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A game thread on SoSH brought this back to my attention; Frank Francisco’s famous chair throwing incident from freshman year…

“Frank is best known for participating in one of the ugliest incidents of fan violence. On September 13, 2004, Frank threw a folding chair into the crowd in a game against the Oakland Athletics. The incident initially escalated when Rangers pitcher Doug Brocail charged from the Rangers’ bullpen to confront a fan, Craig Bueno, who, members of the Rangers later claimed, had been heckling the Rangers pitcher about his stillborn child. The chair thrown by Francisco hit Jennifer Bueno in the face and caused a cut, which required stiches. Frank was arrested and on June 30, 2005, he pleaded no contest to charges. He was sentenced to anger management classes and a work program. A civil suit brought by the woman hit with the chair was settled on January 12, 2007. Terms of the settlement included an undisclosed payment and a public apology.” - Wikipedia

The funny thing is not the chair about to hit the obese woman in the lower right corner– no– it’s the looks on the people’s faces in the section.

Some are clearly horrified that this burly Dominican was whipping folding chairs around like a frisbee during a Brown hippie-off. But better are the faces of people who are enjoying the fracas. “Yeah, take that, bitch!” My personal favorite is the Asian at the top– man, he clearly is enjoying his decision to immigrate to the Bay Area.