{"id":2546,"date":"2007-07-25T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T00:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/in_other_places_they_may_beat_up_a_parent_or_two_in_queens_we_bypass_all_that.html"},"modified":"2007-07-25T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T00:50:27","slug":"in_other_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/in_other_places.html","title":{"rendered":"In Other Places They May Beat Up A Parent Or Two; In Queens We Bypass All That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could call it criminal, but really, there&#8217;s no shame in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queensledger.com\/StoryDisplay.asp?PID=1&#038;NewsStoryID=6219\">simply defending your team<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Anthony Macchirole, a coach for the Midville Dodgers, is charged with assaulting a teenaged player on a team the Middle Village squad was competing against at Juniper Valley Park.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source close to the case against him, Macchirole had gotten involved in an altercation with teen Robert Inzerillo, an opposing team&#8217;s base runner, during a July 12th home game at Juniper Park at about 8:10PM.<\/p>\n<p>According the Queens District Attorney&#8217;s Office, Inzerillo apparently collided with Midville&#8217;s catcher on a play in which it appeared he was going to be tagged out. In retaliation, Macchirole threw him to the ground, causing him to injure his knee.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>. . . [A]nother coach for the Midville Dodgers, who asked not to be identified by name, claimed what happened at the July 12th game did not constitute any big deal. &#8220;There was a collision at home plate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There was no &#8216;incident.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could call it criminal, but really, there&#8217;s no shame in simply defending your team: Anthony Macchirole, a coach for the Midville Dodgers, is charged with assaulting a teenaged player on a team the Middle Village squad was competing against at Juniper Valley Park. According to a source close to the case against him, Macchirole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}