Video: Utley’s Other Bomb At The Derby
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Tue, July 15, 2008 09:16 AM | Comments: 175
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Chase Utley hit five home runs and didn’t make it out of the Home Run Derby’s first round last night. No big deal, really. I was content watching Josh Hamilton treat Yankee Stadium like a Guns N Roses pinball machine.
The real story with Utley this morning isn’t really a story at all, just a hilarious slip in a moment of sarcasm.
Dig (hat tip to The 700 Level):
He says, “Boo? F**k you” sarcastically about the New York crowd to Dan Uggla.
I love it. Yeah, maybe he should’ve realized he was on microphone, but when do you get to hear Chase ribbing around like a regular guy? I love this little glimmer of character.
Posts: 0 Rick
Chase wasn’t booing anyone. He was rhetorically asking “Boo?”. He was surprised he was being booed for his VOLUNTARY participation in the HR Derby.
Then he said jokingly “F— you!” to Uggla. I’d probably be slightly annoyed that people would boo me too, if all I was trying to do is voluntarily entertain them.
To be quite honest, even if one of the Muts was in the HR Derby at CBP I’m not sure if they would be booed. Our fans surprise me at times with what they will and won’t boo.
Most of the time, our boos are sarcastic and fun loving anyway. For instance, when fans try to catch pop-ups in the stands and miss them. The fans aren’t sincerely booing the person, but merely having fun with them.
Posted: 02:29 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Yankee Fan
Thats a good idea J-MAN you should chant that so everyone on national tv can see how classy the fans are. And prove everthing that has been said about them.
Posted: 02:35 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
Yankee Fan is just upset because his team is the biggest Soap Opera in the history of sports… A-rod dating life.. Jeter’s cologne.. Giambi’s moustache and thong.. and nobody can have facial hair, and god knows whatever else..
What part of New York do you live in Yankee Fan??
Posted: 02:38 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Yankee Fan
Were not upset it happens when your team is in the best city in the world. And it does not matter the yankees have more class then any other team around. And when you have the best players in baseball on your team you expect things like that to happen. Its the YANKEES!
Posted: 02:44 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 9 in a row
Hey Fred and Phil- do you too jack each other off while watching Chase Utley highlights? Are you upset about living in a second class city? Don’t get shot tonight.
Posted: 02:46 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Yankee Fan
When you think baseball you think A-ROD, JETER, RIVERA, MANTLE, RUTH and the list goes on. When you think of Phillies you think of Schmidt,?,?,?,?. Some of the best players from the phillies they ever had? Abreu (Yankee) Wagner (met) what a great GM!
Posted: 02:48 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 dan
Funny, you didn’t answer Don’s question. Probably because you’re from Connecticut. You know what else you expect when you have the best players in baseball? Oh yeah, you expect to be ahead of the FUCKING RAYS.
Posted: 02:49 PM on July 15, 2008
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BROOKLYN
Posted: 02:50 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Staci
I love THAT ONLY PHILLIES FANS THINK IT WAS SARCASM!! I clearly, find it to be the same level of class that we were treated to when visiting lovely Philadelphia to watch our team, the METS play….I never realized that generations of fans encourage their grand CHILDREN to kick, stand in front of, and CURSE mets fans…oh, or chant CRYBABY when our pitcher, John Maine was hurt. I love Citizens Bank Park…and I LOVE coming to games with lots of intensity, but PHILLIES fans (not all I’m sure) really really should be ashamed of themselves…and then celebrating Utley for the F-bomb…typical.
Posted: 02:53 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 dan
And right now you’re just proving our statement that all the Yankees and Mets do is unload their fat wallets on washed-up ex-Phillies. The only reason you have A-Rod is you’re the only team that can afford him and the only reason you had Ruth was because you bought him from the Red Sox gay-ass theatre-loving owner so he could put on another play.
Posted: 02:53 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Rick
, Richia Ashburn, Jimmie Foxx, Jim Bunning, Robin Roberts, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose…
Hmmm…. Some pretty great players!
Posted: 02:54 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 dan
And Staci, first of all, change your name to the right spelling and tell your parents I said, “you’re welcome.” Second, we didn’t yell because he was hurt, it was because he stood on the field for another twenty minutes so you could get your reliever warmed up. Flashes of Jose Reyes.
Posted: 02:56 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
are you sure you are from Brooklyn, or did you take that long so that you good go on google or something and find out which parts of NY are fans of which teams..
Staci.. where did you get those beautiful HOOP EARINGS and that Gold-Chain with your name on it?
I don’t what any one else says.. I think you like mad fly
Posted: 02:59 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
fa sho
Posted: 03:00 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Yankee Fan
Maybe the phillies should sell thier team and make the stadium a theatre so the fans can have some good entertainment. And they can bring those stupid little towels to cry on like they did when they got swept in the playoffs last year.
