What a shock!!! A tame ending to a fan running onto the field at Citizens Ball Park in Philadelphia tonight.

This time it was a goofball in a Spiderman costume:

Gotta love how Matt Diaz knocks him over as well. As the security guards are running around looking confused as usual. And of course the constant booing.

It was only a few months ago that Steve Consalvi made the famous call to his father asking him if it was a wise idea to run onto the field. Steve didn’t listen to his had and his running around few seconds of fame in the middle of the field resulted in the cops using tasers to take him down.

This came only a few weeks after Matthew Clemmens intentionally puked on a child.

Philly fans have always had a questionable at best perspective on an a national level. With those type of events it only helped solidfy people’s original opinions.

Even after Consalvi got tazed only a few days later another fan tried to be a wise ass and run onto the field testing the security & police. He ended up surrendering himself before it ugly.

This led to a entire summer of tazzing at sports events. The fan at a golf event heclking Tiger Woods, another fan at a minor league baseball game and a fan during the Celtics Magic playoff game.

So why did this kid get off the hook with only a little knock to the ground by Diaz?

The announcers in the game pointed out at that the police were no longer allowed on the field at Phillies game. I guess there was a big enough stink made after Consalvi got tazed down a few months ago. At the time the ball park justified it as part of security measures.

I actually bought that line of reasoning and was all for the tazing. I still stand by the fact that if you run around like an idiot security and police can’t read into your mind and they don’t know what you could potentially do. And even though it’s unlikely the person would harm anyone they can’t take any chances. Especially the players on the field who if they got hurt in anyway would have a nice lawsuit agaisnt the ball park.

But, I guess the stadium changed its rules over the past few months as it was a relatively tame take down with no police in sight.

At this point Steve Consalvi an almost be considered a martyr for any one who runs the field at Citizens Ball Park. After his tazing it forced them to change the rules and now other fans don’t face the same dangerous potential of getting tazed.

I would be very tenative to let Phillies fans know about this because now it will probably give other people more of a reason to jump the field because they can’t face the harsh reprcussions they once were up against with tasers in play.

Written by

Chad Margulius