Yankees-Red Sox argument ends in murder

[TJ Phaserman 2]

BOSTON (Reuters) - A New York Yankees' fan was accused on Monday of murdering a Boston Red Sox supporter and injuring another by running both down with a car after a heated argument over one of America's oldest sporting rivalries.

 

Ivonne Hernandez, 43, pleaded not guilty on Monday to reckless second-degree murder, aggravated driving while intoxicated and two counts of reckless conduct after the incident in a Nashua, New Hampshire parking lot last Friday.

 

Prosecutors say Hernandez was drunk when she drove her car across a dirt parking lot outside the Nashua City Hall into Matthew Beaudoin, 29, and Maria Hughes, 21, after exchanging words with them about the Yankees and Red Sox baseball teams.

 

The spat began at a local bar where Hernandez said she was a Yankees fan, according to witnesses quoted by the Nashua Telegraph newspaper.

 

It then spilled outside where a group that included Beaudoin chanted "Yankees suck!" when they saw a Yankees sticker on the rear window of Hernandez's car, New Hampshire's Assistant Attorney General, Susan Morrell, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

 

She told Nashua District Court that Hernandez drove directly at the group and did not brake, hitting Beaudoin.

 

"The forensic evidence at the scene indicates tire tracks going about 200 feet (61 meters) that did not swerve or brake," Morrell said. "He went onto the windshield and then when the car hit the parking meter he was ejected," she added.

 

Beaudoin died of massive head trauma, she added.

 

Hernandez told police she had only wanted to scare the group. She was ordered held without bail.

 

Hughes suffered minor injuries.

 

The Red Sox and the New York Yankees have long been one of sport's most colourful and fiercest rivalries.

 

While Boston won the World Series championship five times in its first two decades, including the 1903 inaugural series, they endured an 86-year dry spell before winning their sixth Series in 2004 and seventh in 2007.

 

The Yankees, however, have racked up 26 wins over the Series' history, including streaks of three, four and five-in-a-row championships.

 

now it couldn't really be how you pronounce chowder is it? lol

[Kor37 9]

Some people take these sports rivalries way too seriously......... <_<

[trekz 7]

Anyone that thinks they can go into a bar in Boston, say they're a Yankees fan and go out and get into a vehicle with a Yankees sticker on the window and not get into an argument is either stupid or looking for a fight imo

[Theunicornhunter 2]

Anyone that thinks they can go into a bar in Boston, say they're a Yankees fan and go out and get into a vehicle with a Yankees sticker on the window and not get into an argument is either stupid or looking for a fight imo

 

Are you saying all Bostonians are Neanderthals - or worse. Besides murder is a little more than just getting in an argument.

 

You know how I hate to disagree with you but I'm not not a sports fan so imo getting in a fight over a sports team is so utterly assinine - it gives all sports fans a bad name. When I first started working at my current job there were a couple of Gator fans that I thought had some reality disconnects - fortunately they're gone. Seriously, feeling ill will for another human being because they support a different team. Again, how can I say how immature and worthless people like that are.

 

I'm so sick of hearing Gator/Seminole and I think people have been killed over that rivalry as well. Maybe we should ban college and professional sports if that is what it reduces people to (and no I'm not serious)

 

This idiot should be locked up for a very long time.

Edited May 7, 2008 by TheUnicornHunter