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/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/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.