A fan attending a Texas Rangers game at the BallPark in Arlington fell some 30 feet into the lower bowl on Tuesday night, delaying the game 16 minutes while emergency personnel attended to him. The fall occurred while the fan was trying to grab Nelson Cruz’s foul ball during the bottom of the 5th inning.
The footage below doesn’t show the fall but you can hear an audible gasp from stadium attendees and the shock of the announcers.
According to a report on MLB.com, the fan “was sitting in the front row of section 235 and was reaching for a foul that had sailed over his head and caromed back toward the field.” A witness says the man lost his balance and plunged a terrifying 30 feet.
Ranger’s broadcaster Josh Lewin later reported the man was taken to a local area hospital where he was “able to move all his extremities.”
I’m surprised these falls don’t happen more often.
Shocking headline I know. The ‘man’ who lied to everyone he knew before the money trail conclusively linked him to a dog fighting ring apparently hasn’t been telling the truth about the recent shooting at his b’day party.
Per a report on ESPN, a surveillance video shows Vick leaving three minutes before the shooting occurred. Yet, his lawyer claims Vick was long gone before the shooting took place. I guess it depends on what your definition of ‘long’ is.
8″ at least.
I guess I’ll never understand why people get shot at birthday parties cause I don’t think I’ve never felt the need to arm myself to celebrate a friend’s birthday. I fell off a pony once at my birthday party, but it wasn’t cause the mare was frightened from the gunfire. I just couldn’t ride the pony. By the way, I’ve gotten much better at that as I’ve gotten older .
Whatever happened to Chuck E Cheese anyways?
I’m thinking Vick is done in the NFL. The dude who got shot was a former dog fighting co-conspirator so his days in the NFL are numbered.
I defended Vick’s second chance, but now I say good riddance.
$50 tickets?
The party was promoted on social networking sites as “Michael Vick’s ALL WHITE 30th Birthday Bash” and tickets cost $50.
What sad person charges a cover charge for their own birthday party? Isn’t a birthday party about celebrating with your close friends and all? When did it become a chance to get $50 out of wannabes and hangers on?
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates his fourth round victory over Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon by ripping his shirt off.
With Andy Roddick already eliminated, a Djokovic vs. Federer semi final match looks like a real possibility. Djokovic takes on Yen-Hsun Lu in the Quarters on Wednesday before a possible weekend showdown with R-Fed.
Britain’s Prince Harry threw out the first pitch before the New York Mets game against the Minnesota Twins at Citi Field on Saturday.
From the looks of it he must’ve learned a little something from his American counterparts while serving overseas because Harry’s got a nice delivery and a decent arm.
Just a bit outside.
I’m not really big on reds but I bet the Prince is just Nazi, er I mean nasty in bed. It’s a shame he won’t be King one day.
How about what Lady Gaga thought of his pitch?
Further proof this bitch needs to stay away from baseball.
Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers extended his hitting streak to 20 games on Sunday and it got me thinking about which MLB record will stand the longest. It seems like every year when a player hits safely in 20+ games fans begin to speculate on the attainability of what some see as the most unattainable record in sports: Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak.
So I found this bit of info on MLB.com and was surprised to find eight records that have stood longer than the one held by Marilyn Monroe’s boy toy.
I think Nap Lajoie’s record .426 BA has stood for more than a century for good reason. It’s hard enough to bat .426 in slow pitch softball much less facing major league pitching.
Could a modern-day player surpass Joe DiMaggio? Absolutely. Could a modern-day player hit .426 over the course of a season? Hells No. Joe Mauer led the league last year with a staggering .365 average, that’s 61 points off the record.
Some players manage to hit in the high 300′s for parts of a season and the media gets buzzing about the possibility of a .400 hitter but that’s a full 26 points off of Nap Lajoie’s single-season record. Unless MLB does something to alter the game (not beyond the realm of possibility), it’s the one record I expect to last to ‘infinity and beyond’.
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