The 1 percent of rude baseball fans is ruining the game for the other 99 percent of respectful ones and things are going to have to change.
It is usually is verbal abuse, but has moved toward physical assault.
Fans heckling players are part of the game, but the line has been crossed a few times and the players are not protected. MLB hands down suspensions for inappropriate behavior by players, but fans are never arrested for their actions.
Milton Bradley of the Los Angeles Dodgers was suspended for the remainder of the year and enrolled in anger management classes because of his on-field actions with a fan last week.
Bradley, who plays right field, was assaulted when the heckling fan threw a plastic beer bottle at the right fielder. Bradley then grabbed the bottle and emptied it, went over to the fan yelling and threw the bottle in the stands where no one was sitting.
Did Bradley do something wrong? Yes. He let his temper get out of hand, but it was only in response to criminal violence.
Signs around each major league stadium state that “the throwing of object onto the field of play is a criminal offense.” So, why do the fans continue to get away with these actions?
David Wells of the San Diego Padres, was once suspended for getting into a confrontation with a fan after they continually heckled him during the game about his mother that had just passed away.
Just because he is a baseball player does not mean he should have to take that kind of verbal abuse.
No other public figures such as musicians, politicians, or movie stars would ever have to endure abuse of this kind.
At a concert, the fan that threw something on stage would be arrested and removed.
Fans that act in this way should be arrested, removed from the game, and never allowed to set foot back into the stadium. Then the real fans can takes their families and enjoy the national pastime without the “one guy that ruins it.”

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