Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte cries on field in heartbreaking scene after fan’s disturbing comments
By Mitch Fink
Published June 25, 2025, 8:36 a.m. ET
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“I hope MLB can do something with that guy. I don’t know who it was, but they’ve got to do something. We can’t continue to do that [expletive] here in MLB … he should be banned, for sure. Everybody knows Ketel lost his mom. She was the world to him.”
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I’d hope that MLB would ban this bozo fan for a decade. Hey, “kill the ump” isn’t even acceptable these days. I think that the “bread and circuses” crowd has lost all public decency. Cheer, boo, whatever, but personal slurs are, or should be, severely punished.
Same with verbal and physical assaults at ANY sporting event should be prosecuted to the full extent of the local law. It’s a real “HATE” crime. (Even though as a little L libertarian, I don’t believe in “hate enhanced penalties”.)
I can’t imagine how I’d react if I was really focused on my job and performing it to the best of my ability and someone came up behind me and yelled slurs about my sainted past wife. I’d probably try and deck the guy.
Argh!
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UPDATE: 2025-Jun-30
https://1057thehawk.com/ixp/385/p/branchburg-youth-baseball-umpire-assault/
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In March 2023, he was sentenced to five years’ probation. He also had to complete five months of anger management counseling, NJ.com reported.
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FJR: No jail time? To light IMHO.
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