VANCOUVER — It has been a very long time since the behaviour of sports fans, when moved to extremes by either joy or anger, made much sense to me.
Too many years of not caring who wins as long as it’s a good story, probably. As Trump would say: sad.
Beer throwers, though — or anyone aiming projectiles at athletes engaged in playing the game — are understood by no one but themselves.
That’s why the fans in the section of the Rogers Centre outfield from which the can of beer was thrown at Baltimore Orioles left fielder Hyun Soo Kim during Tuesday night’s American League wild-card game booed and glared at the thrower.