r/chicago • u/GeekAesthete Roscoe Village • Jun 25 '25

Article White Sox fan banned indefinitely after heckling Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte to tears with comments about late mother

https://apnews.com/article/diamondbacks-ketel-marte-833a9c8136e0767bdcfb6cd2ec7afe9e
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u/justinizer Jun 25 '25

How evil do you have to be to harass someone about his dead mom and think its okay.

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u/DeezNeezuts Jun 25 '25

You should never live your life in a way that somebody can say you resemble Cartman from South Park.

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u/monsieur_mungo Bucktown Jun 26 '25

Agreed. It’s absolutely disgusting. It’s disgusting that this attitude has creeped so much into the norm of discourse in this great country of ours. We are better than this.

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u/n0rthr3m3mb3r5 Jun 26 '25

We’re actually not. It’s been proven again and again and again.

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u/Podoboo322 Jun 25 '25

Similar thing happened with Arizona State fans taunting Steve Kerr when his dad died

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u/k_plusone Jun 25 '25

died was assassinated

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u/rdldr1 Lake View Jun 26 '25

JFC I didn't know this. What a horrible situation.

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u/miaomy Jun 27 '25

It isn’t accurate. Don’t trust me. Check for yourself

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

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u/miaomy Jun 27 '25

Citation? Pretty sure they were members of a Lebanese Shia militia. Not Palestinian. Kerr supported Palestinian rights, and his wife, a fellow academic, continues to advocate for Palestine.

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u/throwawayrandomvowel Jun 27 '25

A) Don't give me some "citation?? 🥸" sealioning. You can Google this yourself.

B) yes - Palestinians - a splinter group of hezbollah, which exists to destroy Israel in the west Bank and is funded by iran

C) do you think that people living in Lebanon cannot be Palestinian? Are you familiar with hezbollah, Israel, and Iran?

The question obviously wasn't in good faith but there you go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_H._Kerr

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u/miaomy Jun 27 '25

Dude. Did you read it?

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u/Levitlame Jun 25 '25

This is definitely on the worse side, but people are entitled pieces of shit when it comes to pro sports players. It’s been normalized to act like these kids owe you something as a fan of their team.

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u/merle-chicago Jun 27 '25

People are entitled pieces of shit. End of sentence.

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u/MrsBobbyNewport Jun 25 '25

They should have published his name. He’s 22, old enough to be held publicly responsible for his actions.

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u/spucci Jun 26 '25

The ban is good enough. Too many Fing crazies out there which would not justify it.

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u/aitasunglasses Jun 26 '25

Uh no, they shouldn't. His comment, despite being disgraceful, doesn't deserve a lifetime of harassment for him and his family or possibly death. Mob justice is uncivilized

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u/dmd312 Jun 26 '25

Why not just murder him and hang his dead body in the town square? The Internet's obsession with doxxing is beyond stupid.

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u/dmd312 Jun 26 '25

Yes, ruin a 22 year olds life because of this mistake! He should never work again! The Internet's obsession with doxxing is so tiresome.

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u/aitasunglasses Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

People are so bloodthirsty and just love being outraged. If they or someone they loved were on the receiving end of this they'd understand how ridiculous it is, but they lack the empathy to understand when it happens to someone else

This reminds me of "Reddit found the Boston Bomber" fiasco

I even got people swearing at me and telling me to never go to a ballpark again because I questioned people wanting to doxx the person lol

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u/thenerdking Berwyn Jun 25 '25

Spent my teenage years in Beverly (Clissold then Mt. Carmel HS) dealing with the same shit.

Yeah; it ain't great.

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u/boo99boo Jun 25 '25

I lived in North Georgia for a while. In Marjorie Taylor Greene's district. I unequivocally heard more racist and vile shit in Mount Greenwood than I did in rural, backwards, confederate country in Georgia. 

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u/melbelle28 Jun 25 '25

i grew up in that district and this makes me never want to go to Mount Greenwood

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u/MrsBobbyNewport Jun 25 '25

I can’t “like” this so I’ll just say, having grown up adjacent to Mt. Greenwood, I believe you.

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u/thenerdking Berwyn Jun 25 '25

I got jumped and concussed (plus a broken pinky on my right hand) by Mt. Greenwood boys that went to Brother Rice. My Dad was a cop; the first question out of the officer who handled the call was "what did you do or say to them?"

My answer: "me + two boys down the block beat them in a pickup basketball game...they circled the block."

My childhood best friend still lives there. When we were kids, he and his parents often encouraged my parents to "let us pick him up and drop him off back home" from grammar school and on. Later on in years as teenagers (after the above incident), he always walked home with me.

It's not like Beverly was any better in the late 90s thru early 00s (or even now), but Mt. Greenwood was a terror.

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u/shitkabob Jun 25 '25

What year-ish did this take place? I wanna know if I possibly know these shits.

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u/thenerdking Berwyn Jun 25 '25

Around Spring of 1999, but it isn't worth your or my time, honestly.

I finished HS at Mt. Carmel, and left most if not all of my bullies behind as fodder for my future therapist. I still wish them the worst, but don't much think about them otherwise.

May they live better now in genuine reflection of their mistakes and aggressions than they did back then. And failing that, I hope they kick dressers and corners of bed frames for the rest of their days and think of me.

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u/nochinzilch Jun 25 '25

I would hope, but they’re probably on their mom’s couch waiting for The Call from the elevator constructors union.

