GIF: Yankees Fan Is Here for Our Amusement

To point is one thing; to laugh, another. Sometimes, however, there are occasions that call for the combination of the two, such that one finds oneself both pointing and laughing.

While I, an avid drinker of the milk of human kindness, hardly condone such behavior, a number of respondents to our call for GIF-worthy footage are not so reserved in their capacity for finding joy in the weakness of others.

Said respondents pointed the author to the above footage, of a gentleman — a gentleman “tanked” to the “gills” — falling out of the stands while attempting to retrieve a foul ball at the Red Sox’ jetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida during a Sunday afternoon game.

Making the sequence more amusing — for Red Sox fans, a least — is likely the fact that said tanked gentleman is, like many devotees of late Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, a Yankees fan.

To wit: