Throwing beer on a player makes you a douchebag!

For the second time this year, I’m forced to publicly say “I’m embarrassed to be a Cub fan”. Earlier this year I said that after watching Cub fans cheer when Jose Oquendo was tagged with a line drive during a Cubs/Cards game.

Last night I watched an idiot fan in the bleachers throw his beer on Shane Victorino during a game that was already 12-1 and out of hand at that point. That was bad enough, but the fact that the dude got away with it is even worse.

Above you’ll see a picture of the aftermath of the beer tossing event. I wish I had a link to a video of it but I don’t….but if you watch the video or you watched the game live last night, you could clearly see the douchebag on the left was the guy who flipped his cup onto the field. Sadly for the guy on the right in the jersey, he successfully made a complete ass out of himself and drew too much attention and the security whisked him away to “Cubbie Jail”.

As of now, the actual perpetrator hasn’t been found but the matter has been turned over to the Chicago police. The Cubs also made a formal apology to Victorino on the event and it sounds like Victorino is being a good guy about it and not placing blame on the Cubs organization as a whole.

Personally for me, I’m embarrassed by this. I’m embarrassed to get myself lumped into a group with ass-hats like this kid and people assume I’m a drunken idiot who’s only there to drink because I’m a Cubs fan. If you’re someone like this…someone who is more interested in getting tanked and sitting in the sun than watching a Major League game, do us all a favor and sit on your porch and do that while listening to the game on the radio or watching on TV. I know, when a fan pays his money for a ticket, he is entitled to make his experience anything he wants, but not when it interferes with the game or someone else’s viewing of the game.

Ultimately, nothing is going to change because of this. Stupid kids are going to continue to go to games, get drunk on Old Style, and give the rest of us a bad name. But what I want to happen is for this kid to get busted! I know it’s a snowball’s chance, but if you know this kid or know his name, report it to the Cubs and let’s at least have one less bozo in the bleachers!

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