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As LeBron James once famously said, "Cleveland! This is for you!"
Things are actually going well for the Guardians as they sit atop the AL Central, a full 29 games ahead of
the last-place White Sox. If anyone should be picking fights in the stands, it's the South Side of Chicago's cellar dwellers.
Alas, some feral, rather fecklessly fighting fans decided to mix it up during the Guardians' 7-1 romp over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday eve. We have multiple angles of the action, too.
https://twitter.com/LiamMurrayCLE/status/1804311955882045484
Looks like the spouses were trading blows as well. Lady in red is quite the firecracker, eh?
https://twitter.com/ConorKilbane6/status/1804314544782647456
Found it difficult to make heads or tails of who's who or what's what here until a rabbit hole search led me to discover that the instigating gentleman in the non-Blue Jays darker blue shirt was rocking merch from Duck Commander. The company has been around for about half a century and was the eventual mastermind of
Duck Dynasty. I would assume he's a Cleveland guy and that this was a case of friendly fire between several drunken locals.
I say that in part because most Canadians do indeed live up to the stereotype of being such kind people. Look no further than the gent in the Vlad Guerrero Jr. jersey who was removing a clear Guardians supporter from the scuffle, only to see Duck Commander wallop him with a semi-on-target sucker punch.
My baseline assumption for
any fight at a sporting event is that booze is involved. Any number of personal reasons can contribute to why people want to resort to violence when they're liquored up enough. If you're at a game, I don't know, sounds like a suboptimal scenario to maybe get kicked out of a stadium for life, or possibly get arrested for assaulting/battering a complete stranger who you'll never see again.
When I brought up the White Sox in the lede, I totally forgot that
this happened between the Guardians and Sox last season, when Jose Ramirez decked Tim Anderson to the dirt, sparking a benches-clearing brawl:
https://twitter.com/ESPNCleveland/status/1687989732678979584
Have Blue Jays supporters
ever engaged in hand-to-hand combat during a live game situation? Why yes indeed.
Several dude bros got into it at a Toronto-Cleveland game from 2016, per the YouTube upload date. It's age-restricted, otherwise it'd be embedded below.
Fan fights ferment fun fodder for alliteration apparently but also topic selections for writing on the Internet. I personally wish we could all just get along. Until we learn that lesson as a human sports-attending species, these sorts of cautionary tales will be covered ad nauseam.
And we never will learn that lesson. So fan fights will be covered in perpetuity. Most self-explanatory, straight forward pro tip ever incoming, y'all: Don't be like these people.
