This is how Baseball Players SHOULD respond to hecklers..

[SirFozzie]

http://torontosun.com/Sports/Baseball/2007/05/08/4162470-sun.html

http://torontosun.com/Sports/Baseball/2007/05/08/0508_vernon200.jpg

Message on the ball, as seen in Jeff Raycher photographs:

"Dear Mr. Dork,
Here is your ball! Can you please tell me what gas station you work at, so when you are pumping my gas, I can yell at you!!! Now sit down, shut up and enjoy the game.
- Your favorite centrefielder


Vernon Wells may get another chance to meet his heckler friend on Sept. 10.

Jeff Raycher, Vernon Wells heckler extraordinaire, has a surprise in store for the Blue Jays centre fielder.

Raycher, 28, and his buddies plan to drive to Detroit for the Jays' makeup game there on Sept. 10. That's when Round Two will begin.

Last Wednesday during a game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Raycher and some of the other "Bleacher Creatures" had a running, good natured banter going with Wells that ended with Wells tossing a ball to Raycher complete with a tongue-in-cheek message.

"Usually all we get is a tip of the hat or a wave," Raycher said of their heckling of whomever the centre fielder is that's playing against their beloved Indians. "This night we had at least 100 or so (fans) jumping on board and getting on Vernon pretty good.

"He got pretty interactive with us and it was getting louder and louder. Then around the sixth inning he was warming up and faked tossing a ball to us and tossed it into a section further over. So he got us there."

Wells really got them the next inning when he tossed the "message ball" to them.

"I stood up and read what was on the ball to everybody in our section and we were dying laughing," Raycher said. "We're going to hang on to the ball for sure. It all was so much fun.

"So when we drive to Detroit in September, we're going to come up with something clever."

Maybe Wells will be prepared too.

[sachmo71]

I think they should hit them with their purses.

[Klinglerware]

I'm just amused that Wells chose to adhere to Canadian spelling convention...

[Ksyrup]

I'm just amused that Wells chose to adhere to Canadian spelling convention...

He was only 50/50 on that. No 'u' in favorite.

[MikeVic]

I'm just amused that Wells chose to adhere to Canadian spelling convention...

Centre looks ok, but shouldn't favorite be favourite? He's almost there!

[Ksyrup]

Ha! Scooped by an American!

[MikeVic]

Ha! Scooped by an American!

:mad:

[Travis]

Ah Vernon, attaboy. Next time hit a home run into their beer :D

[bbor]

Next time throw John Gibbons at them.

[gstelmack]

I think he missed some words, eh?

[Klinglerware]

Not a bad attempt, all in all...

[Ksyrup]

Instead of Mr. Dork, he should have addressed him as "You Hoser."

[Young Drachma]

I bet the batboy wrote it, not V. Wells.

[sterlingice]

That's pretty damn funny.

SI

[korme]

i am going to the jake this saturday! SCREW THOSE FANS!

[Vince]

A+

Vernon Wells is now my hero, regardless of who actually wrote that.

[Maple Leafs]

Very strong move, although it won't seem as funny the next time he goes to fill up and the attendant knocks out his tail light.

Still, nothing will ever match the Steve Sullivan broken nose incident.

[Ksyrup]

Griffey ups the ante!



Griffey's gesture wins Dodger fan's support
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There are Ken Griffey Jr. (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=4305) fans and there are Ken Griffey Jr. supporters. The two worlds met at Dodger Stadium, when the Cincinnati Reds (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=cin) outfielder won over a heckler with a one-of-a-kind souvenier.

A new size-XXL athletic supporter.

The fan, seated behind the Reds dugout, was riding Griffey all game long on Friday before Griffey turned the tables.

"We were getting eye contact from all the players when I decided I would give the Dodgers (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=lad) an extra edge," the fan wrote on his MySpace page. "I was going to try and get in Ken Griffey Jr.'s head a little bit. He had to walk right by us to get to the dugout and I just couldn't help myself."

"So I started with the basics: 'you suck ... shouldn't you be on the D.L. ... too old for center ... that kind of stuff."

Griffey told the Enquirer he was happy to play along.

"He was just on me every time I came in," Griffey told the newspaper. "Him being a little larger than normal, I just asked, 'Shouldn't you be wearing a support bra?' "

In the sixth inning, Griffey sent someone back to the Reds clubhouse to fetch the largest athletic supporter he could find. The accomplice wrote the number "3" and "JR" on the waistband, and Griffey put the supporter in a brown paper bag, rolled it up and tossed it to the fan when he ran back onto the field, the Enquirer reported.

The fan opened the bag, pulled out the athletic supporter and began twirling it on his finger, with stadium cameras broadcasting the man's reaction for posterity.

"He was like, 'Whoa!'" Griffey told the Enquirer. "I turned around before all that stuff happened, but I could hear that section just laughing. Then I turned around and just saw him twirling it in the air like a helicopter."

The fan was won over.

"When Griffey came back in, I told him I was sorry about what [i] said about his mom and that I wanted to make up," the fan wrote on his MySpace page. "He shot me a grin. When he came out in the 8th [inning] he shot me another smile and I told him he still has the greatest swing in baseball. I hope he heard me, I think he did. I love Griffey."

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[Maple Leafs]

That's now two players who've done this and it's been funny.

I wish I could buy stock in things like "the next guy to try it will screw it up and it won't be funny at all, and everyone will be outraged".

[Logan]

I sense another "Vince Coleman and fireworks" coming.

[Oilers9911]

I'm betting it's Giambi. Someone chants STEROIDS at him and Giambi provides a urine sample right into the poor heckler's beer.

[Maple Leafs]

I'm betting it's Giambi. Someone chants STEROIDS at him and Giambi provides a urine sample right into the poor heckler's beer.
Based on some of the rumors going around about Giambi's, um, "hobbies", the fan would probably be lucky if that's all they got.

[Oilers9911]

Based on some of the rumors going around about Giambi's, um, "hobbies", the fan would probably be lucky if that's all they got.

Ugh, do I want to know?

[miami_fan]

Based on some of the rumors going around about Giambi's, um, "hobbies", the fan would probably be lucky if that's all they got.

TMI! TMI!

[sterlingice]

I wish I could buy stock in things like "the next guy to try it will screw it up and it won't be funny at all, and everyone will be outraged".

Buy, buy, buy!

The only problem I have with this is that you know every jerkoff in the world is going to be trying that much harder just because they could get a kickass ebay ite--- uh, souvenir. Not only that but I love how we apparently read about this through some jackass's myspace page. Sometimes I just want to get rid of the internet.

SI