Posted: 03:00 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 dan
Yeah, Yankee fan. Tell us about Brooklyn. What do you like about it? What’s your favorite restaurant?
Posted: 03:02 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
Enough with the towels, dork… it looks great when an entire stadium in waiving them around
Posted: 03:04 PM on July 15, 2008
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I like that philly fans don’t live here. And Grimaldi’s.
Posted: 03:04 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 dan
True, theatre is much better entertainment. And I won’t forget my towel so I can cry when I go see a play. You can borrow mine for the next time the Sox come back from being three games down to win the next four in the ALCS. Pussy.
Posted: 03:05 PM on July 15, 2008
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Dum, it looks great when an entire stadium in waiving them around?
Well the only thing I can say the phillies will be waiving their white towels because they are going to get beaten pretty bad.
Posted: 03:07 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Staci
Even the BRAVES fans didn’t cheer when Ryan Church was injured and I thought they were the LEAST classy fans of all…. I’ve never been to Shea or anywhere where the FANS boo an injured player (i’m not saying it doesn’t happen- but I was at citizen’s bank park last year when Oliver Perez was injured running to first base on a single- and the fans were yelling the same THINGS)…let him take all the time he needs…it’s HIS HEALTH on the line…plus, baseball rules allow for relievers to take as much time as they like.
And, I’ve never lived a day in the northeastern part of the United States…
Good luck guys! I would never wish ill will on your Phillies…
Posted: 03:11 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
It would be great if you were even slightly funny…
You don’t think it looks cool when an entire stadium is twirling them around and going crazy?? Is that prohibited as a Yankee fan too???
Posted: 03:12 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Rick
Right Staci…. because Mets fans aren’t the same exact way?
You can tell by the tone of Chase’s voice that he wasn’t sincere. He didn’t say “F–K YOU!” and flip the crowd the bird or anything. By his tone, you could tell he was more in disbelief that he was being booed even though he was there voluntarily to entertain all baseball fans in general.
Also, by the way, I seem to remember the Mets fans emphatically cheering when Jimmy Rollins twisted his ankle at Shea.
Lets just agree that both Phillies fans and Mets fans make it fun/interesting for opposing fans to go to their ballparks? I personally think it has grown into a good rivalry over the past few years.
I don’t bash the Mets or their fans. Do I like it when they come to The Bank and act like obnoxious a-holes? No. But do I also realize that Phillies fans do the same at Shea? Yes.
Personally, I think Red Sox fans are the worst. They are 10x worse than Mets or Yankee fans! They are THE most obnoxious and about 80% of them have only been fans since 2004.
Posted: 03:12 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 9 in a row
Nothing is worse than reading about a little bitch fight between Yankees and Phillies fans. Why don’t you all move to Jersey and stay where you belong.
Posted: 03:14 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
Disagree… I’ve been to numerous games with the Red Sox, Yankees, and Mets… at each stadium before, and at CBP.
Each NY team’s fan base is 100 times more obnoxious then the Red Sox fans.. trust me.
Hip-Hip-JORGE!!!…. Jose-Jose-Jose-Jose (instead of Ole!, Ole!, …) for every base hit.. for a strikeout… they go nuts. Thats what fans get pissed about.. if you dude hits an extra base hit, you score a run, make a highlight play in the field… go ahead and cheer for your team… but when your guys make routine plays and you act like a jerkoff… expect the fans to hate you
Posted: 03:16 PM on July 15, 2008
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Rick- Phillies fans are the worst by FAR. I have never seen so many underage drunk morons at one time. It’s the same at Eagles games or at the bars after the games when they all chant the stupid Eagles cheer. Honestly, I have been to Yankees fans and sat through the “26 rings” chant by a group of 18 year olds who can barely remember 1996. I’ve sat through games at Fenway too and they are not that bad. Philly, on the other hand, is filled with no class frat boys looking for fights. I’m sure the Mets have similar fans but nowhere near the amount of uneducated idiots.
Posted: 03:18 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
Mets fans are pickle-kissers like you, who go on the opposing teams fan-site …create the name “9-in-a-row” (which you guys sure could have used last year down the stretch, instead of this year, to still be trailing at the All-Star break”
and talk a bunch of smack from a computer.. that probably “fell off a truck”
Posted: 03:24 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Staci
I LOVE LOVE LOVE sitting next to FUN fans from opposing teams…and I have had great experiences with Phillies fans at Citizens Bank Park- since I live in DC, I’ve never seen the Phillies play at Shea (unfortunately)… Yes, I wear my Mets shirt…and I also let 10 year olds heckle me…I don’t say anything back…But, win or lose…if the nice Phillies fans sitting next to us want to take a look at my scorecard or have a friendly conversation…I’m all FOR IT. I must have looked totally dejected after hearing 3 generations of Phillies fans behind us yelling “FAGGOT PIG REYES” (I’m not even sure what that means…) thru 6 innings on Friday/ July 4th…because the Phillies fans (who are the reason, I say- NOT ALL) next to me leaned over and said “We’re not all like that I promise”…and I smiled and said “it’s nice to know that not ALL people like their 5 year olds to be yelling things like that at baseball games”….It was disappointing to be in such a beautiful stadium, with a playoff like atomsphere, so much tension, GREAT game (even in a loss for the METS)….to be treated so rotten. Yet, after hearing “don’t wreck on the turnpike” several times, we decided to buy tickets for Saturday night’s game….just to give Phillies fans another chance.
