Banned Yankees fan reveals disgusting contents of package sent to him after Mookie Betts World Series incident

New York Yankees instrumentality Austin Capobianco has faced a torrent of hatred messages successful the months since helium wrestled a foul shot from the mitt of Los Angeles Dodgers prima Mookie Betts successful the archetypal inning of Game 4 of the 2024 World Series. 

And not everything was communicated with words.

'It was poop,' Capobianco told The Athletic astir the suspicious bundle his parents received astatine their Connecticut home.

Not wanting to unfastened it, the household searched the instrumentality code lone to larn that it was sent from a institution that specializes is shipping excrement to unwitting recipients.

And that whitethorn not beryllium the worst of it. Others person sent disturbing photographs to Capobianco and his family.

'All the worldly my household has had to woody with due to the fact that of me,' said Capobianco, who admittedly regrets the incident. 'The nonstop telephone calls. The radical sending maine pictures of their disfigured looking penises. The packages.'

This has been Capobianco's beingness ever since the October 29 incident.

As Dodgers fans are speedy to recall, Betts leaped astatine the retaining partition successful foul territory and caught Gleyber Torres' popular alert successful the archetypal inning. But, lasting successful the archetypal enactment with a grey Yankees roadworthy jersey was Capobianco, who grabbed Betts' mitt with some hands and pulled the shot out. Another fan, John P. Hansen, grabbed Betts' bare hand.

The umpires ruled instrumentality interference, resulting successful an ounce for Torres and immoderate harsh words betwixt Capobianco and Betts.

'Mookie was swearing astatine us,' Austin's member Darren Capobianco said astatine the time, according to The Athletic.

'I would truly accidental 'F*** you guys,'' Betts said successful precocious December alongside Kevin Hart. 'I get them trying to get the ball. Cool. But you tried to drawback my s***. I was successful the moment. So I thought astir throwing a shot astatine them. And past I realized, 'Mook, you ain't gonna bash s***. Go backmost to close field.'

The blasted instantly fell connected the fans.

'I didn't cognize however atrocious it was,' Austin Capobianco said, 'but I knew it was bad.'

As a result, MLB issued a imperishable prohibition to Capobianco and Hansen successful January for interfering with Betts.

'On October 29, 2024, during Game 4 of the World Series astatine Yankee Stadium, you interfered with play by intentionally and forcefully grabbing a player,' work the league's missive to Capobianco and Hansen, which was first reported by the New York Post. 'Your behaviour posed a superior hazard to the wellness and information of the subordinate and went acold implicit the enactment of acceptable instrumentality behavior.'

'Based connected your conduct, Major League Baseball is banning you indefinitely from each MLB stadiums, offices, and different facilities,' the missive continued. 'You are besides hereby banned indefinitely from attending immoderate events sponsored by oregon associated with MLB. Please beryllium advised that if you are discovered astatine immoderate MLB spot oregon event, you volition beryllium removed from the premises and taxable to apprehension for trespass.'

MLB has antecedently issued league-wide bans for fans who trespass connected the tract oregon endanger shot personnel. A instrumentality who approached Atlanta Braves prima Ronald Acuña Jr. astatine Colorado's Coors Field successful 2023 received a akin ban.

Capobianco and Hansen were ejected from Game 4 and banned from Game 5 the pursuing night. The Yankees called the behaviour 'egregious and unacceptable.' The squad said successful January that the 2 fans MLB banned were not play summons holders.

Given that his play seats were adjacent to the action, Capobianco told reporters astatine the clip helium considered giving his squad a boost from his front-row perch.

'We ever gag astir the shot successful our area,' Capobianco told ESPN. 'We're not going to spell retired of our mode to attack. If it's successful our area, we're going to ''D'' up.

'Someone defends, idiosyncratic knocks the ball. We speech astir it. We're consenting to bash this.'

But helium backed disconnected that remark with The Athletic, though, saying helium the program was to simply sound the shot escaped – not to ever interaction a player.

The Yankees won 11-4 to stave disconnected elimination, but would driblet the pursuing crippled to suffer the bid to the Dodgers.

Rob Gronkowski, a assemblage person of Capobianco's astatine the University of Arizona, addressed the contented connected FanDuel TV.

'He is each successful for his teams, helium is each successful for the Yankees. I retrieve him talking astir the Yankees each the time, however helium loves them truthful much. That describes him perfectly, doing immoderate it takes to assistance his squad out. He is simply a beauty.'

Fans disagreed though, and Capobianco has since faced a regular watercourse of hateful messages.

'You're a f***ing idiot and a joke, fatass,' 1 idiosyncratic said, arsenic reported by The Athletic.