Should Major League Baseball enact tougher rules to stop unruly fans?
Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez has seen his share of crazy situations where fans run onto the field. A few years ago in Philadelphia, when Gonzalez was an assistant for the Braves, a fan jumped over his head from the top of the dugout, went onto the field and dropped to his knees, bowing to honor Ryan Howard before an at-bat. That incident ended peacefully, with security hauling the fan off and handing him to police before he was charged with a misdemeanor for criminal trespassing, along with a fine. One of the latest Phillies fans to act foolishly wasn’t treated so nicely. By now, the way 17-year old Steve Consalvi was halted for running across Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia has become a national story, when he was Tasered by a police officer. The Phillies have since decided using 50,000 volts to stop “trespassers” doesn’t look good and will employ their own security to do it the old fashioned way: bringing them down to the ground. But is the threat of being brought down by secu
