Early this morning, The St. Petersburg Times had a blurb in their sports section about an alleged altercation between a Rays fan and a Phillies player following the Phils 10-4 loss on Thursday night. Here’s what it said:
PHILLIE, FAN FIGHT: An incident took place between a fan and a Phillies player after Thursday’s game, the Rays confirmed. ”At this point it is a police matter and for that reason we won’t have any further comment,” the team said in a statement, but did not identify the player. St. Petersburg Police officials could not be reached late Friday night, but a dispatcher confirmed that a report for a battery call was taken at the stadium at about 11 p.m. Thursday. The Phillies could not be reached for comment.
So, like an asshole, I spent majority of the morning placing calls to the St. Pete Times and the St. Pete police department posing as an actual reporter trying to put a name to this unidentified Phillies player only to have Matt P from The 700 Level hit me on the GChat telling me it was J.C. Romero. How did he know this? Because commenter willH. left this little nugget on their site yesterday:
poppa will.H said a rays fan shoved something he wanted autographed into JC romeros face and they got into a lengthy pushing/shouting match infront of the phils dugout after the game last night
But because Matt P isn’t one of those bloggers that just randomly posts unsubstantiated reports as fact and couldn’t confirm with “poppa will.H” or any of the Phillies scribes, he decided to wait until he got some sort of proof. Now, the entire world is reporting that it was, in fact, J.C. Romero who grabbed some shit-talking Rays fan by the throat and threatened to choke a bitch.
Via the newest St. Petersburg Times report:
Robert Eaton [Ed. Note: I hate Eatons], a 25-year-old father of two, said Phillies pitcher J.C. Romero grabbed him by the neck and pushed him after he made a comment about steroids.
[...]Eaton said he was attempting to get autographs from Phillies players when the incident happened. After players brushed him off, Eaton said he called out to Romero, something to the effect of, “How about you get me some juice?”
Romero snapped, Eaton said, telling him to “shut the f—- up” and that he didn’t know what he was talking about. Eaton said he replied that Romero was the one who’d been suspended recently.
“He reared back and kinda grazed my chin and grabbed me by the neck and threw me back,” Eaton said. “I was in shock.”
Eaton’s lawyer, James Magazine, said he was retained late Friday afternoon and hasn’t had time to investigate the case.
What in the name of Mario Lavandeira is going on in this world? Since when are people surprised when they talk shit to somebody and get punched and/or choked out?
Fuck this guy. +1 J.C. Romero.
BONUS! Here’s some fans in Mets land giving it to Romero a few weeks ago. Instead of choking them (because he obviously couldn’t reach them), he mocks them and tells ‘em to “go smoke more weed.” haha
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June 27th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
According to phillies.com, the St. Pete Times is reporting it was JC.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I should learn how to speak/type clearly. What I meant by that was that it’s now on phillies.com.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Fuck you, Eaton!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Time to send Wheels and TMac some T-shirts — or at least set them straight on the Birdland merch’: the cameras caught a couple of Phils’ fan in Birdland attire (”Use Stairs” and “RAAAUUUULLLL!”) in top ninth (or thereabouts), to TMac’s and Wheels’ amusement.
“Look at that shirt, ‘RAAAUUUULLLL’! I didn’t even know they made a shirt that said that.”
“Do you think he made it himself?”
“Oh, I think he did.”
NO, SIR!
June 27th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
meech, what alias did you use when you called down to Tampa? Howard Eskin?
June 27th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I’m sure that guy wanted to hit back, but he knew what we all know. Eaton cannot hit his spots.
June 27th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
That Mets fan giggles like a fag
June 28th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I dont think it was because of a steroid comment.. i think he just found out his last name was eaton…
shame to hear what happend. im surprised, but at the same time im not.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:56 am
ok – so i heard this story and felt I should tell one about what a good guy jc is/how likely it is that this guy is a jerk
a few weeks ago when the phillies were in san diego i took some friends including their four y/o daughter. during the game – which was her first baseball game ever – she decided she liked the phillies b/c of their red caps and wanted to get closer to them. i walked her near the bullpen and b/c it is san diego and on one was there we could get near the players. she waved at jc while he was sitting down/getting up to enter his first game of the year. jc waves back and in between one of his warm up pitches tosses her a ball
now im sure cynics would argue that all this story proves is that any chick cute enough will get attention from ballplayers. or that jc didn’t have his head in the game. but i was struck by this guy doing something extra nice when at his job, taking time for someone doing something kind he didn’t have to do.
and seeing that side of jc makes me think more that this guy eaton is likely some sort of blowhard who was being obnoxious and looking for a fight. in other words this story – if it involved a philly fan – would likely prompt a one hour outside the lines special with bob ley talking in some serious voice followed by the trite santa clauis story
June 28th, 2009 at 1:20 am
JC was wrong. no matter what the fan said. JC is the dick here.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
What a whiney little girl Eaton is — I wish Romero had beaten the crap out of him. I contacted the law firm representing Eaton and told them exactly what I thought of the little crybaby:
http://www.pascolawgroup.com/
July 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
i dont know about the fan, but i know that JC is a real jerk with roid rage to boot. the guy who told the story about him throwing hte ball was spot on. jc looks for girls during the games and throws a ball their way and then sends his friends to ask them out for him after the game. ive witnessed it first hand
July 9th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
@heather
im sorry this was your first experience with the majority of all professional athletes.
/road beef’d