Mets Fans Would Make Good Soccer Fans

by DCScrap, Our Book of Scrap

If you told me that a soccer fan killed someone because his team lost a game I would shrug and say, "Yeah, so what? It's soccer. That's like an every day occurrence." However, if you said it happened in America and the sport was baseball I would say, "Must be someone in New York." And I'd be right.

A New York man has been charged with beating his mother to death with a barbell after losing his temper while watching a baseball game on television.

Michael Anthony, 25, was watching the New York Mets lose a game on Saturday from his home in the borough of Queens when he began furiously banging on the walls, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement on Monday.

Joe Morgan will blame this all on Billy Beane somehow. "Too many stats! They're ruining baseball ... and making people murder each other!"

His father Fred Fischman shouted at him to stop, but Anthony punched him in the face and threw him to the ground, according to the criminal charges.

I bet it looked something like this:

When Anthony's mother, Maria Fischman, 61, tried to intervene, prosecutors said he stabbed her once in the head with a knife before chasing her into a bedroom where he struck her several times with the nine-kilogram barbell.

THIS JUST IN ... EPIC CARNIVAL HAS OBTAINED EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE OF THE MAN ACCUSED OF THIS HEINOUS CRIME, SHOT JUST DAYS BEFORE THE ATTACK.

(Source: Reuters)