"That way he could've been praised for keeping his cool and the fan would've had his season tickets taken away."
Yadda ... yadda .. yadda ... there's not a Yankee-fan, Red Sox-fan, sportscaster, the Commissioner's Office, or anyone with half a brain that thinks that Sheffield did anything wrong in Boston. How come Sheffield didn't get suspended, fined, or even reprimanded, Skippy?
"Now I know being in New York, the proper thing to do would have been to turn around and slug the fan right back."
Wasn't the South-Side of Chicago the place where two drunk degenerates ran from the stands & pummelled an umpire for no reason? I never saw anything like that happen in Yankee Stadium .. or Shea for that matter.
And gee, the Yankees have won 26 Championships, the Mets have won 2, the Giants & Jets have won 3 Super Bowls combined, and the Rangers won the Stanley Cup 11 years ago - but yet, there's never any riots, street fires, violence, looting, or any of the other crap that goes on in NY like when Chicago, Detroit, L.A., etc. wins a Championship.
I'd venture to guess that NY has the most civil sports fans in the country.