At this point, I’ll start taking Moral victories from the Royals

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Tito

And yes, making 13 year old boys cry is a moral victory:

I was at an Orioles game, sitting pretty far back in left-center, right next to the visitors’ bullpen. In Camden Yards, the bullpens are on a hill, so you can look directly into the bullpen dugout. The players are maybe 15-20 feet away behind a nylon net. I’m not much of a heckler, but sitting in front of us were three fat kids, around 12-13 years of age. They had no parental supervision, so, as you can imagine, they wouldn’t shut up. For seven innings, they harassed the Royals bullpen with the dumbest insults imaginable. “You suck!” seemed to be the prevailing theme of their attack.

After the seventh-inning stretch, the players struck back. “Hey, fat kids! Look at this!” The entire section looked over to see three Royals pitchers waving Kit Kat and Snickers bars. The fat kids went silent. One of the kids even started crying! A few minutes later, security came over and took the kids away. Not only did they lose the heckle war, they got tossed from the game. The entire section cheered their departure.

Joel Curtis

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