Posted on 07/31/2007 8:04:36 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Doesn't this seem more like something a Yankee fan would do? Or a Red Sox fan? Mets fans always appeared more suicidal than homicidal. In any event, it's awfully tragic.
Michael Anthony—no relation to the former bassist of Van Halen—stabbed his mother in the head and beat her to death with a twenty-pound barbell on Saturday night after she tried to break up a fight between him and his father during a Mets game, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Monday.
Anthony, 25, of Fresh Meadows, started pounding on the walls while watching the Mets play the Nationals, Brown said. When his father, Fred Fischman, told him to stop, Anthony punched him in the face and threw him on the ground, Brown said. When his 61-year-old mother, Maria, intervened, Anthony attacked him, authorities said.
From the DA's press release:
The District Attorney said that, according to the criminal charges, the defendant was watching a New York Mets game in his family’s apartment on the night of July 28, 2007, when he began banging on the walls. At that point, his father, Fred Fischman, came into the room and yelled at him to stop. It is alleged that a physical fight then took place between the two men, during which Fischman was punched about the face and thrown to the ground. As the defendant’s mother, 61year-old Maria Fischman, attempted to intercede, the defendant allegedly pushed her and stabbed her once in the head with a knife. Mrs. Fischman then ran into the bedroom, where the defendant allegedly struck her several times in the head with a twenty-pound barbell.
Anthony faces up to 25 years to life on second-degree murder, third-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon charges. The Mets lost to the Nationals 6-5.
I’ve never been that way when watching the Mets. I’m loud and throw things when I get killed playing video games. That’s absolutely horrific
Well I am sure glad they clarified that! I was on pins-and-needles for a second there!
Winning at baseball is not a matter of life or death......oh wait, yes it is.........
Noo yawkiz, gotta love em.
American journalism at its finest!
Still posting...?
Look on the bright side. That’s probably two less Democrat voters, although the dead mom will probably still be voting for years to come.
I’ve noticed the same thing about Mets and Phils fans ... crazy people. Philly sports fans are generally insane - i.e. throwing batteries, booing Michael Irvin as he’s carted off the field with a career-ending injury. Cubs and Red Sox fans always seemed to whiny to be violent. Yankees fans might hire a hit man ... but they’re too snobbish to kill by themselves.
Go stros! (Though not so much this year ... we stink).
H
“Yankee’s fans aren’t like that when they come to town”
Obviously you’ve never been to Yankee Stadium during the subway series.
The most tragic sentence of the article, of course...
All kidding aside, what kind of fools get violent over sports games? I mean, I get disappointed when my teams loose, but I can't imagine becoming physically violent.
He would kill his whole family if he was a Yankee fan these days.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Oh, ye of little faith!
I know some of these sports fan losers. Their “team” loses and they are despondent for days. Do these even realize that the players themselves are multimillionaires who couldn’t care less what “team” they play for so long as the huge checks keep coming in, and once they leave the stadium in their limos, they quickly forget all about it?
As a life-long Red Sox fan I've shed many a tear in my day (67-75-78-86) but I've never killed.
LOLOL!! Not too far from the truth (and I’m a huge Mets fan)
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