A Zingerless Future?

Here's whats interesting - watching a ball game on television when a couple of the hometown hecklers are at the top of their game and you can pretty much hear them slinging their razor sharp reparte throughout the evening - my favorite from the White Sox game at Cellular Field tonight - "Hey Sizemore, my sister says you suck!!" - Sizemore hit a double in the 11th to put the Sox up by 2 runs - a small, but boisterous crowd, chanted "Cleveland sucks!"

With the price of beer at the ballpark going up every year and the drink sales stopping in the 7th inning at a lot of places, not to mention the crazy amount of security at just about any event these days, there may be coming a day when the screaming drunk fan is more a memory than a reality. Or, perhaps I'm overvalueing the teetotaler, perhaps it is the truley insane individual that provides us with some of our favorite slings and slurs - and it is probably true that we will always have crazy people in our midst.

Just in case, I'd like to try to document some of the best insults hurled at players this year. I'll keep my ears open, you do the same. And send your best here. The best insults at the end of the year will be given the Bradley Bird, an imaginary trophy of some variety, that we can imagine is shaped like Milton Bradley's middle digit and perhaps has a cuckoo bird that shoots out of the tip of the finger every hour on the hour screaming insults. Or someone out there with too much time on their hands can make that and we'll give it to the best entry or series of entries. Ok, get to work losers!!!!