Philadelphia sports fans, though not specifically these guys, have a notoriously severe rep. Everybody loves to bristles on Philadelphia sports fans, and St. Petersburg Times. Romano's column today says that defiant Phillies' fans harassed and maltreated members of the Rays contingent in the stands during Tampa Bay's impoverishment in Game 3 at Citizens Bank Park.
Romano contends that ballpark impudence didn't do enough to send to the gas chamber the miscreants: [Phillies superior frailty president Michael Stiles said,] "There are some things you can't control. If an unscathed allot of fans dart chanting the a-hole word, there's not much you can do. We consider we have responded to the complaints in the suitable way." Oh, so violators are ejected or arrested.
And how many ejections were there in Game 3? Stiles said he did not have meticulous figures but had been told by MLB officials that there were 12 ejections/arrests Saturday night. Twelve? TWELVE! In a horde of 45,900? In a village known for having the country's most cruel fans? In a plucky that did not begin until after 10 p.m., giving fans more poison time? Chuck E. Cheese's has more ejections on a Saturday.
This is where I have a intractable with the Phillies and the city. I infer from that 200 or so knuckleheads no more portray this great burgh than the worst 200 knuckleheads define Tampa Bay. Yet the team, the police, the mayor's establishment and the citizens appropriate their repute to be lowered down to the position of knuckle-dragging Neanderthals because they condone this behavior year after year after year. Condone may not even be the righteous word. They whoop it up in it.
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