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There are idiot fans in every crowd. Buton the other hand why draw attention to yourself and make a comment that you should be the closer over Mo. He is a frekkin GOD in New York moron.

Agreed. It's bad enough coming to NY as a Boston player but why open your mouth at all unless you've really thought it through. Come in, do your job and keep your mouth shut while in New York. Especially during a media hyped event like the allstar game.

stay classy New York

What kind of reactions did Papelbon expect to get from NY baseball fans (fan = short for fanatic) when he opened his big mouth saying what he said? You can bet the same thing would have happened if a Yankee player acted the same way in Beantown. But Yankee players have much more class than this guy and they would not make stupid comments like he did.

If anything happened to his pregnant wife, he himself should be the one to get the blame. Luckily nothing happened to her. He should be thankful that NY fans showed restraint.

If you are in the national spotlight, this is going to happen. In order to be successful, you have to accept that. And on top of that, he is a Boston Red Sock in New York. He knows this was going to happen. So HE put his wife in harms way. His wife should also know that her husband is famous and he his hated in this town.

If anything happened to his pregnant wife, he himself should be the one to get the blame. Luckily nothing happened to her. He should be thankful that NY fans showed restraint.

AYanksFan | 07/16/08, 07:10 AM

That is quite posibbly the most retarded thing I've ever seen posted on FanNation.

^I agree. It's implying that someone would actually contiplate attacked a pregnant woman no matter who she's married to.

I'm glad we can all justify threating a pregnant woman who has a dumb husband

All you Yankee fans should grow up . Tearing up a pregnant women for a comment her husband made is plain wrong. This is a game not real life. Deal with the man as a man. This is sooo grade schoolish. Now all you Yankee fan's, if that what you consider yourselves, can pat yourselves on the back for showing what arses you really are. To say " luckily nothing happened to her" just blows my mind. This is a SPORT arseholes get over it.

bunch of tough guys insulting a pregent woman. insult pap all you want but leave his preggers wife out of it. what a bunch of classless b00bs these NY fans are.

PS- JD Drew ALL STAR MVP

So HE put his wife in harms way. His wife should also know that her husband is famous and he his hated in this town.
Gu3- O's Are Just Below .500 | 07/16/08, 07:11 AM
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Pap should be able to say "stupid" statements and not have his wife recieve death threats because of them!!

HI Becca!

Typical NY, no class.

Since when is a parade = "harm's way"?

i highly doubt there was even a single threat directed at his wife. Probably at him, but definitely not his wife. She probably heard plenty of lewd things, but he is not exactly floating a low profile. So now he's creating a fuss and crying victim to deflect the attention off his huge ego and onto new york fans.

HEY I completely understand I was feared the safety of the game when he came in to pitch. Its one thing to be a good pitcher but to be a snot nosed punk. Well congrats on both.

Touching his wife is way off-limits. This is America, not Iraq. This is baseball, not Desert Storm III. Anyone going after a guys wife/child is a first rate ****, and needs his clock cleaned. I hate the Sox and Paps, but keep the barbs and insults to him and not the innocent people attached to him.

saying NY is classless is in itself classless. save us all the cliches and BS.

"I've said from the very beginning, since two days ago, and talked to Tito [Red Sox manager Terry Francona] about it, I said, 'I want Mariano to close.' I understand what it's about to pay your dues in this game and what it's about to put in your time," Papelbon said, according to the Web site. "If you were to ask me, of course I wanted to close. That's my competitive nature."

Papelbon said he was shocked when he saw a New York Daily News headline that read "PAPELBUM! Red Sox reliever says he, not Mariano, should close tonight's All-Star Game."

"That was an easy headline for that [newspaper] to say, 'Yeah, Papelbon said he wants to close.' Yeah, of course I do," Papelbon said, according to the site. "That's my competitive nature. But I'm stepping away and saying I don't need to close."

Papelbon told MLB.com that he was so disturbed by the parade incident that he didn't even care if he pitched on Tuesday.

"Your family gets involved like that and you're trying to enjoy an experience with your family, and you have a wife who's pregnant who doesn't feel safe riding in a red-carpet event, you know what I mean? How would you feel?" Papelbon said, according to MLB.com.

no one touched his wife joec. does this stupid blurp mention an arrest? no. papelbon is pulling peoples sympathy to deflect the fact he is a complete jackass