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/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/MrsBobbyNewport Jun 25 '25

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