*sigh*
Posted: 03:24 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 ZeroPlayoffWinsSince1993
I tend to agree Rick. There are both low class and solid fans for all teams; even the Cardinals fans can be out of line. You seem like a sensible fan yourself. Having said that, while Utley made a mistake and owned up to it (and it wasn’t that big of a deal IMO), it is low class to celebrate an F-bomb on one of the larger national stages that is partially a family event. Staci, you seem to have a voice of reason too, but I’m not sure all Braves’ fans are classy. I just hope my kid doesn’t have to ask me at the next Mets-Phils game we attend why Phillies’ fans are wearing those “Boo. F— You” T-shirts. It’s been a great rivalyy. Keep it somewhat clean if you can. Agreed that Bosox fans are the pits.
Posted: 03:28 PM on July 15, 2008
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Don M- I live in upstate New York so keep your unsolicited stereotypes to yourself. I think all fans are tired of being treated without any respect in Philadelphia. The reason I am on this website is to see what the Philly reaction was to Chase’s F bomb. I was not surprised to see it celebrated.
Posted: 03:33 PM on July 15, 2008
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I am a Phillies fan who is embarrassed by the rest of the fans. Why are we so obnoxious? Honestly, I hate to admit it by 9 in a row has a point. I will never take my kids back to Citizens Bank. It’s sad but the people on this post prove my point. Get a life people.
Posted: 03:37 PM on July 15, 2008
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I’ve seen some bad fans in Boston and NY but Philly takes the cake. Those people are nasty and cruel. I saw a man spit on a child and the security guard refused to act. That says it all.
Posted: 03:40 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
I think about 3 people “celebrated it” … I think it was completely uncalled for… and wearing a microphone, you need to be smarter then that..
All the stadiums are the same… if you dress like one of the players, cheer for routine plays, etc… the opposing fans are going to get on you.
If you keep to yourself, and cheer when its waranted.. home fans will actually stick up for you if drunks bother you… two years ago I had tickets in RF when the Cards were in town… FREEZING cold game.. and these younger cards fans.. college age dudes with girlfriends.. started getting peanuts, popcorn, change, empty beer bottles and all kinds of stuff thrown their way.. and a few of us started yelling stuff at the drunk Phils fans that were being tough.. until those guys got thrown out of the stadium..
I’m Chicago-bound for the Phillies-Cubs at the end of August, and i’ve heard that Cubbies fans aren’t so welcoming anymore, now that its “cool” to be a Cubs fan again in Chicago…
Posted: 03:41 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
What are the odds a 3 anti-Phillies postings in a 7-minute span, from 3 different people….
Posted: 03:43 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 9 in a row
The same odds of knowing someone with a bad experience in Philly.
Posted: 03:45 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Giles
hey 9 in a row, i live in NYC as well… so let’s not pretend that all of a sudden we’re a little safer than the people in philly. Maybe you should escape from your doorman upper east side apartment and visit a real part of the city. This is why most NYers hate yankee fans, coddled little turd burglars… as long as their big time city apartment isn’t all that much different than their westchester/long island/new jersey mommy’s pad. Won’t step 10 yards outside of yankee stadium and it’s squalor, but would gladly pay thousands for tickets… and save your retort, i’m from ny, live in nyc and wipe my own ass… go wash your gap khakis, fag.
Posted: 03:48 PM on July 15, 2008
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get me 50 t shirts.
I never knew that utley has so much charisMa
Posted: 03:49 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 9 in a row
Giles, can you repeat that in English? Did you miss the part where I said I dont live in NYC? You sure do sound jealous though.
Posted: 03:50 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Red Sox fan here
Don M- Odds are pretty good I guess. I understand your point and I apologize for throwing you in the mix but the overall Philly mentality is disgusting.
Posted: 03:55 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Charlie
I love it. Now the Mets fans are bashing the Yankees fans on a Phillies website. GO TO YOUR OWN F**KING WEBSITES!
Yes Philadelphia fans are the most passionate and knowledgeable fans in all of sport. However, we also demand excellence, but we never get it. We end up frustrated and yes we can get vulgar.
