What’s The Point Of Banning Fans From Games?

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There are two new trends in sports this summer: More fans acting disrespectfully towards players by throwing things at them, and leagues doing the only thing they can, ban them from future games. This trend reached Major League Baseball last week when a Yankees Stadium “Bleacher Creature” threw a baseball at Alex Verdugo of the Boston Red Sox. By the end of the afternoon the fan has been identified and banned from all 30 MLB ballparks. To which I ask, what is the point? What do sports leagues believe they are achieving by banning unruly fans for life? 

The “Bleacher Creatures” of Yankees Stadium are well-known for doing a role call of all the team’s players in the top of the first inning and have never been shy about speaking to or yelling at opposing players during game. Their self-created involvement in games is heightened when the rival Red Sox come to town, and, of course, when the beer is flowing for five innings. 

To summarize: Alex Verdugo threw his warmup ball into the stands, intending for it to go to a Sox fan. A young Yankees fan caught it and the crowd chanted to throw it back. The fan threw it back, it hit Verdugo, and Sox fans help point out the fan. pic.twitter.com/hLoum42n80

— Lunch Break Baseball (@LunchBreakBB) July 18, 2021

It was in the sixth inning Sunday when a baseball was thrown at Boston’s Alex Verdugo after an afternoon of friendly banter between the player and the crowd. After the game, Verdugo was dumbfounded by what happened when he said:

“There’s no reason to ever throw stuff back on the field, ever. There really isn’t … As fans, bro, y’all gotta be better. It’s just that simple. I don’t care how much you hate a team or how much of a rivalry (there) is, you don’t throw shit at people, man.”

It was quickly announced that the fan in question was banned from every Major League Baseball ballpark … to which I say, so what? It is not likely this fan spends much money on tickets, and other than the sizable beer tab he is no longer paying Yankees Stadium for, will any stadium really miss not having this fool there? 

There is also a question of how every team will manage to keep him out of their ballpark since there are plenty of ways to buy tickets without having your name revealed to the home team. Will there be a retired secret service agent stationed at every ballpark watching out for this person?

With all that happened last weekend in Washington, DC, I would hope that stadium security would have better things to watch out for than one person who, true, was a danger to those on the field, but is not exactly on the terrorist watch list.

Instead of wasting their time and ours with meaningless press notes about banning fans like this, every sport league should allow the local authorities to stage a “Perp Walk” of this fool out of the stadium or arena, allowing his family, friends, and employer (if he even has one) to see this person enjoy their 15 minutes of fame. Perhaps, after a few days and nights in a gated community, this person can then go home and explain why they lost their job and are now the laughingstock of their neighborhood over a few too many drinks and a serious bout of stupidity.

Leagues don’t need to ban fans like we saw on Sunday, they need to push for stronger laws so when they do act up, there is a better penalty awaiting them. Do I think this person’s name and photo should be given to the Boston Red Sox so they can keep him out of Fenway Park? Of course, but I also wouldn’t mind if Alex Verdugo saw the photo, just in case the two people cross paths since I am sure the Red Sox outfield would love to have a chat with this person.

What happened on Sunday was criminal and needs to be treated as such. Because banning a fan is pointless for a team and league to do and is clearly not a deterrent for fans to continue to act up. Unless and until a judge has a chance to weigh in on a clown like this, it is every league and franchise that is being laughed at … that is, until, goodness forbid, someone actually gets hurt, then, and only then will leagues take this problem seriously and treat it as the problem it is. 

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