Boo-Hoo: Yankees Cry Over Teenager Running on Field

I once played in a club baseball game in college over in Roxbury.  Around the 4th inning, I was standing just outside the first base dugout, when a man spilled into right field.  As the umpire approached him, asking him to leave, the man waved a gun, and at least nine police cars moved in shortly thereafter.  That was scary.  An adolescent male giving Nick Swisher a fist pound? Not scary at all.

But Joe Girardi sat on pins and needles in the dugout while the guy ran around during the ninth inning of the Yankees-Tigers game at Comerica Park.

“That can’t happen,” Girardi said. “People have got to get out there and get it. You worry about your guys. I don’t know what he was doing with Swish, tagging him or whatever he was doing. But I worry.”

Apparently the Yankees took issue with how long it took security to get out there and corral the looney.  I don't blame them, I would've waited til he went over and bitch-slapped Alex Rodriguez across the face.

“Luckily that guy was harmless. But you can’t let a guy run out there for a few minutes and go up to players," Mark Teixeira said.  "Most stadiums are great, and security is on them in seconds. That took way too long. I think they were corralling him. I guess that’s their way of doing it here.”

That's pretty much the way they do it in any circumstance, whether the fan is a drunk guy, or a raging bull.  They'll send out multiple people to corral the vigilante and then someone will take him down.  So thank you, Teixeira, for making a really dumb comment.