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[Tecumsehsbones]

Man dies after fall from upper deck during Braves baseball game in Atlanta

By Associated Press

ATLANTA — A man who fell more than 60 feet from an upper-level platform at Atlanta’s Turner Field onto a parking lot during a baseball game died Monday night, police said.

Atlanta police spokesman John Chafee confirmed the death of the man, whose name has not been released. The man fell during Monday night’s game between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies.

“At this time there’s no indication of foul play and the fall appears accidental,” Chafee said late Monday. “It appears he fell from an upper-level platform to a secured lot below.”

Chafee said police received the report of the fall just before 9 p.m. Monday. When officers arrived, they located a man who appeared to have fallen 65 feet, or about six stories.

The man was transported to Atlanta Medical Center and died of his injuries.

Chafee said the fall occurred on the stadium’s back side. He said witnesses described the fall as accidental, but that police were not releasing other details of what they said.

He said he did not know if wet conditions or alcohol were factors.

Heavy rains had led to a nearly two-hour delay of the game, which was scheduled to start at 7:10 p.m.

A Braves spokeswoman declined comment earlier Monday night, referring calls to the Atlanta police.

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[Blackleaf]

That guy's an absolute nutcase and deserves everything he's got. Completely and utterly balmy. He needs to be locked up for his, and everyone else's, safety.

I mean, what on Earth possessed him to go and watch baseball in the first place?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

That guy's an absolute nutcase and deserves everything he's got. Completely and utterly balmy. He needs to be locked up for his, and everyone else's, safety.

I mean, what on Earth possessed him to go and watch baseball in the first place?

Roger that. Second-dullest game on the planet.

 

[Sal]

what's the first...golf?

 

[Blackleaf]

Roger that. Second-dullest game on the planet.

After American football.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

what's the first...golf?

Cricket. It's like baseball, only interminable.

 

[Blackleaf]

what's the first...golf?

American football.

There's three second of play when the ball is in the air and then it stops for another half an hour when the ball hits the floor. Every time the ball hits the floor play stops for ages. Queue another half hour of TV adverts for hemorrhoids cream.

It's like watching paint dry. Or, even worse, dying a slow death.

The best sports to watch are football, cricket, rugby league and rugby union, in descending order of greatness.

As for baseball, the English invented that game.

The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut that shows a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game—though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases.

David Block discovered that the first recorded game of "Bass-Ball" took place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey.

Then British immigrants took it to North America and then, for obvious reasons, the British stopped playing it. They realised how silly the game was and just stuck to its superior cousin, cricket.

A form of the game does still survice in Britain and Ireland today. It's called rounders and is popular with schoolgirls. So, basically, only schoolgirls in Britain and Ireland play baseball.