Send in the Clowns. Never Mind...

New York is wasted on New Yorkers in the same way youth is on the young. Forget Central Park, The Empire State Building, museums and plays galore; that’s for tourists. Real New Yorkers seem to want nothing so much as to sit in the outfield at Yankee Stadium and throw stuff at opposing players. It happened, again, Saturday, during the Yankee’s come-from-behind win against the Guardians. Rookie left fielder Steven Kwan hit the fence hard trying to catch a game-tying double by Isiah Kiner-Falefa. The Cleveland trainer went out to check Kwan for a concussion, and what did Yankees’ fans do? Well, one of them reportedly cheered, which led Myles Straw and Oscar Mercado to start yelling back at the fan. Straw actually climbed the fence the better to talk back. He must speak moron. Then, the Yankees pushed across the winning run, and that brought on what Straw termed a “beer parade,” though he probably meant “shower.” On the clip I saw, the outfield looked to be covered in all sorts of garbage with a suds’ chaser. Aaron Judge even went out to try and keep the peace. Wasted effort, that. My understanding is that the umpires’ crew chief has the authority to call a forfeit. If that had happened Saturday, no doubt there would have been a clown riot in the stands. It may be time for the commissioner to give himself the power of a delayed forfeit; he could call it the “goon rule.” Everyone would know what it stood for.