Yankees Suck. Sox Are Roadkill
NOTE: Please read the updates below and submitted comments to put this post in it’s proper context. Much information came out after this story originally broke. For coverage of the story and a link to the petition, go to Masslive.
Dude. It’s Sox Yankees. Maybe you could take it just a little less seriously?
Woman Smears Red Sox Fan All Over A Parking Lot Because The Yankees Do, In Fact, Suck.
An argument over the Red Sox and Yankees turned deadly led a woman to run down a pedestrian with her car, prosecutors said, and now, she has been charged with murder.
Ivonne Hernandez, 43, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Matthew Beaudoin, 29.
Prosecutors said words were exchanged in a parking lot behind Nashua City Hall on Friday between Hernandez and a group of people that included Beaudoin. Prosecutors said a comment was made about a Yankees sticker on Hernandez’s car, and she then drove across a dirt parking lot and directly at the group, striking Beaudoin.
They should sue the auto manufacturer of the car she was driving. Clearly if psychopathic Yankee fans didn’t have access to automobiles, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen. Let’s see civilization run amok when everyone’s riding Segway scooters!
I have a hard time believing that’s what actually happened. You’re in Nashua. You have a Yankees sticker on your car. What do you expect? Hugs?
UPDATE: No wonder I had a hard time believing that’s what actually happened. Because that isn’t what actually happened.
UPDATE 2: Individuals commenting take issue with my headline and tone of this post. Let me make it clear that when the post was written, this story - as produced by any news outlet - was one about a Sox/Yankees rivalry that ended with a disgruntled, teased Yankees fan running over a Sox fan. That is a ridiculous situation regardless of it’s gravity. Running someone over because of baseball. THAT is the ridiculous story I posted about.
Now we find that the Sox fan in question was breaking up a fight between two women, and that one woman was so drunk and stupid that she got in her car and tried to drive through a crowd - killing the man. Is this a sad situation? Yes, of course. Was he a genuinely good individual? Don’t know - I never knew him. Was he doing a good thing? Breaking up a fight is certainly a good deed and if he was truly trying to defuse the situation, then yes, it was. I wasn’t there, and haven’t seen the police report.
As it stands, I’m not deleting this post because it documents everything - my initial reaction reading a ridiculous news story about a Sox/Yankees rivalry gone wrong, and the comments following that story taking issue with my headline and perceived flippant attitude toward the story. Some individuals may realize that I wrote on what came out at the time. Some won’t. Either way, it seems as if enough facts are out to declare this story resolved. I’m closing comments because everything that’s needed to be said has, and at this point it would end up at constant re-hashing of the same arguments which is just as stupid as the original story sounded.
Liberty on May 5th 2008 in General Crap
7 Responses to “Yankees Suck. Sox Are Roadkill”
Katie responded on 07 May 2008 at 6:44 am #
You are an idiot.
Liberty responded on 07 May 2008 at 6:56 am #
Insightful commentary, Katie. Made my day!
sitboaf responded on 07 May 2008 at 1:20 pm #
Actually, the latest reports indicate that the Ms. Hernandez thought the victim and some others nearby were laughing at her - which was not the case. They were laughing at a third party. Ms. Hernandez then assaulted one woman (who was defended by the victim), and then decided to return to her car and escalate the violence. The Yankees taunt may have been inconsequential by that point.
Your headline insults the memory of a genuinely good human being.
Liberty responded on 07 May 2008 at 1:54 pm #
My headline was written when the only information out was about a Sox fan teasing a Yankees fan and getting run over. That’s why I made the post (and suspected we didn’t have the whole story - and I’m still not sure the whole story is out), that’s why I wrote the headline as is, and I’m not changing it because of what I know now just like I couldn’t see into the future when I wrote it.
At that time this story was just as ridiculous as it sounded - a Sox/Yankees fight ends up with somebody running over someone else with their car. I wrote the headline without the benefit of being able to see in the future, that happens when news stories appear, you might do well to understand that.
Either way, I approved your comment, and thanks for stopping by.
sitboaf responded on 07 May 2008 at 2:56 pm #
In a way, the story IS ridiculous. I certainly agree with you there.
And when the story first came out, as you said, it was played up as part of the long-standing Yankees/Red Sox rivalry, which is partly the fault of the media. I’m not sure where you’re from, because I don’t read your blog, but in New England, it’s a big thing.
And I also understand the timetable of when you wrote your entry, so I’m not faulting you for that. My only qualm is with your equivocation of roadkill and a human life. THAT bothers me. I’m moved to write to you because I knew Matt.
But that’s what makes our country great, right? You expressed your opinions and thoughts, and had the courage to include rebuttals from others, too.
Now, your understandably baseball-centric headline has been tempered by my comment reflecting recently revealed information, so I’m okay with that.
I don’t ask you to approve and post this comment. I was just expressing gratitude for A. being allowed to post my first comment, and B. your willingness to address my issues.
BSmiff responded on 08 May 2008 at 12:24 am #
Regardless of what you knew and what you didn’t know when you wrote this story, you are reporting on the end of a human life…And in this case a genuinely good person who was victimized for what is essentially no reason at all, and was killed shielding a friend from a similar fate. I would expect that you would use a little more compassion in your reporting!
R.I.P Matty 5s.3s
Liberty responded on 08 May 2008 at 6:26 am #
Regardless? Tell me that in your entire life you’ve never looked at a somber situation as a disconnected and uninvolved individual. Don’t go preaching to me about how you’re the supreme sympathetic being who has shown nothing but the most serious concern for *any* story involving death throughout your entire life.
That is bullshit.
The news outlets played this up as a Sox/Yankees rivalry that ended with someone taking the teasing of their team so far as to run someone over. That’s the ridiculous story I wrote a post about a few days ago. I updated that post with additional information, and now all of these comments are describing the event in more detail.
If what you are claiming is what in fact happened, then yes, it’s certainly a more sad story, and certainly different than news outlets at large initially portrayed it. I won’t erase my post because of it, these comments serve to clarify it to it’s completion, and that’s where it’ll stop. This story is over.