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I've always liked the Wrigley Field tradition of fans throwing back home runs hit by visiting players. Considering most fans will never get a chance to catch a home run, giving up the ball, a once-in-a-lifetime souvenir, just because a guy wearing the wrong color jersey hit it to you is the ultimate sign of fan loyalty.

That said, there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. The right way is to catch it, wait a few moments until everyone in your section gets a nice, strong "throw it back!" chant going and then enjoy your moment in the spotlight by hurling it back before the next batter comes to the plate.

The wrong way? Holding onto the ball until the visiting team takes the field, and then trying to bean the unsuspecting left fielder with your throw. That's what one fan who attended last night's game has been charged with doing. From the Chicago Sun-Times:

[The fan] caught Dodgers home run and, instead of immediately throwing it back onto the field, attempted to throw it at [Manny] Ramirez when the Dodgers returned to the field. Security guards "grabbed him" and turned him over to Chicago Police, police said.

Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure the man in the picture was an accomplice. The fan was charged with reckless conduct, a misdemeanor, and is scheduled to appear in front of a judge later this month.

Okay, so this video is freaking looooong -- 9:45 to be exact. But anytime I see something presented by the Stephen A. Smith Heckling Society of Gentleman, my attention stands rapt for as long as need be. And with good reason.

As you will see over the course of the next few minutes, one unlucky New Yorker passed out in his seat at the Mets game on Saturday night. The rest of the freaking stadium basically joined in on cheering his neighbors as they stacked beer cups on top of his head.



I'd tell you that 4:30 there's a moment with a man and his son and I'd point out various stops in the video (7:20 or so with a reverse full cup stack is particularly amazing), but really you want to watch the whole thing. And now I know why I never want to move to New York. And yes, people do yell "Put that on YouTube!" and boo as the security guard takes him away.

First of all, hooray to phonetic title semi-puns. Secondly, this video has everything you would expect out of the scene at the CBP for a Phillies game. You have to fast forward a little ways to see the fat man dance (2:20 to be exact), but if you do that, you'll miss Philly fans booing (1:00 and nooooo, you don't say) and a quick camera glance at a ballgirl which gets awkward (1:50-ish).



What a perfectly generic baseball fan: fat, mustached and willing to skin up in about 3/4 of a second.

Fat man chest bump to Enrico for the vid.

Bleacher Bums is MLB FanHouse's look at those oh-so-fun fan adventures.

I don't know what's more amazing: a) that this fan was in the right spot at the right time to catch a Torii Hunter batting practice home run; b) that his non-glove hand was steady enough to catch the whole thing on film; c) that he maintained the presence of mind to call "head's up!" and save that impressed Angels player from getting conked on the head ... or d) that this is the same fan who made a nearly identical video catching an Andre Ethier double back in May?

If I was to paint a picture of a stereotypical, blue collar, Texas baseball fan, the guy you are about to see below would probably hit on like nine of 10 points. He has the cut off sleeves. He has the backwards hat. He has the smugness. The gut. The Oakley-esque sport shades. And he is accidentally falling all over an attractive young ballgirl.



His face, as Knuckle Curve points out, once he gets back in his seat, is pretty daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang funny.

Bleacher Bums is MLB FanHouse's look at those oh so fun fan adventures.

Joe Sports Fan has one of the most ... well, funny seems accurate, but I'm terrified enough that I don't want to lie and tell you I spent the entire time hysterically cackling. However, the following video, in which two fans, one dressed as Superman and another dressed like a Hooters employee (male), engage in a dance off.



The amazing thing is that this went down at a major league game, and Busch Stadium of all places. (Why I imagine St. Louis to be uber-conservative I have no idea.) Good times to be had by all, and if you wagered $100 on the Male Hooters Employee Dress-A-Like to win the dance off, well, you're buying the $8.50 bricks tonight, friend.

Bleacher Bums is MLB FanHouse's look at those oh-so-fun fan adventures.

Yes, it's only batting practice, but it's still pretty freaking cool that this guy had his camera running and the presence of mind to stab that ball as it came whizzing by. (If it was me, I probably would've ended up with a broken camera and a black eye.) You could bring a camera to the ballpark every day for a decade and not catch something this slick on film.

That said, the guy who filmed this is no stranger to viral baseball clips: it's pupkin12, the same YouTube user who caught Carlos Lee both serenading his hecklers and reminding them of the score.

Bleacher Bums is MLB FanHouse's look at those oh so fun fan adventures.

Now, if Red Sox and Yankees games featured more action on the field like what we see in the stands in this video, maybe FanHouse wouldn't have had to come up with some new rivalries to appreciate in baseball. Who knew there was such animosity between Yankees and Red Sox fans!?

Kyle Farnsworth would be so proud.

(Thanks to Busted Coverage)

Bleacher Bums is MLB FanHouse's look at those oh so fun fan adventures.

In due time, there's a very real possibility that fans will be able to purchase bits and pieces of Yankee Stadium, from stadium chairs to the scoreboard to actual bricks. In the meantime, though, trying to take home bits and pieces will not only result in getting arrested but also having your season tickets revoked.

That's a lesson two fans learned this week when they allegedly tried to steal decorative bunting, damaging both the bunting and the facade in the process:

Yankees Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost said there would be no leniency for fans trying to take a piece of history.

"This type of destructive behavior will not be tolerated from the first game of the season through the last," he said.

They got a stiff penalty, but considering more than four million fans are expected to attend games this year, the team is better off setting a strong example now or else face the possibility of the stadium slowly disappearing into thin air over 81 home games.

I'm not sure I should even write this story, because knowing how insane passionate Red Sox fans can be, this could give them a few ideas. Just imagine that in game 6 tonight, the Indians are winning by six in the 8th inning. The Red Sox are looking lifeless, and there doesn't appear to be much hope.

At home sits a disgruntled member of Red Sox Nation. He isn't ready to see his team go down. There has to be something he can do to save his heroes.

Let's just hope that this man doesn't know who Dante Suguitan is.

Federal prosecutors in Atlanta said Suguitan used his personal cellphone - registered in the name of "SF Giants Fan" - to call in several bomb threats from California to Turner Field in the summer of 2005.

He did so, Suguitan told authorities, because he wanted to "intimidate players and affect the outcome of the game series."

Now, Suguitan - who pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of making false bomb threats using a telephone, an instrument of interstate commerce - is looking at a possible 50 years in federal prison.

This is the first time I've ever heard of a fan doing something like this. I remember as a teenager a friend of mine-who shall remain nameless-called in a bomb threat to our school because he hadn't finished a paper yet. It worked, and he was able to avoid any prison time.

Of course, he was smart enough to use a payphone. Personally I think they should probably tack on five more years to Suguitan's sentence just for the sheer stupidity he exhibited by using his cellphone.