Fans Get 5-Year Ban After Exchange with Cubs Catcher Willson Contreras

You do the crime, you better believe you’re going to serve some time.

Two Washington National fans were banned from Nationals Park for five years this week after they were involved in a heated verbal exchange with Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras earlier in the week, according to the Chicago Tribune. In the top of the 10th inning of the Cubs’ 7-5 win over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday, Contreras was walking back to the dugout after hitting a sacrifice fly when he started screaming at a fan.

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After driving in the go-ahead run on a sac fly in the 10th, #Cubs catcher-of-the-future Willson Contreras gets into a pretty heated argument with a quickly ejected fan at Nationals Park.@Cubs #GoCubsGo @Nationals pic.twitter.com/ApbhIkmiCy

— Billy Krumb (@ClubhouseCancer) August 17, 2022

The fan in a Nationals jersey was quickly ejected from the stadium following the verbal confrontation with the Cubs catcher.

Contreras said the fan was speaking Spanish to him and that it “got under my skin,” but he declined to reveal what was said specifically.

“If somebody tried to mess up my family, they’re going to [have to go through] me first,” Contreras said, via the Chicago Tribune. “Whatever they said, it wasn’t healthy. It was not right … We’re speaking the same language. I know what he means.”

Fans at all levels seem tp be spiraling out of control. Attending a sporting event does not give a person the right to do or say whatever the person wants. There seems to be a whole bunch of people who have no idea how to behave in public, or just don’t care.

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