Philly Fans Not Treating Rays Fans Cordially

Joe Romano a sports columnist for the St. Petersburg Times is complaining that Philly fans are being none too kind to Rays fans - including the children of some of the players. It seems like a typical Philadelphia sporting event - complete with the pelting of Joe Maddon's granddaughter with packets of mustard.

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The way you spell cordially makes me read it with a British accent.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Oct 28, 2008 11:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Typo fixed. I can’t say the same for your British accent.

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Oct 28, 2008 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

In other news: rain is wet.

by Peter Bendix on Oct 28, 2008 12:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The second-best part is the Philly Phan comments on the Tampa article, ranging from cinspiracy theory (“there are no mustard packets at CBP, so it’s all a lie!!!”) to belligerent drunk (“what did those kids expect – that’s what you get when you where [sic] opposing teams’ hats to our stadium!”) to insulting (“yeah, we harass children, but at least we have real fans and not bandwagon jumping, mojito drinking, pansies.”).

The actual best part was Joe Maddon calling out a Philly fan for drinking the wrong beer.

by FredOx on Oct 28, 2008 12:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Philly can be a tough town, and its sports fans are not known for being polite, classy, or least of all sober. Having said that, the report is not very substantiated, and even if it’s totally true, not many fan bases would make a good impression after three hours of beered-up rain delay.

by Jay on Oct 28, 2008 3:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It reminds me of all the reports I see from NFL games now where disgruntled parents are complaining that the fans in the stands said the F word around their child. Know the environment you are putting yourself in

by Roger Dorn on Oct 28, 2008 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I went to a bar the other day & I think some of the patrons may have been intoxicated! Scandalous, I say.

DISCLAIMER: I may be bitter.

by zempf on Oct 28, 2008 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’ll vouch that Clevelanders are not “cordial” even after rain, let alone a delay. I was at the home opener two years ago and an idiot in a Steelers jersey took the full venom of a very cold and wet crowd. He left considerably less well dressed and smelling considerably more of beer and stadium mustard. It happens.

by fwembt on Oct 28, 2008 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m actually kind of upset that they wasted all that good stadium mustard on a gentleman of his ilk.

by hans on Oct 28, 2008 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It’s okay if everyone does it.

by Voltaire on Oct 28, 2008 10:32 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Hey, I have something useful to say!

I actually teach a kid whose father is a part owner of the Rays. He was at the games in Philadelphia and got back to school at 2:50 today, which meant he was in class for 20 minutes. So that was useful.

I asked him how it was and this 13 year old boy went ashen. Somebody yelled “We will r__e all your bit____” at his mother and similarly terrible things were yelled at the other people in his party, including a lot of underage boys and girls. Somebody screamed at a pre-teen girl until she had to put a coat on over her Rays’ t-shirt.

He also got hit with mustard packets but he thought that was funny.

So, yeah. I don’t think there’s much of a defense here.

by afh4 on Oct 28, 2008 6:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs