Angry fan throws beer can into Rays' dugout in Cuba protest

[Roland99]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/angry-fan-throws-beer-can-into-rays-dugout-in-cuba-protest/ar-BBqYqTg?ocid=ansmsnsports11

A man apparently angered by the Tampa Bay Rays' recent trip to Cuba made his way onto the field and threw a full can of beer into the team's dugout Saturday night during a spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Nobody was hurt. A member of the Pirates' grounds crew and Rays third base coach Charlie Montoyo restrained the protester until police arrived, briefly delaying the game.

The man was arrested and will be charged with causing a fray, trespassing and assault, Bradenton police Lt. John Affolter said. Police would not yet identify the man.

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According to players and Bradenton police, the man shouted obscenities about the Castro regime in Cuba. He threw a can of beer that smashed into the back wall of the Rays' dugout.

smh

[Rex]

1. How pathetic...did anyone remind him this is not the 1960s?

Wow...the Reagan Regime finally dies off and people are losing their minds!

[shenmue]

2. Charge him with cruelty to beer

Jerk.

[47of74]

12. Depends on the type of beer thrown

[jmowreader]

3. The Rays seem pretty mellow about it

The guy was screaming in Spanish...my guess is, a Cuban refugee just got drunk off his ass at the game and decided to vent his frustrations over the Castro regime at the team who just got back from playing béisbol down there. The team is all, "well, maybe a few guys got wet." Hopefully the judge just gives him a stern talking-to and releases him.

[NBachers]

4. What's the penalty for "Causing a fray?"

[teach1st]

5. "To me it was an old person drunk, so I felt bad for him"

Tampa Bay Times

Rays 3B coach Charlie Montoyo grabbed the man and put him in a bear hug until police came from the other side of the field.

"I just saw him throwing stuff to the dugout and then I realized his age, so I was just holding him and I was telling him, I realized he speaks Spanish, telling him to relax," Montoyo said. "I didn't hear what he was yelling, I just saw the two things and then I was holding him. He smelled like beer or rum or something. … To me it was an old person drunk, so I felt bad for him."

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. Was it Marco Rubio?

Oh wait he doesn't show up in Florida anymore.

[dembotoz]

7. lol

[Roland99]

13. Bazinga!

[Yavin4]

14. He doesn't have enough arm strength to throw a beer can n/t

[Initech]

8. What a waste of a perfectly good beer!

[DBoon]

10. Don't be so sure

It might have been Bud Light

[47of74]

11. Or Keystone Light, or Milwaukee's Best...

...or some other bottom shelf toilet water.

[dembotoz]

9. thank you gop for making it ok to be a hooligan

now if only we could get more decent soccer over here