Amir Garrett giving it back to a fan
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Royals pitcher Amir Garrett was fed up with a White Sox fan heckler Tuesday night, and got even with him.
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Yes, this reminds me of that time i traveled to Green Bay, and spit on Aaron Rodgers at practice, great memories. 🤔
According to the fan, he told Garrett that he stunk and that Javy Baez owned him. Garrett went inside, came out, he told him the same things again, then Garrett threw the water at him. The fan told him to keep it coming. And then the fan said he was surprised when the official came over and tried to blame the entire thing on him.
If that fan had thrown the water at that player in this situation, how would the world react? I can only imagine...
This is proof that fan obnoxiousness is out of hand. He should have been removed as soon as he started the taunting. It does not come with the price of the ticket to behave so poorly and become part of the game. Sheesh.
I've never cared for hecklers myself, Garrett should go to the fan's workplace and heckle him while he's at work, see how he likes it.
Totally unnecessary. Long ago, I was at a Dodger/Padres game in San Diego..... I had front row seat on the left side of the infield.... Right behind third base. Tommy Lasorda was the Dodger third base coach.....I was the jerk dumb as* kid who was heckling Dodger left fielder Von Joshua....Anyway, Tommy had enough of my stupidity. He came over to me, leaned on the railing and just looked me straight in the eye with those Big Baby Blues of his......he never said a word.....nothing........ I felt like crawling under a rock. A Life Lesson learned. He was a leader of men.....I miss him and I miss Jo, his wife......they're gone now.....
R.IP. ........A Lovely And Loving Couple....
They both bled Dodger Blue!
Soooooo......is the board consensus that heckling is not allowed? This is both new and news to me.
Heckling is such a pathetic thing, what is the purpose of it, to get into a players head so you can mess him up, make him miss a shot, make him swing at a pitch and miss? Is that really how people want their team to win? Let the athletes do their job, they don't come to my workplace and bother me when I'm trying to do my job, show them the same courtesy. Just my opinion.
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Did you always feel this way? Just curious. I actually like and appreciate the fans trying to interact with the players. Ive said this before, I'm 46 and over the last 25 years plus I've only been to literally a couple live pro sporting events. Two I believe. As a kid and teen, I went to games in Boston. I probably didn't do any heckling, as I didn't have that type of personality to do it then. I would hesitate to take my kids to games, depending on what kind of seats I had, because I understand that the crowd can be raucous. Heckling can even take the form of a great sign. Or a spontaneous chant. Heckling could be specific, like you study a players analytics before the game and you shout out his weaknesses. In the case above, if the guy is telling the truth, he did not use profanity. And the player threw the water on him. We've seen this type of thing, but reversed, over the last few years and there have been times when the players are using words like assault and racism.
I'm all for crowd noise against the opposing team when they're playing in your stadium, getting loud, that's part of playing away games. Signs don't bother me as long as they're not derogatory. Outside of that, I just leave the athlete alone and let him do his job, I want to see him at his best, uninterrupted, and if he beats us then hats off. Some of these guys, like the guy in the video, are just annoying, constantly running their mouths. I wouldn't want my team to win because of something I said to a player.
Yoga Berra was really on to something when he said that “baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” Athletes don’t just do; they think. Decisions have to be made in an instant, and it takes a strong mind with excellent sports awareness in order to know and predict the game.
Sports played at the professional level demand a lot, both physically and mentally, from players. They are competing against not only the other team or opponent, but against themselves, as well. An athlete’s physical limitations and mindset are forces to be reckoned with. Performing under pressure can be difficult for anyone, but doing so at the national level, in front of millions of fans both in the stadium and at home makes it even harder.
So, where do spectators fit into all this? While sports fans typically don’t have any effect on influence on an athlete’s physical ability, fans have the power to make or break some professionals’ psyche and can undermine concentration.
Heckling no, good natured banter yes. When I would go to games at the fens in Beantown in the early 90's, there was a group that sat behind right field that would politely bug the opponents RFer. Was great entertainment, and stars like Ken Griffey Jr. would banter back between innings. All great fun and respective, no problem with that.