A 26-year-old man who
fell asleep during a New York Yankees game is suing ESPN and two of its
announcers for airing his nap on the live telecast.
Andrew
Rector claims he has suffered emotional distress due to an 'unending
verbal crusade' against him during the broadcast, in which the camera
panned to his second-row seat in the lower level of Yankee Stadium in
the Bronx and showed him snoozing, according to The Smoking Gun.
Major
League Baseball has been named as a defendant in the complaint after
the clip was uploaded to the MLB website as part of a highlights packed,
allegedly causing a flurry of insulting comments.
ESPN announcer Dan Shulman is accused
of referring to the New Yorker as 'oblivious', while the second
commentator, John Kruk, is accused of saying a ballpark is 'not the
place you come to sleep'.
Schulman
also questioned whether Rector had slept through a third inning home
run by Yankee Carlos Beltran, which causes a huge applause from the
crowd of 45,000.
Rector contends his distress comes from
being made out to be a 'fatty cow that needs to seats' and a 'confused
disgusted and socially bankrupt individual'.
The incident occurred during a game against the Boston Red Sox on April 13.
He also claims that the announcers used words like 'stupor', 'fatty', 'unintelligent', and 'stupid'.
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