Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/01/watch-beer-can-smash-into-worl.html
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Why we can’t have nice things.
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Wicked toss, Sully!
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Supposedly Pedroia asked the guy throwing beers for one, caught it, then threw it on the ground scolding “it’s warm!”
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Flimsier than I thought it was.
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Flag poles are long, full can of beer is heavy, laws of physics. 
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Gotta get them a GRONK!
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From what I understand, this isn’t surprising behavior in Boston.
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That’s the world series trophy?? Having only the Stanley Cup to compare it to, I’m not impressed.
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The repeated slo-mo gives this an oddly Zapruder-film-like treatment. Was there more than one thrower on the grassy knoll? Does analysis support the single-can theory? What acoustic evidence exists?
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Yeah. I mean if you make your trophy look like a trash can someone’s going to take a shot
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Strong agree. You can’t even chug champagne out of it!
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Pretty much sums up sports fans. I’ll admit if this was soccer, someone would probably have thrown a grenade or something equally damaging to show their “outrage”.
(Over 2000 people killed in one soccer riot)
The whole team are trained to catch things. That’s their job. I want the manager to have them review this tape over and over and then do drills to make sure it never happens again.
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They should had used pitcher gloves!
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Probably a Yankee fan
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Sorry? Are they seriously claiming that the 1971 Ibrox disaster (caused by someone falling in one of the exits, causing a crush) and the Hillsborough disaster (caused by the gross incompetence of South Yorkshire Police) were caused by hooliganism?
And as for those 2000 people killed in a “riot”, I don’t consider declarations of war normal hooligan behaviour. They also don’t normally have access to fighter and bomber aircraft either.
In short, yes there is still a violence problem in football (it was my job to stop it 15 years ago, but I never had a problem worse than verbal racism), but you don’t need lies to prove that.
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I dunno. . .
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I would have never expected an empty beer can to be so damaging. I don’t really consider them heavy.
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