It looks like the RNC at Yankee Stadium!!!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

:wtf:

[tridim]

1. What the hell is going on there?

Be nice Yankee fans.

[Fenris]

2. Cops on the field during a baseball game...I LOVE MY POLICE STATE!

:D

[Mojambo]

15. Given the incidents that have happened recently

I'm not so sure I disagree with taking some caution.

It's ugly looking for sure, but with over 55,000 people there I might feel a LOT safer if I were a member of the Red Sox.

Ask that KC coach whether he would have minded having extra police on hand right before he got beat on by a fan.

[enigami]

3. RIOT GEAR !!!!!!!

Must be New York

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. that was definitely weird

:shrug:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. Red Sox vs Yankees aside - WE'RE ALL LIBERALS - WTF???

This is bizarre!

[Endangered Specie]

6. THROW those fucking Yankees OUT!

[NYC Liberal]

11. Which Yankees?

:eyes:

[Endangered Specie]

22. The ones acting up the worst...

but, why not all of them while were at it... Forfiet the game too. ;)

[Amaya]

7. I'm watching this with my son

why are the Yankees fans being such pricks? Throwing crap on the field! :wtf: indeed

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Whatever - baseball is baseball - the shit woul've happened at fenway

its the police presence that is the problem

[Mojambo]

24. Throwing stuff on the field is not just baseball

You're correct that it probably would have happened in other ballparks but that does not excuse it or make it a part of the game.

It should be looked down upon as unacceptable behavior. Because it is.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. requiring riot squads?

come on!

[Mojambo]

28. If you're the umpire who made the call

and you're standing less than 50 ft away from thousands of people who have already shown that they are prone to violence your opinion might be different.

I'm not saying it was the right call. I don't have enough information to decide, but in the end they were only out there for 10 minutes.

Remember, they weren't sent out there without provocation. Fans were chucking dangerous missles towards players and umpires, that's pretty serious so they they reacted (perhaps overreacted) to keep it from escalating.

I can see where their concern was coming from.

[St. Jarvitude]

29. How did all of the Yankees fans get baseballs to chuck at the field?

In the dozens of baseball games I've attended, I've never brought a baseball.

But I totally agree with you. I just knew that there would be Yankees fans bitching about a "police state" (which we do live under, btw) when, really, the prescence of the riot cops was definitely warranted as to guarantee the safety of everyone at the field.

[Mojambo]

10. If they're going to act like this

At least do it after a REAL controversial call.

They are displaying massive ignorance of baseball rules by getting upset about a call that was VERY correct.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. THIS IS AN OVERREACTION BY SECURITY

it blew over quickly

[Mojambo]

17. We don't know what they know

Keep that in mind.

There could have been threats made.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. Its a baseball crowd - there were hundreds of threats made

[sasquatch]

8. I actually feel sorry for the cops for once

:wow:

[Endangered Specie]

12. NYPD... maybe theyll cap a few of the really bad ones

(Jk of course) ;)

[sasquatch]

14. This reminds me of the movie "Cobb"

Where Ty Cobb had so many death threats against him they had police allover the ballpark including along the outfield wall:D

[faithnotgreed]

16. it is.. theres rodriguez and torre and guiliani and riot geared policemen

and some dirty tricks to boot!

[Renew Deal]

18. Exactly

Every fucking block looked like that.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. Sure was

:puke:

[Endangered Specie]

21. Well, lets face it.... Yankees=Republicans

RNC cop presense, yankee game cop presence... makes sense to me.

[gristy]

23. Fox non-coverage of the disruption was very responsible

They didn't show any of the shit that was being thrown on the field. Just close-ups of people while it was going on.

[Mojambo]

25. That's standard operating procedure nowadays n/t

[enigami]

27. Uh Oh it's midnight

bad omen for the evil empire