Here is an article from ESPN's Ray Ratto.
Every once in a while you just have one of those Jerry Springer moments, when someone you don't know has called you a fat pig, a fat whore, a fat whatever, and you must respond by throwing upholstery.
Frank Francisco learned he can't throw a chair like he can a fastball.
Hey, it's 21st Century America. We televise people bathing in weevils. We have people fired by rich celebrities wearing a haircut made entirely of sleeping badgers. We wife-swap on TV. What's a chair-toss here and there?
Which brings us to Frank Francisco, the heretofore utterly anonymous Texas Rangers reliever who had had his fill of the heckler(s) in the Oakland Coliseum crowd and did what any fifth-grade educated, gap-toothed trailer-park whack-job on the Springer show would do -- he flung a chair.
And badly, as it turned out. He hit two people, one a woman who got her nose broken for her $12 admission.
Somehow, I sense she will come away from her ballpark experience with more than an autographed ball. She could end up owning the autographers themselves if her lawyer is particularly clever and rapacious.
Oh, we could wait for Francisco's side of the story, once the Oakland cops get done adding to their lunatic miscreant file, but you know what?He doesn't have one.
The man threw a chair at other people. He is not an employee of Vince McMahon's. This isn't cultural, this isn't hormonal, this isn't anything but platinum-alloyed stupidity. He deserves what he gets, starting with the charge of aggravated battery, and more. Period.
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