IGT 7/9/05 vs. PITTSBURGH CRAWFORDS

[seawolf17]

Whoa! What happened? Cliff got into it with a fan? We just got home from CT. (Full report, with photos, from the B-Mets game tomorrow morning.)

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

seawolf17 wrote: Whoa! What happened? Cliff got into it with a fan? We just got home from CT. (Full report, with photos, from the B-Mets game tomorrow morning.)

Yeah, as Floyd was running down Wilson's grand slam some slovenly young guy started to obnoxiously clap in Floyd's face and was shouting crap to him

Its possible he was giving Floyd shit all night and this was the breaking point.

Floyd didn't do anything, except just motion for security to do their thing and they ejected the fan from the stadium

[Theoldmole]

Good for Cliff.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

I cut out after four last night, and caught the rest on tape this morning.

Some late notes: unsurprisingly, I'm unsympathetic to Cliff Floyd's complaint he didn't like the verbal treatment he got from the fan in LF. If there's no contact, and no spitting, etc., but only words, then suck it up and deal with it. That's why many players prefer playing at home, as a matter of fact. The dude got ejected because of what he SAID? If he said anything milder to Cliff than "I've got your kids trapped underground and it'll cost 3 mil to get them free before a bomb explodes" then he's good.

Speaking of which, anyone notice that at first Seaver reported Cliff had an injury, specifically to his arm, a cut on the fence, or a bruise, or a laceration ("one of the two or three" Seaver added--obviously he's been working on his math) but then changed it to "just verbal contact" on viewing the replay? Seaver does that a lot, about a few dozen times a day. "That was an outside heater at the knees. [replay] No, it was higher than I thought, about chest-high. And it was a curveball, not a fastball. And it was on the inside corner. And we're in Pittsburgh, not San Diego..."

it's to his credit that he corrects himself at all (Murphy used to drive me nuts by reporting imaginary things that the replay contradicted without correcting himself at all) but maybe he should try to report only those things he sees, not those that he half-sees. Or maybe he should pay better attention?