And we wonder why kids don’t love the game like they used to. Sorry, Rob, but I can’t imagine the Bambino, Gehrig, or Mantle doing this, or their managers tolerating it if they did.
Robert Perry - 01:09pm on 09/17/2007
he’s cool in my book, i am a yankee fan. with the red sox i don’t care about their fans. but johny damon in toronto caught a 3rd out fly ball and while walking back to the dugout some dude stretched out his arm and offered him 20 bucks for the ball, so damon gave him the ball got the money jogged back the other way, found a little kid and gave him the 20 bucks.
but red sox fans can just forget about kindness, specially after their fans tormented sheffield with batteries and then the shove/beer thing.
gonzo - 01:09pm on 09/17/2007
Pretty immature which is why I’m not going to slam him over it.
Glass houses you know.
The Whistler - 01:09pm on 09/17/2007
Would it have made him feel better to lie? HA ha!
Zsa Zsa - 03:09pm on 09/17/2007
Thank You Rob. As a partisan Yankee fan in the middle of Sox country (Plymouth, MA) I have been unduly subjected to FAR too much whining about this. It was a JOKE, and a damn funny one at that.
Classless jerks ? You mean the kid’s parents that decided this need to go public ? Definitely.
I cannot get enough of the moral high horses, though. As if a 10 year old doesn’t tell his friends they suck every 30 seconds.
BTW, he was only pointing out an objective fact anyhow.
deadrody - 04:09am on 09/18/2007
You defend a ballplayer by comparing him to a 10 year old, deadrody? As if one’s behavior is defensible if it’s better than that at a typical elementary school?
I think next, we’ll start measuring maturity by the behavior we see at a typical WWE event or strip bar. It makes almost as much sense…
Sorry, fellas, but the fact that Sox fans can be jerks too does not excuse Mr. Duncan from being a gentleman while he’s on Mr. Steinbrenner’s dime--for that matter, while he’s playing in stadiums that the taxpayers have subsidized. You want to kill baseball? Let him go uncensured for this.
Robert Perry - 07:09am on 09/18/2007
I’ll bet that that particular autograph will become a big money fetcher!
Zsa Zsa - 07:09am on 09/18/2007
I’m a card carrying member of Red Sox Nation. Not literally, of course.
And even I think that’s funny.
I know some friends who have gone to Yankees-Red Sox games at Fenway who can attest to the language used by some of the kids in this kid’s age range and what Duncan wrote is G Rated.
umm, more like, Shelley Duncan of RED SOX SUCKS!
I agree with others.. He’s a classless jerk!
And we wonder why kids don’t love the game like they used to. Sorry, Rob, but I can’t imagine the Bambino, Gehrig, or Mantle doing this, or their managers tolerating it if they did.
he’s cool in my book, i am a yankee fan. with the red sox i don’t care about their fans. but johny damon in toronto caught a 3rd out fly ball and while walking back to the dugout some dude stretched out his arm and offered him 20 bucks for the ball, so damon gave him the ball got the money jogged back the other way, found a little kid and gave him the 20 bucks.
but red sox fans can just forget about kindness, specially after their fans tormented sheffield with batteries and then the shove/beer thing.
Pretty immature which is why I’m not going to slam him over it.
Glass houses you know.
Would it have made him feel better to lie? HA ha!
Thank You Rob. As a partisan Yankee fan in the middle of Sox country (Plymouth, MA) I have been unduly subjected to FAR too much whining about this. It was a JOKE, and a damn funny one at that.
Classless jerks ? You mean the kid’s parents that decided this need to go public ? Definitely.
I cannot get enough of the moral high horses, though. As if a 10 year old doesn’t tell his friends they suck every 30 seconds.
BTW, he was only pointing out an objective fact anyhow.
You defend a ballplayer by comparing him to a 10 year old, deadrody? As if one’s behavior is defensible if it’s better than that at a typical elementary school?
I think next, we’ll start measuring maturity by the behavior we see at a typical WWE event or strip bar. It makes almost as much sense…
Sorry, fellas, but the fact that Sox fans can be jerks too does not excuse Mr. Duncan from being a gentleman while he’s on Mr. Steinbrenner’s dime--for that matter, while he’s playing in stadiums that the taxpayers have subsidized. You want to kill baseball? Let him go uncensured for this.
I’ll bet that that particular autograph will become a big money fetcher!
I’m a card carrying member of Red Sox Nation. Not literally, of course.
And even I think that’s funny.
I know some friends who have gone to Yankees-Red Sox games at Fenway who can attest to the language used by some of the kids in this kid’s age range and what Duncan wrote is G Rated.
Sheesh! Another cult.