I was very keen on last night's match-up between the Dodgers and Giants—the first such match-up since the last series ended. The last series started with the bludgeoning of a Giants fan by some dumb ass Dodgers fans in Los Angeles. The bludgeonee, Bryan Stow, is still in a coma. I was concerned that a retaliation of some kind might be in order seeing how last night's game was in San Francisco. I had the game on but was unable to pay more attention to it than a glance here and there so it wasn't until this morning that I learned of some good news.
Both teams held a pre-game ceremony in which there was a moment of silence and after which Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt (a former Rockie) took the microphone and talked for a spell about what a great rivalry the Giants' and Dodgers' has been and how it's OK to want your team to beat the other while the game is on, but once over, it's back to peace, love and understanding. I'm paraphrasing, of course, but what I'm not paraphrasing is what happened between fans at AT&T park. To my knowledge there was no retaliatory bullcrap. It was, as I paraphrased, peace, love and understanding.
UPDATE: Just when I thought this thing was mellowing out and cooling down—aside from Bryan Stow's condition, obviously, who's still in a medically-induced coma, and had part of his skull removed to allow for the swelling of his brain—I read what this tool from Pittsburgh has to say. John Steigerwald writes for the Observer Reporter, a paper serving Washington and Greene counties near Pittsburgh. He is obviously fishing for links and clicks because suggesting that it's Bryan's own fault for what happened to him simply because Mr. Snow was wearing a Giants jersey in "enemy" territory is one of the most stupid things I've heard ever. I'm not sure who I'm more appalled by: the thugs who beat up Bryan Stow, or John Steigerwald.
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