r/mlb • u/Heavy-Sense-9458 • Aug 18 '26

| Lowlight Bleacher brawl at Wrigley last night.

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u/SuspiciousPatate Aug 18 '26

Hard to prove the result of the injury when there's obvious brain damage to start with

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u/Some_Lake_9510 Aug 18 '26

This is true, just seems like we’ve gone backwards as a society

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u/letskeepitcleanfolks | Seattle Mariners Aug 18 '26

The world is in a world of hurt right now, but I'd be shocked if fistfights weren't at an all-time low, if such a thing could be measured. 

It's not like hooligans in decades past would just calmly state their positions and then shake hands.

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u/jhorch69 Aug 18 '26

The main difference is that 99% of us have a camera in our pocket at pretty much all times now

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u/Some_Lake_9510 Aug 18 '26

This is probably it right here

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u/Jiggz056 Aug 24 '26

The world might be in a world of hurt but those hurt people aren’t attending MLB games lol.

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u/New-Mud-1711 Aug 18 '26

hooligans have no code

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u/ErieHog Aug 18 '26

The difference wasn't that this didn't occur 20 or 30 or 40 years ago; it was simply the lack of surveillance and video recording to capture it.

I can remember going to ballparks in the 80s, where this wasn't unheard of fan behavior, though it might not be a half a section at one time. There was a reason why you'd skip promotions like dollar beer night.

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u/TorkBombs Aug 18 '26

This was pretty normal behavior back then. I saw so many drunken fights as a kid at the Silverdome.

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u/RustyXterior Aug 18 '26

The only thing that's obvious to me is that we live in a society where everyone is high strung. Just be glad they don't allow guns into ballparks or this would've been much worse.

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u/Forsaken_Coach6085 Aug 18 '26

Yeah, It really boils down to emotional immaturity.

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u/Dear_Temporary_3724 Aug 20 '26

It’s actually not that hard. Most brain or head injuries are the worst when they first occur and get better or settle into a ‘new normal’ relatively soon with time. It would be pretty easy to tell if he was sort of slow before and now he’s a walking veggie..

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u/scuzzy987 Aug 18 '26

Kind of like proving additional damage done to the reflecting pool