St. Louis Cardinals 6, Philadelphia Phillies 3, game 27 of the 2010 Major League Baseball season for the home team. Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia has already been the site of a drunk fan vomiting on an off duty police officer and his daughter during an April 14Th game vs. Washington Nationals. Which happened during the Phillies 8Th overall game and 2ND home game of the season. Attention from those events among others in the past from Phillies, Eagles, Flyers and Sixers games, have all gone national and painted Philadelphia sports fans in a negative light. 17 year old teenager ran onto the playing field late in Monday's game, Phillies security staff attempted to chase the young man down in the outfield, with no success. Philadelphia Police Officer, utilized his taser, to track the young fan down, while stunned, the teen fell to the ground while taken off the field. Less than 24 hours later this situation as been the talk of national and local media, during sports talk radio on Tuesday as well as internet sources, such as this one. We've had fans visiting from St. Louis to see the Cardinals play in the City Of Brotherly Love, die at the hands of being hit by a Phillies fan who was driving drunk. Arguments among Phillies fans which escalated to a man being beat to death in seasons past. We've witnessed opposing hockey players getting into it with Flyers fans, one incident included a fan falling into the penalty box to fight a professional NHL player. National media always recall the Santa Claus situation in the late 1980's when he was attacked with snow balls. Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson was attacked as well with snow balls. Local television cameras are always reluctant to show a fan, anytime they run onto the field, basically to discourage others from doing so. The great debate is whether the officer should or shouldn't have utilized the taser on the fan, especially with him being underage, also Phillies needing to beef up their Citizens Bank Park security as the team has sold out over 50 consecutive home games, dating back to 2009 season. Not a good sports evening for Philadelphia as the Flyers fell to Boston Bruins 3-2, to fall into 2-0 series deficit during NHL Eastern Conference Semifinals.
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