Former Major League Baseball pitcher Joe Kelly was well-known for stirring the pot while he played, making quite a few enemies along the way. Now, having not pitched in the big leagues since last season, he has also apparently made at least one enemy in youth baseball as well.
This week, on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast, Joe Kelly recalled a crazy incident with a fan that occurred while he was coaching his son’s 9-year-old team, the Lake Area Rattlers, at the USSSA World Series.
“I’m sitting on my bucket seeing who’s coming up with their lineup,” he recalled. “Like, how am I going to get easy outs? And I’m going through it and all of a sudden I hear someone and I turn around and I’m on the field and it’s this person. Uh, I can’t go too much into detail of who it is. Later I found, I’ll tell you, just talking dumb s—.
“I turn around. I have my glasses on and like ‘Are you afraid you’re going to lose to Assault?’ And I was like, ‘What?, And then this person gets closer right and, like on the field, on the field, right there on the field. So I’m sitting on the field and he leans over and crosses where you can come from the dugout and like, ‘Yeah, you heard me. Are you afraid you’re going to lose to Assault?’
“I’m like, since I’ve been here I’ve never lost to Assault. Like, are you kidding me? Like, this team’s easy, what are you talking about? This is the easiest championship game. Like, the the game before was my championship game – the Braves. That’s a good team. They make adjustments. Their coach, that head coach is smart and so I said that and the person didn’t like it.
“And all of a sudden out of nowhere I get my hat flicked off,” Joe Kelly continued. “Like, who does that? Like, I was like, is this person five? Flicks off my hat, right? So then I go down to pick it up on the ground and turn around and all of a sudden a fist punches me in the forehead.
“And meanwhile, my kids are right there. I don’t care if you’re Joe Kelly. I don’t care if you’re a regular coach, a physical altercation on the field in a nine-year-old game is unacceptable. It’s like the craziest, disgusting, ugliest thing I’ve ever seen, right? And they’re known to do that kind of s— because they drink all day, drinking in front of their kids, don’t give a crap, cussing. Like, my pitcher called for a balk and their parents are yelling balk in the stands. Like, dude, grow up we’re gonna beat the s— out of y’all every single time.
“And so I get punched and then I have to take a step back because I’ll do something stupid. And this person may have or may not have been a man or a woman, right? And so my coach comes over, right? My coach comes over and like, ‘Do you know this person?’ I’m like, ‘F— no! Do you think I know this person?’ So my coach comes over and I’m backing away to clear off steam and I’m yelling at the other team and my coach gets bopped in the forehead too. So two of us, right? And so at this point the umpire sees and, ‘Time! Blah blah blah.’ You know, the game’s going on. Ends. And I’m like this is not safe. Like, I’m done.”
After the game, Joe Kelly filed a police complaint and it turned out that the person who assaulted him was the sibling of the manager of the other team.
Apparently, even former Major Leaguers are now having to deal with unruly and disrespectful fans now… at youth baseball games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-uSW0Q7qfo
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Ex-MLB Pitcher Joe Kelly Discusses Being Assaulted By Fan At A Youth Baseball Tournament
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