Michael T. Mondak speaks about fan misbehavior
Since the pandemic, we have been seeing a disturbing pattern of fan misbehavior at sporting events. This past week, we saw two examples of fan misbehavior that should have warranted the ejection of fans. The first one came on Thursday at Flushing Meadows during the U.S. Open tennis tournament. One of the participants had autographed a hat for a young fan, only to have it swiped by the CEO of a certain Fortune 500 company. That tennis player had to step in to make things right for the young fan with a personal meeting with the fan. And that CEO eventually apologized to the venue staff, the tennis player and the young fan, who by the way, got his hat back. But on Friday night down in Miami, during the top of the fourth inning of a game between the host Miami Marlins and the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, Harrison Bader hit a solo home run that ricocheted off the chest of a female and landed on the ground to be retrieved by a Phillies fan who put the ball in his ni...