Suing the Mets

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fat, drunk, and Irish is no way to go through life, son.

Amazin'ly 'drunk' fan

DAREH GREGORIAN
Posted: 1:50 AM, October 15, 2010

The 300-pound fan who fell on a woman and broke her back at Shea Stadium was so drunk that he couldn't even chant "Let's Go Mets," the woman's lawyer said yesterday.

Timothy Cassidy was so blasted before his drunken tumble onto lawyer Ellen Massey on Opening Day in 2007 that he could barely walk, was picking fights with random fans and dropping the "L" from the "Let's Go Mets" chants, Massey's lawyer, Joshua Kelner, said in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday.

The lawyer leveled the allegations to bolster his client's contention that the Mets and their concessionaire, Aramark, should be held responsible for his client's injuries for serving the obvious drunk more beer and for failing to have security remove him from the game.

Mets lawyer Carla Varriale said the incident was "random," and it could not have been predicted that Cassidy would tumble down several rows on top of Massey.

Cassidy's lawyer, Brian O'Connor, maintains his client was not drunk, and was pushed by another fan.

[Guest themetfairy]

Edgy DC wrote: Cassidy's lawyer, Brian O'Connor, maintains his client was not drunk, and was pushed by another fan.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Maybe someone sitting near the fat drunk wanted to get rid of him....

[Fman99]

Oh man, if I had a dollar for every fat drunk Mets fan I pushed over a rail onto a random chick at Shea, hoo boy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

"Et's Go Mets"?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Are you drunk?

[G-Fafif]

I thought this was a thread about that longstanding class action suit filed by Met starting pitchers suing for nonsupport.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: "Et's Go Mets"?

Garn! Keith 'Ernandez is gawin' awn 'bout 'is reservations 'gain!

[Frayed Knot]

The Drain in Maine is due Mainly to his Pain.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Daughter of former Mets coach Eddie Yost suing team after security guard's radio falls on her THOMAS ZAMBITO DAILY NEWS STAFF Monday, October 25th 2010, 4:00 AM One-time Mets coach Eddie Yost's daughter is suing the team after she got plunked by a security guard's radio that fell from from an upper deck. Alexis Yost Fougere, 45, needed surgery last week to repair a muscle tear she suffered in her left shoulder blade, her lawyer says. Fougere was watching her father participate in ceremonies at Citi Field honoring the 1969 championship team on Aug. 22, 2009, when the radio fell into Section 329, where she sat with relatives. Her lawyer Gary Slobin said the radio zipped in from Section 424 overhead with such force that Fougere "blacked out." Slobin said right after the incident that Fougere's father's former team promised to take care of her, but then started playing hardball and refused to hand over the incident report. "They [the Mets] told her, 'We'll treat you like family,' but they never responded to her," Slobin said. Fougere - whose father was the team's third-base coach from 1968 to 1976 - is only suing because the team has left her no choice, Slobin said. "She's not a litigious person, but at some point she realized she had no choice," he said. The suit, filed in Queens Supreme Court, seeks to recover the money Fougere has shelled out for medical care as well as for the pain and suffering she's endured. A spokesman for the Mets did not return a call for comment. The suit says the team was negligent for allowing its security guards to mishandle radios. Fougere, of Massachusetts, had hoped the pain would go away with physical therapy, but after a year of living in discomfort, she had arthroscopic surgery. Her father lives nearby and was at her side after the surgery. Yost, 84, was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, where he attended John Adams High School. After an 18-year career with the Senators, Tigers and Angels, he was handpicked in 1968 by then-Mets manager Gil Hodges' to be third-base coach. He held the job for eight years, winning a World Series ring with the Amazin's in 1969. After the Mets, Yost coached for the Red Sox and was in the dugout when Bucky Dent hit the home run that gave the Yankees the American League East title in 1978.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sounds like she has a better case than Ellen Massey.