Baseball fan caught sleeping at game sues ESPN TV announcers

[davidloach]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...-announcers/syOEtn48F0yMHUUYEJWeDJ/story.html

NEW YORK — A Yankees fan has filed a $10 million lawsuit against two ESPN announcers contending they mocked him when he was caught on national television sleeping in his seat during a game at Yankee Stadium.

Andrew Robert Rector admits in court documents he ‘‘napped’’ during a game against the Boston Red Sox on April 13, but says commentators Dan Shulman and John Kruk unleashed an ‘‘avalanche of disparaging words’’ against him. The suit says they used words like ‘‘fatty’’ and ‘‘stupid.’’

Rector says he suffered ‘‘substantial injury’’ to his ‘‘character and reputation’’ and ‘‘mental anguish, loss of future income and loss of earning capacity.’’

The lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court Thursday also names ESPN, Major League Baseball and the Yankees as defendants. They didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Yikes if this guy is suing for $10 million, imagine how much that monstrous RS fan could make based on how much we've mocked him.

 

[Deloodid]

Hamburger sales are up tho.

 

[Bungle]

 

[bluelife]

That's amazing. It's weird how far people will go to try to make money

 

[Garrick]

Streisand effect, in full effect.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Where's the transcript of the broadcast? Would be quite unusual for Kruk and Schulman to call that stupid fatty a stupid fatty when the red light is on.

*Just watched the segment in the video, nothing disparaging there

 

[Huyton Layne]

Needs to put in the T&C when you buy a ticket that TV can mock you. Sleeping fatties are fair game IMO

 

[Bungle]

I'm impressed they managed to resist the urge to run down to the stands with some permanent markers and turn him into a clown, they should be applauded for their restraint.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

$10 million?? Really??

 

[Minimeister]

It would be hard to stay awake watching that.

 

[FTY]

Hahahahahaha wtf.

 

[royalblue66]

Take cover Bill

 

[Username]

Cracking observational skills on display from the espn dudes, that fat stupid dude was all day really.

 

[Tubey]

I actually think he has a case. It's defamation of character if they did use those terms, and there's no public interest excuse behind making them in the media.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Reminds me of that woman who successfully sued McDonald's for getting burned by hot coffee, which she'd bought herself. That's why coffee cups say "CAUTION STUPID PERSON, THE CONTENTS OF THIS IS HOT!" on them.