If you were a fan in the stands, would you react like this for your team?

Question

I'm proud of my Twins, but my fellow fans are embarrassing me.

Twins Beat White Sox In Game Marred By Fan Unrest

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—As Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire stormed off the field following his latest ejection, he punted his cap high over his head and back onto the turf.

The emotional exit fired up his Twins and sparked them to a four-run inning. But it also ignited the Metrodome crowd to nasty results.

Jason Kubel’s three-run homer highlighted an unruly seventh inning in the Twins’ 10-6 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night. The game was stopped for several minutes when fans threw hats and baseballs onto the turf and had the White Sox running for the shelter of the dugout.

“I don’t like to see the game get stopped because of something like that,” Gardenhire said. “I can’t control it. What am I going to do? But my reaction out there led to something and I don’t like it. I felt bad.”

Marty Foster tossed him in the seventh for arguing a called strike on Denard Span, and fans responded by tossing dozens of hats, and several baseballs, onto the field.

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen quickly pulled his players off the field, and the public address announcer warned the announced crowd of 31,493 that the Twins were risking a forfeit if the behavior continued.

“I don’t want anybody to get hurt,” Guillen said. “I think the umpires did a good job taking control of the situation. I wasn’t worried about hats, but I saw a couple balls flying on to the field and thought it was a dangerous situation.”

The fans settled down after about five minutes, and the Twins had a four-run inning to erase a 4-3 deficit. Joe Mauer tied the game with an RBI single and Kubel followed with his homer off Octavio Dotel for a 7-4 lead.

“There were some things we don’t want to see. People throwing things on the field, all that kind of stuff,” Minnesota’s Justin Morneau said. “It almost cost us the game. It was good that it stopped, but everyone was on their feet, yelling and cheering. It kind of sparked us.”

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Answer 1

Out of control? Give me a break. I was at the game and the only thing that I saw on the field were about a dozen hats, three baseballs, some paper, and a nerf football.

Embarrassed? No, not at all. Gardy got the fans into it with his arguing, and we scored 4 runs that inning. It was unnecessary but I'm not embarrassed. It's a game against the Sox and we're getting close in the division. Of course the games are going to be intense.

Answer 2

Very surprised to see this in Minnesota....................Philly, New York, L.A.............No but in Minnesota I was very surprised. The game should be called immediately...................Sad Sad Sad.........and they say NASCAR fans are bad............................

Answer 3

i wouldnt myself but being there might get u cought up with others and frustrated and maybe go through with it

Answer 4

No, I have more class than that.  Surprised this happened in MN. Happens on a regular basis at Wrigley but never gets this much press.

Answer 5

What are you so overly concerned about. I've been to dozens of games that are like this.

The only thing I see thats wrong is the fans shouldn't be throwing anything on the field; thats when someone can get hurt. No need for everyone to act like they're in Philadelphia.

Answer 6

It's a strong way of showing the Fan base thats been hiding behind a mask...ESPN could go on an hour about Yankee fans booing but when the Twins did something like this so surprising and may I say for the hat throwers supportive ESPN will say fans went crazy..Now how about those Cubs?

Answer 7

I was watching that game.

That was one of the most pathetic,stupid,mediocre things I''ve ever seen (besides the time when i watched the Cubs in the playoffs last year,of course)

They kept on boo'ing and booing and Ump:"STRIKE TWO" fan response: BOOOOOOOOO  i was like,i dont get it.I mean seriously they are so ignorant cuz he DID hold the bunt out too long and then Gardenhire got thrown for whining and Ozzie was screaming at that dude in the white t-shrit in the stands about who-knows-what and it was stupid.then it was total chaos cuz they threw batteries,golf balls (where they got those,idk),baseballs,food wrappers,anything they could think of.I was like "whoa,im not going there anymore" (was thinking about taking a trip) and it was stupid,the fans are stupid,and the Welke brothers are also stupid.I still don't understand what that was about.

Answer 8

I'm sorry but they were out of control i wanted the chisox to win and whats with the fan fighting with ozzie hes going to say some @!!@ bleeps you no lol im a yanks fan so go sox(chisox that is)