<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Rockies fan was yelling ‘Dinger’ at mascot and not a racial slur at Lewis Brinson');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Rockies-Coors-Field-Lewis-Brinson.jpeg"></figure><h1>Rockies fan was yelling ‘Dinger’ at mascot and not a racial slur at Lewis Brinson</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-08-09T08:52:27-07:00">August 9th, 8:52am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-08-09T08:52:27-07:00">August 9th, 8:52am</time><address><a>Mitchell Widmeier</a>Mitch is a play-by-play broadcaster and writer in Minneapolis who enjoys every aspect of sports, whether it's announcing, writing, or watching. He started his career as Sports Director of a two-cluster station in Minnesota where he had his own sports talk show. He has since branched out into all aspects of sports media.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rockies-news-colorado-investigating-fan-yelling-racial-slur-at-marlins-lewis-brinson/">The Colorado Rockies launched an investigation</a> into a fan that appeared to have yelled a racial slur at Miami Marlins outfielder Lewis Brinson.</p><p>Reactions poured in as everyone demanded the fan be identified. Now, it turns out the fan was yelling at the Rockies mascot, Dinger and not at Brinson.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW: The Rockies tell me last night’s incident was a fan shouting to get the attention of the Rockies mascot Dinger, not a racial slur. The Rockies have spoken to the fan who confirms this is the case. They’ve also reviewed video from the local broadcast. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">#9News</a></p><p>— Steve Staeger (@SteveStaeger) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveStaeger/status/1424751806400323586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">August 9, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>It’s quite the turn from the initial report and the video that surfaced that seemed to indicate and show a racial slur being yelled at Brinson during his at bat in the top of the 9th inning at Coors Field on Sunday. Thankfully, it wasn’t the case.</p><p>It seemed bizarre that a fan would yell that and nobody in the crowd would identify or call out the fan. It turns out, it’s because he was yelling at the Rockies mascot the whole time.</p><p>Fan interactions turning real bad have for some reason become more common in the last couple months. Back in July, a fan at a Red Sox – Yankees game fired a ball back at Boston outfielder Alex Verdugo that struck him. Verdugo had flipped the ball up into the stands as a souvenir before having it launched back at him.</p><p>In the NBA playoffs this past summer popcorn was dumped on then Wizards guard Russell Westbrook, a fan spit towards Hawks guard Trae Young, <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31523231/utah-jazz-ban-three-fans-verbal-altercation-game-2-vs-grizzlies">a few Jazz fans yelled slurs at Ja Morant’s family</a> and beer was thrown at Knicks guard Immanuel Quickley.</p><p>Finding out that the Rockies fan was yelling at the mascot and not hurling racial slurs was a great conclusion to what initially looked like a horrific happening.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Rockies fan was yelling ‘Dinger’ at mascot and not a racial slur at Lewis Brinson

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Rockies investigating fan yelling racial slur at Marlins’ Lewis Brinson');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Rockies-Marlins-Lewis-Brinson-Coors-Field.jpeg"></figure><h1>Rockies investigating fan yelling racial slur at Marlins’ Lewis Brinson</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-08-09T05:38:01-07:00">August 9th, 5:38am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-08-09T05:38:01-07:00">August 9th, 5:38am</time><address><a>Mitchell Widmeier</a>Mitch is a play-by-play broadcaster and writer in Minneapolis who enjoys every aspect of sports, whether it's announcing, writing, or watching. He started his career as Sports Director of a two-cluster station in Minnesota where he had his own sports talk show. He has since branched out into all aspects of sports media.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>In the 9th inning of Sunday’s game between the Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins a fan at Coors Field was heard yelling a racial slur multiple times at Lewis Brinson. Somehow, even with the fan clearly screaming it, they were not identified. The Rockies released a statement after the game.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">A statement from the Colorado Rockies regarding the racial slur incident at the end of today's game: <a href="https://t.co/85uN3f1pFZ" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/85uN3f1pFZ</a></p><p>— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rockies/status/1424544646420520960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">August 9, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Reaction poured in from everywhere for the Marlins’ outfielder after what happened against the Rockies.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Just saw the video of the fan in Denver yelling a slur to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Marlins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">#Marlins</a> OF Lewis Brinson.<br>I’m not sharing it, you can find it yourself.<br>It’s disgusting, sad and I don’t know how that a hole wasn’t punched in the mouth.</p><p>— Robert Flores (@RoFlo) <a href="https://twitter.com/RoFlo/status/1424526406910939138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">August 9, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sorry you had to deal with a coward <a href="https://twitter.com/LewisBrinson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">@LewisBrinson</a> hold that head high as I know you will. Sucks when we always have to be the good guys!!</p><p>— 10 (@SimplyAJ10) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimplyAJ10/status/1424548811884560386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">August 9, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I proudly stand WITH Lewis Brinson, who is one of the kindest, hardest working, genuine people you’ll ever have the pleasure to meet. I firmly stand AGAINST hatred, intolerance, ignorance, and the disgusting behavior that was exhibited earlier today. We have a long way to go. 💔</p><p>— Jessica Blaylock (@JessBlaylock) <a href="https://twitter.com/JessBlaylock/status/1424524113671041030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">August 9, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>While the Rockies are investigating, let’s hope someone steps forward in helping to identify the guilty party. The scene itself looked bizarre as it as clearly heard on the television broadcast yet everyone seemed to carry on as though nothing had happened or is if they hadn’t heard it.</p><p><a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31840494/fan-hit-alex-verdugo-baseball-yankee-stadium-banned-all-mlb-parks">Just last month in July at a Yankees – Red Sox game in the Bronx, a New York fan was banned from all baseball stadiums</a> for the rest of his life after throwing a ball that struck Boston outfielder Alex Verdugo. Verdugo had tossed the ball into the stands for a fan to keep as a souvenir. Unfortunately, the person who caught the ball thought it would be a good idea to fire it back at Verdugo when he turned his back to the crowd and back towards the field. The same action should be carried out by the Rockies and Coors Field and MLB once this subject is identified.</p><p>A tip of the cap to Lewis Brinson of the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins">Marlins</a> for handling this the way he did when nobody would’ve blamed him had he reacted with anger.</p><p> </p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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