Sports Brawls

[jamesglewisf]

Wow! The NBA yesterday and college football today!

Did anyone else see those brawls?

I wonder how long they will suspend the NBA players. I hope they prosecute both the fans and the players.

[Justawoman]

It was frightening to watch. I was talking and they whole fray caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. I was speechless. What has happened to sports now a days? It is almost to scary to go see any sporting event. You don't know what might set the person next to you off.

[Marcos]

I think that sports have gotten way out of hand in the past few years. Sports figures are given way too much money and some of them don't know how to react to that along with the fame. That brawl was like one gang (the players) fighting another gang (the fans). Both sides were wrong and they should be prosecuted for assault, not just suspended for a few games.

[Justawoman]

I have to agree about the salaries for pro athletes. Last night watching the Giants the comment was made about Eli and Payton Mannings salaries and how proud their dad must be. 50 mil and 100 mil respectively. That just seems like a whole bunch of money to me. I think it is way out of hand there.

[Marcos]

I agree. I think that its just incredible how much they get paid. I mean seriously, is what they do really worth that much? I understand that I can't do what they do. But they are playing football. Thats it. They get paid to play. I wish I could get paid to play. But I, along with all of you, barely get paid to work. None and I mean none of those athletes are worth so much money. Especailly when they fight like some common street thugs.

[Alec]

It's capitalism. They're worth whatever someone is willing to pay them. If the corporation that pays them can make money doing it, then that's why they get paid that much. It is supply and demand. If everybody could play as well as they do, then the supply would go up, and they wouldn't get paid as much.

[Alec]

BTW, I agree about the assault charges, if they are applicable. I don't know what the law is if someone throws something at you.

FYI - Artest is gone for the rest of the season, Jackson was suspended for 30 games, and O'Neal was suspended 25 games, and Wallace was suspended for six.

[Grimey]

This ought to make everyone happy:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6429260/

The New York Yankees will offer free-agent pitcher Pedro Martinez a four-year deal worth $50 million, but a major-league source says the star wants $60 million, the Bergen County Record reported Tuesday.

The newspaper also said the Boston Red Sox raised their offer to their former star to $38 million.

[CuriousG]

I didn't see the college football fight, but I saw the whole mess with Artest. I'm glad they suspended him for the year, but maybe he should have gotten more. You can't go after a fan, I don't care what they did. So, they hit you with a water bottle... Guess what you make millions of dollars a year to play basketball. The best revenge he could have is to tip his hat and say "You can go tell your friends you hit me with a water bottle at the game, I'll just go home and buy a Ferrari." That was ridiculous. Plus it showed a lack of security capability.

[Grimey]

For the security level thing, I don't know. How many times has that ever happened? You can't line the court with cops. No one would be able to see the game. There is no way to prevent every bad thing from happening.

[jamesglewisf]

It looks like the group is heading to court. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/08/entertainment/main659720.shtml

(CBS/AP) Members of the Indiana Pacers who clashed with Detroit Pistons fans in one of the most violent melees in NBA history might be reunited — in a courtroom.

Nine people charged in the brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills were scheduled for a pretrial conference Tuesday afternoon in 52nd District Court in Rochester Hills, a Detroit suburb. A tenth had been scheduled to appear earlier in the day, but his appearance was postponed.

It was not immediately clear whether District Judge Lisa Asadoorian planned to gather the nine defendants in the same room at the same time. It also was not known whether each planned to attend the hearing.

A warrant was expected to be issued for any defendant who failed to appear. A pretrial conference is held to discuss matters such as evidence and witnesses, and to establish a timetable.