I was 11 years old when I had my first beer fall on me at a Phillies game (and I had all my Phillies gear on). I didn’t care then, and I don’t care now. Get rowdy at games, have fun. I know I do.
Posted: 03:55 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 CZ
I think the problem is two-fold. Philadelphia fans are BY FAR the most passionate fans in the country. There is no doubt about that. They will go out to support their team no matter how they are playing but they will absolutely give them a piece of their mind if they are not putting out the effort. THAT SHOULD BE THE RIGHT OF EVERY FAN – WE PAY GOOD MONEY FOR THE CHANCE TO SUPPORT OUR TEAM. Unfortunately, because of this passion, and a lot of bad seasons (which fans have no control over – therefore Yankees fans are not better fans if their team happens to win more championships) Philly has accrued a reputation for being a tough place to play.
The other fact is the national media, has and always will perpetuate the stereotype that Philly fans are the rudest, crudest, most classless fans around. That simply is not true. I have been to sporting events all over the world and I don’t think a valid argument can be unbiasly made that there is really any difference. Everyone boos. Everyone gives it to opposing fans. Every stadium has a spattering of drunk assholes. That’s just the way it is. Philly fans are passionate. We may make some mistakes but I’d rather have that passion and not be afraid to show it then sit on my hands all game waiting for something to happen.
No one is perfect…except maybe Cards fans…but they are just TOO nice for comfort. So if all of you have nothing better to do than make comments on another team’s blog then at least stop repeating the same verbal diarhea that ESPN spouts off everytime a game is nationally televised from Philly and actually get your facts straight. The Santa Claus we boed was actually a drunk fan pulled out of the stands in a makeshift costume. Not even a ‘real professional’ fake guy.
Posted: 04:02 PM on July 15, 2008
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I love how you rationalize acting like that. It is NOT your right to boo, curse and act immature. I don’t care how much money you pay. You wonder why the free agents avoid Philly.
Posted: 04:04 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Charlie
The free agents avoid Philly because our teams have a history of not paying the big bucks for guys like Santana, A-Rod, etc.
People who play here and play their heart out earn our respect, and they love to play here. Just ask Rowand. He would have stayed if the organization would have shelled out the cash.
Posted: 04:07 PM on July 15, 2008
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9 in a row – Have you ever been to a ‘soccer’ game in Europe? Most people would assume, because the media says so, that Europeans are classier and nicer than Americans. AS Roma had to shut their fans out of a game because they shot a flaming projectile at the referee.
I am absolutely not trying to condone anything beyond booing and a little shouting. I don’t go beyond that myself, however, what I am trying to do is place Philly fans into the context of sports fans as a whole.
Posted: 04:15 PM on July 15, 2008
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Just because soccer fans shoot flaming projectiles doesn’t give Philly fans the right to curse, spit, throw beer, challenge every opposing fan to a fight and make games uncomfortable for parents with children. I agree that Philly fans are probably better than the European fans we read about. Congratulations.
Posted: 04:21 PM on July 15, 2008
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I will also add, that if we are citing personal experience, I happen to be a Phillies fan living in NYC. I have been to games at Shea when the Phils were in town and been thoroughly worked over by the Mets fans. I’ve had peanuts thrown at me constantly for innings on end, I’ve been heckled and stared down multiple times. You know what? I don’t care. I’ts classless yes, but its par for the course. Its their house and I am invading it. I understand that. I also keep my mouth shut and enjoy the game. I was just in Philly for the game on the 5th of July and I found Mets fans much less respectful of the fact that they were the road team. They started all of their obnoxious chants and flat out taunted the Phillies fans into action. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? If you ask for it, then get what you ask for I don’t see how you can complain. For my part, I left it well enough alone but this is just what sports has become. It is what it is. Its no worse in Philly then it is at Shea.
Posted: 04:24 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
you’re a douche.. who has spent an entire afternoon not making any sense, or any valid points about how Phillies fans and Mets fans hate each other.. and aren’t all that welcoming to each others fans…
There are 3 Philadelphia athletes that don’t get booed… Utley, Brian Dawkins, and Mike Richards… because they give it their all.. when good seats to games cost $50+ … you have every right boo players that don’t give it their all…
I believe it was Mickey Mantle.. that said he hustled so hard every game because there might be some father who paid good money to bring his kid to the ball game for the first time.. and he didn’t want to cheat him…. THAT is class and the kind of guy every fan wants to root for
Posted: 04:26 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
I hope 9-in-a-row in their longest winning streak for the next 20 years
Posted: 04:27 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 CZ
Don M – well said.
Posted: 04:28 PM on July 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Yankee Fan
Don, You are right about Mantle that is why they say the Yankees are a class team
Posted: 04:31 PM on July 15, 2008