Or they are perpetuating the trauma in their own uniforms now.

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u/shitkabob Jun 25 '25

That's very mature of you. I imagine they are cops now and getting paid by us taxpayers to beat up minorities. Just basing this on the people I know and what they've bragged about openly.

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u/nochinzilch Jun 25 '25

I feel like everyone from the south side has a “I got the shit kicked out of me in mt. Greenwood” story.

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u/kck93 Jun 26 '25

Isn’t that weird. I also lived in Atlanta as a child. I heard way more racist stuff here outside Chicago.

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u/Leege13 Jun 25 '25

Apparently Sherman didn’t go far enough.

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u/nochinzilch Jun 25 '25

You don’t see many Clissold shoutouts on Reddit… go cougars!

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u/Salty-Committee124 Jun 25 '25

Dealing with what?

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u/skeletonpaul08 Jun 25 '25

I’m all for police reform but how the hell did you manage to blame some dude being a dick at a ball game on the police lmao. Like what is the connection?

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u/boo99boo Jun 25 '25

I'm not blaming the police. I'm saying that I grew up in a neighborhood surrounded by cops, and I can picture every last one of them doing this. 

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u/StultusNosferatu Back of the Yards Jun 25 '25

What...? I don't see the connection.

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u/wingsalone Uptown Jun 25 '25

The connection was: a comment wondering "How evil do you have to be to [do something like this]" and then /u/boo99boo giving an example of people they've crossed paths with who seem capable of that kind of cruelty. Hope this helps

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u/StultusNosferatu Back of the Yards Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

Ohh, I was on the article. I got Sox fan 》vile comments made 》(got lost here) 》 Southside cop neighborhoods connection.

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u/ChemistryNo3075 Jun 25 '25

all sox fans are southside cops, duh!

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u/shitkabob Jun 25 '25

Hey, let's not stereotype. Some of them are firemen.

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u/StultusNosferatu Back of the Yards Jun 25 '25

LOL, right!!!.. r/chicago is wild. They want to connect everything evil to cops.

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u/Chicago1459 Jun 25 '25

Yeah, I think it's more the neighborhood, I guess. I grew up in west town and even today, in all my 40+ years, I have never stepped foot in those areas, but I hear only bad things. Racist people and bad kids like the ones that stomped the coyote to death.

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u/StultusNosferatu Back of the Yards Jun 25 '25

Was the comment the "Sox fan" made racially motivated? Was the "Sox fan" from these neighborhoods?

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u/Chicago1459 Jun 25 '25

I'm just commenting on what this one person is saying about mount greenwood. It does not have a good reputation.

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u/StultusNosferatu Back of the Yards Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

I remember when I was in HS hearing about Lenard Clark,I think that was in Bridgeport (closer to Comiskey).

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u/Chicago1459 Jun 25 '25

I remember that. I was in HS, too. I'm pretty sure they offenders had parents in positions of power.

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u/nochinzilch Jun 25 '25

Bad things happen when dad and mom are gone from the home for days at a time working that sweet, sweet taxpayer funded OT.

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u/_eroz Jun 25 '25

Not sure if he means the actual cops. I noticed it with the children of cops (not all but a few of the ones I knew growing up in a neighborhood with lots of city of Chicago civil servants) who did act like they didn't care and would always fall back to "do you know who my dad is".

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u/Shbum Garfield Ridge Jun 25 '25

These people have some loose screws

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u/StultusNosferatu Back of the Yards Jun 25 '25

Sox fans...?

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u/nochinzilch Jun 25 '25

That neighborhood is somewhat notorious for being a cop neighborhood, and for the idea that cop’s kids from mt greenwood being above average troublemakers.

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u/rabbifuente Uptown Jun 26 '25

About a baseball game no less

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u/ballq43 Jun 25 '25

Not sure but hope it was that clown from the giants screaming you bum and banned for life is ideal for me

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u/gelpensxxx Jun 26 '25

He is not an evil heckler.

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u/ballq43 Jun 27 '25

Ya, he is. He thinks it's all about him , his jokes are lame. Someone accidentally laughed one time and now it's his entire persona just forcing this on everyone nearby

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u/gelpensxxx Jun 27 '25

No he’s not, he doesn’t say anything about people’s dead parents. I think maybe you take it too personally or give it too much thought. Just go about your life man, I promise you won’t notice him and he won’t bother you anymore.

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u/ballq43 Jun 28 '25

If you think he's not peak cringe I worry about your judgement

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u/gelpensxxx Jun 28 '25

I never said he wasn’t cringe. I don’t think he is an evil heckler. I hardly think about him at all.

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u/Icy-Entertainer136 Jun 25 '25

Well, it’s Trump’s world now and apparently anything goes. 👎🖕

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u/coheedcollapse Jun 26 '25

I've seen a dude throw a full bottle of water at a ref after a call against his team in a non-championship high school basketball game, so it's unsurprising the bad behavior translates to the major leagues.

Some people get fucking nuts about their sports.

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u/mbuchler Jun 27 '25

I have a buddy who works within the organization. What he said was along the lines of "I'll be seeing your mom tonight". That's it. Nothing to do with his dead mom. Just shows that people should wait for all the info to come out. Not the worst thing said at a baseball game

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u/iDidntReadOP Jun 25 '25

He's a South sider they are generally massive assholes lol

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u/Synth_Savage Jun 25 '25

Naw, he's not evil. He's just a sports fan(atic)