Mariotti: 'In Crazy Sports World, Taser Fine by Me'

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When a suspected terrorist tries to set off a car bomb in Times Square, evacuating much of midtown Manhattan in a scene out of a fright movie, then it seems any sicko act is possible in any public area. It's the end of the world as we know it in 2010, and other than one old rock star, nobody feels fine. Which is why I have no problem with a cop using a Taser gun to subdue a goof who runs onto a field at a ballpark, even if the dude resembles a teenaged Ray Romano in his red T-shirt, khaki shorts and black baseball cap.

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http://jay-mariotti.fanhouse.com/20...04/in-crazy-sports-world-taser-is-fine-by-me/

:rofl: ^ picture is priceless...:rofl:
 

Ace Bandage

The one and only.
This is one case where I agree with Mariotti. If you're going to run onto the field, you deserve to get tased. You paid for a ticket to sit in the stands. That doesn't entitle you to enter the field of play. I think everyone who participates in this should be arrested and charged as well. You can never tell what their intentions are when they enter the field, so they deserve whatever force it takes to restrain them.
 
Probably best to keep them handy. In hockey the players can just beat the ever living shit out of fans if they get unruly. But other sports don't really have as much protection or luxury of having a weapon in their hands.
 
This is one case where I agree with Mariotti. If you're going to run onto the field, you deserve to get tased. You paid for a ticket to sit in the stands. That doesn't entitle you to enter the field of play. I think everyone who participates in this should be arrested and charged as well. You can never tell what their intentions are when they enter the field, so they deserve whatever force it takes to restrain them.

I agree with him too. There's absolutely no reason that they shouldn't be allowed to use them on fans who run on the field. All of this talk of "it's going too far" is just hogwash.
 

PlasmaTwa2

The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
The kid really did have it coming. He wasn't even a good streaker. Had his shirt on and everything.
 

alexpnz

Lord Dipstick
Mariotti is 100% correct. If you run on the field and are running full speed at one of the players or coaches, you deserve a bat to the head or even shot in the forehead with one of those bean bag guns the cops use. Who knows what that idiots intentions are??

Anyone remember that 1st base coach who got jumped by 2 drunk rednecks a few years ago in Chicago?

If a cop shot one of them with a gun they would have deserved that.....In that particular case, it was an assault in broad daylight!
 
Mariotti is 100% correct. If you run on the field and are running full speed at one of the players or coaches, you deserve a bat to the head or even shot in the forehead with one of those bean bag guns the cops use. Who knows what that idiots intentions are??

Anyone remember that 1st base coach who got jumped by 2 drunk rednecks a few years ago in Chicago?

If a cop shot one of them with a gun they would have deserved that.....In that particular case, it was an assault in broad daylight!

Oh shit, I remember that. That was one of the worst things I can remember in sports. And I don't remember players coming to his help. I'll have to youtube that to see if any of the players went to help the old coach.
 
Mariotti is wrong. Athletes are rich investments, and it's up to the owners to provide security to protect their investments.

Athletes can defend themselves. Anyone with a brain could see that this kid had nothing but goofball intentions on his mind.

Install metal detectors at all stadiums and have bomb-sniffing pooches roam around.

Why is it so many people want to see jackboot troops marching around in their public spaces?

Americans are turning into pansies. What was sad was that the Security guard was too fat and stupid to catch this kid. We are a nation of fat people on the front lines... :rolleyes:
 
Mariotti is wrong. Athletes are rich investments, and it's up to the owners to provide security to protect their investments.

Athletes can defend themselves. Anyone with a brain could see that this kid had nothing but goofball intentions on his mind.

Install metal detectors at all stadiums and have bomb-sniffing pooches roam around.

Why is it so many people want to see jackboot troops marching around in their public spaces?

Americans are turning into pansies. What was sad was that the Security guard was too fat and stupid to catch this kid. We are a nation of fat people on the front lines... :rolleyes:

Security guards everywhere are a laughing stock and insult to Americans' intelligence. It is sad how pathetic America has become (some of that is due to quotas and such, such as when I see little 130lb female Chicano rent-a-cops at a ball park, as if they're going to protect me:tongue:).

But I think the point is arming the guards, no? :dunno:
 
I think this was the correct move. He is lucky as hell that he didn't run on the field during a football game. I would have loved to see Ray Lewis deliver a clothesline from hell on this little prick.
 
I agree. All the people that pay to see any event didn't pay to see some stupid person running out and wasting everyones time.
 
Somewhat related, did anyone see SportsCenter recently when (I think) Scott Van Pelt had the line "Don't (Jonathan) Toews me, bro!" Classic.
 
awww..the damn video is gone.:(

No shit? Check back at Youtube. People upload stuff everyday. Plus there were other versions, but they were shit compared to the one I posted.

The media never wanna give these jokers the satisfaction of getting on the TV, which kind of sucks, because I think these things are funny as hell.
 
Mariotti is wrong. Athletes are rich investments, and it's up to the owners to provide security to protect their investments.

Athletes can defend themselves. Anyone with a brain could see that this kid had nothing but goofball intentions on his mind.

Install metal detectors at all stadiums and have bomb-sniffing pooches roam around.

Why is it so many people want to see jackboot troops marching around in their public spaces?

Americans are turning into pansies. What was sad was that the Security guard was too fat and stupid to catch this kid. We are a nation of fat people on the front lines... :rolleyes:

This line, (or one very similar to it) is read before every major sporting event in America:

"Fans, for the protection of the players, coaches, officials, and for your own safety, please do no throw or kick any objects onto the field. In addition, any spectator entering the field of play at any time will be ejected, and subject to arrest."

Fans are warned not to come onto the field. Legally speaking, sports stadiums, while in use are considered private property within public property, much in the same way a persons house is private property while the road in front of it, and sidewalk in front of it are public property. If you trespass on a persons front lawn, you may be subject to arrest. The same principle applies to a sports stadium, if you step onto the field, you're violating the law, and subject to arrest and whatever that may entail.

Besides, if the security guards are already incompetent, why would have metal detectors make any difference? Wouldn't they be just as incompetent at stopping people there?
 
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