapped his bat swinging hands with the disorderly conduct charge instead. Now, with all that said, disorderly conduct charges can get you into all sorts of additional trouble with all the terroristic meanderings of the law these days. Might even get you restricted from gaining a hunting and fishing license, or get you to loose a child custody case if he's involved in any divorce proceedings. Could also get you banned or indirectly punished in other areas of your life as well. Disorderly Conduct charges, if found guilty, can have far greater consequences than getting found innocent of a battery attempt charge. Sometimes I really dislike some aspects of some legislation that may have been founded with good intentions but ends up costing more problems that it was intended to solve. Did you know you could be cited for disorderly conduct if your motorcycle exhaust is too loud? Yep, almost happened to someone I know. | ||
| Dasxb9s |
No guesses?? George Brett. He did that kind of stuff for years... and has a bridge named after him near the stadium... and a sign proclaiming I-70 past the stadium as "The George Brett Super Highway" and there were bumper sticker back near that time "George Brett for president". Too many people tolerate... to include the criminal justice system... such behavior of celebrities and "sports heros". A person may be way past exceptional in some sport... but a hero is not the same. Someone who endangers their life to save others... or loses their life to save others is a hero... not some sports figure getting paid millions to play a game! Off my soapbox now... | ||
| Fssnoc2501 |
A bit of clarity is in order. Assault is the legal term when one threatens to do bodily harm to another. The actions of the Pirate player is battery, which is the physical act of causing harm to another. In other words what he did was a greater offense than assault, not to be tolerated by anyone especially an "adult" or "professional". Ray | ||
| Bads1 |
He got cited for disorderly conduct $432.00.No charges were brought to Simon's. | ||
| Mikej |
The woman inside the suit was interviewed on the radio this morning and she can't believe how big of a deal this all has become. And to think the city of Chicago was thinking of charging the participants on Jerry Springer with assault and battery charges.  | ||
| Bads1 |
Yeah read it this morning in my Racine paper. | ||
| M2me |
I liked the quote from the local news last night, "Sausages are made to be eaten, not beaten." Everytime I hear about this story I can't help laughing. I know it was a very stupid thing to do and if a fan had done it, that fan would be in big trouble. Still, it's not exactly the crime of the century and I liked how the other two sausages just kept running. It's just funny somehow. | ||
| Cjmblast |
Only in Milwaukee !!! Something to write home about though !! LOL CJM  | ||
| Philip |
the piroots are playing here in houston this weekend. the player was suspended for three games by the league. talk about a major brain cramp! i bet he stunned himself with how stupid a stunt he pulled. thought it was refreshing to here the woman say she had no intentions of sueing. hope the greed monster lawyers don't sway her into changing her mind. | ||
| Road_thing |
A stolen pun too bad not to share: "In this case, there are no weiners!" r-t | ||
| Mikej |
Heard some people talking this weekend about some t-shirts someone made up and sold out of. The saying said something like "Don't bat our dogs", or "Don't whack our weiners", or something like that. Even though I can think of several more slogans it might have been I'll just leave well enough alone and stop here. | ||
| Mzoomora |
Could one of them be "Don't beat our meat"? MZ |
