Thursday, January 17, 2008
News Inferno: Yankee Fan Sues Over Major League Baseball Scandal
Matthew Mitchell (no relation to the Senator), a 30-year-old Brooklyn resident and paralegal, claims the Major League Baseball steroid scandal amounts to consumer fraud. Now, he is suing the New York Yankees to recover the costs of tickets to five games he attended between 2002 and 2007. They include Game 2 of the 2003 World Series, in which pitcher Andy Pettitte led the Yankees to a win, as well as another played on June 8, 2002, where Mitchell watched San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds hit one of the longest home runs he had ever seen in Yankee Stadium.
Because the outcomes of those games could have been influenced by the use of steroids and other banned substances, Mitchell believes the costs of tickets should be refunded by the Yankees.
I’m preparing a lawsuit to get my money back for any games that Felix Heredia (The Run Fairy™ ), Juan Acevedo, and Wayne Franklin pitched.
Comments
So wait, he’s a fan… but wants money back from games the Yankees won?!?!? I can’t remember the precedent case, but the Yankees could have put out clowns racing on horses instead of a promised baseball game and still refuse to refund people.
Man I can’t wait for the season to start so we have real stuff to talk about.
This sort of thing pisses me off when a NORMAL person does it. But when a legal professional does it?
Much more annoying.
Some paralegals know the law better than the attorneys they work for. Not this one.
Howbout dem Cowboys?
This guy would have to show that the Yankees promised the game wouldn’t be influenced by PEDs, and that the Yanks knew PEDs were involved. The Mitchell report wasn’t around back then, so it wouldn’t be relevant. Plus, there is no way to show that somebody using PED’s actually affected those particular games and caused damage to this paralegal guy. That makes his claim sound a lot more stupid.
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