an idiot goes over the railing during the home run derby

So last night during the homer run derby Prince Fielder of the Milwaukee Brewers hit a ball almost into the outfield seats in the second round of the competition and Keith Carmickle went after the ball and end up almost falling to his death except that his brother and friends held onto him and pulled him back over the railing. The guy a complete idiot because he was standing a narrow table in front of the front row seats that let me just guess were there so the fans can put their food on it which is nice especially as I go to the Rogers centre and U can either put it on the floor or put on the little slab of cement if your in the front row that is until the usher comes down and asks U to move it.

The thing about this is that it comes four days after a Texas firefighter Shannon Stone fell over a rail at the Rangers game on Thursday night when he had asked Josh Hamilton for a foul ball for his son so the next opportunity he had Hamilton throw the ball towards Stone and in his attempt to catch it got to close to the railing and went over and fell 20 feet to his death.

So now Major League Baseball will be putting most likely some safety nets up to protect the fans but it will make it a lot harder to get a ball at a game which is pretty hard to do already and in Arizona I am pretty sure that those nice tables will be gone almost immediately and sadly it is because of a goof who had too much drink and had no sense for his own safety and his family and friends could not get him to stop most likely.

In the case of Shannon Stone it was just the wrong place at the wrong time his heart was in the right place and Josh Hamilton's heart as well was in the right place and it was extremely sad and should not have happened. This is just like when the little girl was killed in Columbus at a Blue Jackets game and made it necessary for the NHL to put up fish netting to catch a lot of the pucks that would be heading into the stands as souvenirs the baseball teams will do the same and really that all they can do because they do have announcements before the game to keep an eye on the game as the balls come fast into the stands.

Its a sad day in baseball

Tom Mehegan