Thu Jul 29 05:23am PDT
WARNING: Video contains profanity. Thanks to several citizen-journalists at Progressive Field, we are all witnesses to a smart-alecky young man wearing a LeBron James' No. 6 Miami Heat jersey just begging for trouble during the New York Yankees-Cleveland Indians game.
For a few minutes during the sixth inning Wednesday night, A-Rod's chase of 600 home runs (along with the home team's wonderful season) took a back seat to a n'er-do-well siphoning some attention — which this blog is happy to give him!
As perhaps you recall, LeBron is no longer so well-liked in Ohio, now that he's no longer a member of the Cavaliers after signing a free-agent contract to be with Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and Pat Riley down in sunny F-L-A.
Not so sunny, the mood in the bleachers as the troublemaker taunts and is taunted back by angry, but also bemused, fans. Before it gets too ugly, security comes to take the guy — watching the game with a female companion, who's wearing a Grady Sizemore(notes) girlie jersey — out of harm's way. She's obviously not happy with her fella, either.
Hey, would a Minuteman wear a Benedict Arnold wig to the Boston Tea Party?
There's a photo and more video below, but a head's up: All of the video contains profanity.

Also, young man: Your pants are ripped and your cap is askew. Signed, old man.
• Part two from the same videographer, "IwasAwitness72810."
• Another angle shot annoyingly sideways for some reason.
• A semi-coherent and kind of scary take from under the grandstand. It's Blair Witchy.
• Along shot of security apparently leading the couple out of the stadium, fans taunting "LeBron" all the way.
Ah, you can't beat fun at the old ballpark.
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And the girl...seriously...what are you doing with a tool like that?...Wake up honey...He's no good *snaps fingers*
Amazing how the bruiser in the Yankees jersey was unaccosted in this video.
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Bwahhhhhhhhh.
How sad is this getting?
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Quinn wouldn't matter it's common sense after something like that happened to now wear the jersey, and if you do expect some hazing from fans.
PS the Reds are better than the Cardinals
please shut up unless you have anything relevant to say.
Pretty fly for a white guy was probably just moved somewhere.
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Mouth breathing, knuckle draggers Philly fans should be proud of this article.
To put it simply I am going to quote a scene from a Bronx Tale but make a couple of changes to the lines for the sake of this sad little world we live in.
You must be pretty upset after the Cavaliers lost LeBron James
Miami Heat, I hate them.
They made Cleveland cry. The papers said that Dan Gilbert cried.
LeBron James? That's what you're upset about?
James makes $110,000,000. How much does your father make?
I don't know he's unemployed and from Cleveland.
If your dad needs money, go ask LeBron James. See what happens.
LeBron Kames don't care about you. Why care about him?
Nobody cares, except Cleveland.
Can I ask you something?
Sure.
Did they really throw that man out of the game for wearing a jersey?
When you get older, you'll understand.
From that day on, I never felt the same about professional sports.
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Spoken like a true Clevelander.
You really need a job, a life, or a hobby.
P.S.
Cleveland Sucks.
Ohio Sucks.
So there.
Nan a nan a nan a
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The Browns are going to be something with Brady, the hometown kid Quinn.
Yea, okay, he didn't matter.
Not like LeBron.
I mean he did bring, ur, uh, oh, ah, how many championships to Cleveland?
1? 2? 10?
Oh ZERO!!!!!!
Get over it you babies.
Chicago had the greatest player of all time in the NBA and when he left, they moved on.
Now do the same.
Oh I know you cannot do that because much like your life, the rest of your state's teams fail to deliver the glory you never lived up to and can only find through your sports teams.
Ugh, what a bunch of losers.
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Philly knows how to handle this type of crap haha.
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he entered the game at the beginning and everything was fine at first. insults were thrown, he soaked it in. no big deal.
then he starts walking around the entire stadium with his girl under his arm as if to show himself off, trying to grab more attention. people should have ignored him, but instead insulted him more which only fueled the fire. at this point im still thinking, 'whatever, the dude obviously has some attention issues, but who cares. he hasnt done anything wrong.' i still dont feel bad that people are harassing him, but i guess he didn't either.
after about an inning or two he and his girlfriend finally make it back to their seats in left field. people there (i was standing on the home run porch) immediately notice, and continue the chants. on his way up, some dude who is walking down bumps him a bit and his beer spills a little. this is when things turned ugly.
the guy in the james jersey immediately turns around and throws his beer at the guy, now at the bottom of the steps, who bumped him. just about everybody stands up in that area at this point. at least 3 people got into serious verbal arguments with the guy and are confronting him. things are much more elevated at this point, and i think to myself, the cops better get up there cause things could get really bad really quickly.
they send a ticket guy up there to check their tickets, looking for any reason to get them out of their. apparently that was their legit seats, cause he left. in the video you can see a big guy in a green shirt about 10 rows down from them. hey sends some serious threats, including telling the jersey guy to come down to him and fight. jersey boy and his girl stay where they are.
finally, after 5 more minutes of this, one cop comes up to escort them out. they resist at first, and then another cop comes and they slowly start walking down the steps.
they take their time, all the while hes popping his jersey and his girlfriend gives the crowd the middle finger multiple times. about half way down some guy says something and the girl reacts. she throws a slap/punch at the guy that hits his chest, he throws her off knowing that he cant retaliate. she comes at him three or more times each time he throws her off. the cops watch for about 20 seconds, as does jersey boy, until finally they restrain her and escort them out quickly now.
at this point, everyone in the area runs over to watch these two get escorted out. once outside, i heard some guy took his shirt off and ran at the two, only to be intercepted by the cops.
suffice to say, these two deserved every bit of harassment they got. they wanted it, and they enticed it on. the girl should have sat in jail for the night, as if the roles were reversed and that guy thrown the punch at her, he certainly would have.
all the articles about this incidence are putting more of the blame on the crowd at not these two. i was there. they wanted attention, and they wanted to fight with people.
while i was watching this, i was secretly hoping people would oblige their second desire...
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