Josh Beckett Assaults Band

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http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/11/josh-beckett-arrested-stage-attack/

Ex-MLB star Josh Beckett was arrested after allegedly going full NFL linebacker on a country band ... completely laying out the singer and causing injuries, TMZ Sports has learned.

We're told the 37-year-old -- who won World Series MVP with the Marlins in 2003 -- was at an open mic night at a country club in Texas with some friends when he jumped on to the stage mid-performance and tackled the singer.
 

RG33

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I thought he started a band called "Josh Beckett Assaults Band".

Well, now he should.
 

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It's really weird to think about the two pitchers involved in Game 5 of the 2007 ALCS— the pinnacle of Beckett's time as a Red Sox— and realize that the obese losing pitcher is still relevant ten years later, whereas the Josh is spending his days charging the mound at Bob's Country Bunker.
 

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His lawyer says he was stage diving and his foot was caught, so he hit the singer. Doesn't sound realistic judging from the photo.
 

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I feel fully confident in blaming 2011 entirely on him.
On this day of the year it is important we never forget the horror and carnage that was Carl Crawford.

(read this in either David McCullough's or Peter Coyote's voice)

Then at the 11th hour, of the 25th day, of the 8th month it ended. Those tired, red eyed men, stared at their screens, unbelieving having soulless resigned them selves that it would not could not end, freedom would not come, that the sun would not shine on them again, but they checked, it was true. He was gone. The casualties could never be justified, Francona, Beckett, decorated, victorious heroes tainted by his dead eyed, defeatist, ineptitude, the faithful Punto who selflessly, if ineffectually, marched into the fire, no questions asked. Certainly the men, for years to come, would start from their sleep, sleep cold with screaming "How do you forget how to field? I mean you still run fast how the fuck did you not catch that?" For many, victory over those demons may never come. When they rhapsodize about Ted, Yaz, Rice, Greenwell, Manny, and young Benitendi they can not, as some revisionists may attempt wipe that time from the record. They must admit, that yes part of their history, that dark time did happen, should never be forgotten but by the providence of God was thankfully so short
 

Snodgrass'Muff

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His lawyer says he was stage diving and his foot was caught, so he hit the singer. Doesn't sound realistic judging from the photo.
Stage diving is jumping OFF the stage, not into it. I mean, Beckett has always been a bit of a moron, but come on. You have to be able to come up with a better excuse than this...
 

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He was debating SAR (Songs Above Replacement) while factoring "Odd-Season Beckett" when things got out of hand.
 

Ed Hillel

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That guy’s band mates seem super happy about all this, probably like all of Rand Paul’s other neighbors.
 

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There is a rumor out that one of Beckett's friends bet him $75000 to tackle the singer. Has anyone seen a video of the incident?
 

CoffeeNerdness

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There is a rumor out that one of Beckett's friends bet him $75000 to tackle the singer. Has anyone seen a video of the incident?
So his buddy is withholding the video for a roughly $75k payday? Seems awfully fishy that a perfect Quantum Leap-esque freeze frame of the incident exists, but not the video itself (unless I'm missing it).
 

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Looking forward to Josh’s cameo during the reenactment on season two of “Brockmire.”
 

Mueller's Twin Grannies

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Maybe they were terrible and he was trying to jump on the grenade for everybody. It is a country music act, so the potential for suckage is very, very high.