Where do we even begin?
Back on April 13th, Andrew Robert Rector, fell asleep at the Red Sox/Yankees game. The TV cameras caught Rector in the act.
Now, according to Court House News Service, Rector is suing ESPN announcers Dan Shulman and John Kruk, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, ESPN New York, and the New York Yankees, in Bronx County Supreme Court.
Rector is claiming that he was filmed and defamed at the game. Here are some of the nuggets from the complaint:
In the course of watching the game plaintiff napped and this opened unending verbal crusade against the napping plaintiff.
Announcers like Dan Shulman and John Kruck unleashed avalanche of disparaging words against the person of and concerning the plaintiff. These words, include but not limited to ‘stupor, fatty, unintelligent, stupid’ knowing and intending the same to be heard and listened to by millions of people all over the world.
The defendant MLB.Com continued the onslaught to a point of comparing the plaintiff to someone of a confused state of mind, disgusted disgruntled and unintelligent and probably intellectually bankrupt individual.
Nothing triggered all these assertions only that the plaintiff briefly slept off while watching the great game something or circumstance any one can easily found them self.
John Krock in his verbal attack insinuated that the plaintiff is individual that know neither history nor understood the beauty or rivalry between Boston Red Sox and New York Yankee.
Rector is looking for $10 million in damages for “defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
Moral of the story: Baseball is slow.
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