Diamondback fans show their (cl)ass

Some towns simply don't deserve sports franchises. Despite playing for a possible trip to the World Series, the Arizona Diamondbacks could not even sell out that crapdome they call a ballpark.

(OK, the Diamondbacks will claim that all tickets were sold, but this game was NOT sold out):

Thousands of Diamondback "fans" came dressed as empty seats

You can forgive Arizona "fans" for their apathy. I mean, the Cardinals are absolutely on fire, and besides...the Diamondbacks have already been to a World Series. Been there, done that I guess. Besides, I think there is an adobe hut convention in town...and you know that downtown Phoenix is such a bitch with all that activity.


What you can't forgive D-back fans for is their idiocy. Because in their minds, this is what playoff baseball is all about:

Yup, that's an 8-minute stoppage in play as D-back "fans" decided to empty the contents of their double-wides onto Chase Field:

What a bunch of morons. I guess the drunken barn dance was sold out...

So what caused the trouble? Well, it was this cheap-shot by D-backs player Justin Upton:

The umpires correctly called interference and a double play. That sent the drunken dolts at Chase Field (who don't know crap about baseball) into a hissy:

A few fans threw bottles onto the field from the upper deck, and then more followed far down the foul lines. Some of them landed near Rockies players...

But wait. This story gets stupider better. Check out Team President Derrick Hall:

"It's too bad it became about the umpires," Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall said. "But I think that showed we don't have such an apathetic crowd, clearly.

"The crowd was obviously showing that they thought the umpires overreacted and once it began to get out of hand, we did all we could do to slow that down and to bring it to a stop," Hall said.

So by Hall's reasoning, debris launching=passionate fans. To try to pin this whole thing on the umpires is ludicrous...the call was correct (in fact an easy call) and neither Hall nor Arizona "fans" have a clue:




Video here.

LeBron is a moron

Dude...:



Uh...LeBron? A little advice. Methinks Cleveland is the WRONG town for you to pull this crap in. And since you are from Cleveland, you should know better.

Perhaps you'd better hope the Indians don't win the World Series this year...especially since you failed to bring Cleveland a championship last June.

Work has me by the...uh...

Well, at least as not as bad as this guy:

Oklahoma City police say that on June 17, Brian Christopher Thomas went into Henry Hudson's Pub wearing a Longhorns T-shirt and quickly became the focus of football trash talk from another regular, Sooners fan Allen Michael Beckett.

The ugliness that followed left Thomas, 32, nearly castrated and Beckett, 53, facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years.

I wonder if Thomas tried to order this beer:

Now the question is...can the prosecutor even find a jury that will convict?

“I've actually heard callers on talk radio say that this guy deserved what he got for wearing a Texas T-shirt into a bar in the middle of Sooner country,” Oklahoma City attorney Irven Box told The Associated Press.

Thomas told police that when he decided to leave and went to the bar to pay his tab, Beckett grabbed him in the crotch, pulled him to the ground and wouldn't let go, even as bar patrons tried to break it up. When the two men were separated, Thomas looked down and realized the extent of his injuries. It took more than 60 stitches to close the wound.

Ouch.


Well, anyway...business is surprisingly good. Which means less time for blogging. So here...back by popular demand...the Leningrad Cowboys:





I'm in danger of becoming a fan. Though I can't get my hair to do that. Here's their website.

Here's the real thing. Bastards won't let me embed...

Travis Henry not a Trojan Man (corrected)

How can an NFL player who just signed a $25 Million contract be almost broke?

Here's how:

Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry has a lot of money. Enough that he has a $100,000 car. Enough that he's spent $146,000 on jewelry. But not enough to take care of his kids.

Of course, he has nine of them, by nine different women.

In addition to not having control over his...uh...Little Henry, seems Travis can't control his spending habits. Which almost landed him in the hoosegow:

DeKalb Superior Court Judge Clarence Seeliger this week ordered Henry to provide $3,000 a month for the Lithonia boy he fathered out of wedlock three years ago with Jameshia Beacham, now 29.

Henry isn't the most thrifty guy, according to court records, so the judge wants to ensure payment by establishing an unusual $250,000 trust that Henry must fund by next spring.

Seeliger wrote that the football player displayed "bad judgment in his spending habits," dropping $100,000 for a car and $146,000 for jewelry.

Meanwhile, Henry fell behind on support payments for his child with Beacham that were mandated by a previous order. Threatened with jail, he borrowed $9,800 from his former team, the Tennessee Titans, to pay the bill, according to court records.

Naturally, Henry is looking for a way out:

His lawyer, Shiel Edlin, said that to his knowledge the trust would be without precedent in Georgia. A quarter-million dollars is a lot of money, even for Henry, Edlin said. "He has some concerns and he's weighing his options."

Records show that Henry's children are scattered across both the American and National Football Conferences — including Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Wellon said Henry talked about gathering them together to watch him at training camp. Indeed, part of the custody arrangement Henry reached with Beacham requires two weekend visits when he is playing pro ball.

Edlin said Henry wants to be a good parent. "I know these are a lot of kids, and there might be some questions about it," he said, "but he's a really committed father."

Yup, this Father of the Year candidate is so "committed"...he mentions none of his children in the "bio" section of his own website.

Of course if he needs to raise money to pay for all of those Travis Jr.'s, perhaps he could go for this endorsement: