Fan Tossed By Ump At Phillies Game: 'I Said Nothing Offensive'

PHILADELPHIA (AP/CBS) — Hey leather lung, yer out!

An unruly fan attending Tuesday night's game between the San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies was escorted from his seat in the sixth inning shortly after a verbal confrontation with an umpire.

Plate ump Bob Davidson stopped the game, walked toward where the fan was sitting and had words with him after the man was yelling loudly in Davidson's direction. The fan was sitting 15 rows from the field behind the visitors' dugout.

Davidson said the fan heckled him for two straight batters, but he halted the game with the next hitter up when Davidson felt the fan made a sexual reference and used foul language.

"You could have your wife, girlfriend, kids; they buy tickets," Davidson told a pool reporter. "They don't have to come here and listen to that."

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Shortly after the spat, a Phillies usher approached the fan, who quieted down. A short time later, another Phillies employee approached the man and escorted him out of his seat.

A Phillies spokesperson said during the game that Davidson complained to team security about the fan's language and, when approached, the fan agreed to leave on his own.

However, the fan -- a man named Jeremy -- told Angelo Cataldi the 94WIP Morning Show that he used no obscenities.

Listen: Jeremy on the 94WIP Morning Show

"Honestly, I said nothing offensive," Jeremy said on Wednesday morning. "I think I heard more offensive stuff coming from Trump's speeches at his debate.

"Honestly, when [Davidson] came over I didn't think he was looking at me. And then when the guards came down then I kinda figured out, hey man he is looking at me. So, I just, I left. I was just saying they suck. Whoever was coming up to bat I said, 'Hey man you suck!' And the one guy had a bad haircut and I said I knew a good barber on 69th street his name is [inaudible]. 'Go get your haircut.'"

Cataldi agreed with Jeremy.

"Last time I looked this is America," Cataldi said. "You weren't using obscenities. You can just get thrown out of a game if they don't like you yelling? Is that -- that's where we are now in sports? Jeremy, that's garbage. I don't buy that."

Davidson, though, said afterward he asked to have the fan ejected.

"I didn't know why security just doesn't do that on their own," Davidson said. "There were kids there and young girls there."

Davidson said his actions drew applause from fans — something he rarely hears in Philadelphia.

"And people cheered me, which is unusual in this town for me," he said.

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