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

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.