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Lohan robs a fur coat from a party and the Yankees Suck Killer. “News” doesn’t get much better than that. Sorry I couldn’t get a bigger image (thanks though Mac).

Basically, Lohan stole a $10k fur from another chick at 1Oak:

A Columbia co-ed wants to know how Lindsay Lohan ended up wearing her $11,000 blond mink coat - and is demanding the “Mean Girl” pay for the impromptu rental. Masha Markova, 22, believed she had forever lost the prized jacket - a gift from her grandmother - while attending a private birthday party at 1Oak in the Meatpacking District in the early-morning.

I’ve never met any 21-year-olds who steal coats from parties, you?

Yesterday I wrote about the Yankees fan, Ivonne Hernandez, who ran over a Sox fan in Nashua, NH, after a “Yankees Suck” chant literally drove her crazy. A few people emailed to ask whether I felt guilty about the murder (I was a part of one of the first crews to sell “Yankees Suck” t-shirts at Fenway Park). “How does it feel to fan the flames of death?” someone asked. Of course, it did make me think. But back in 99, when I started making those shirts, the rivalry was different, much tamer, and the fans along the Eastern Seaboard were too. It’s a fact that fans today are more violent (last May one Yankees-Sox weeknight game saw 20-plus fights in the upper section alone!).

I can name three factors which helped turn Sox-Yanks fans towards further violence.

First is baseball itself.The Sox-Yanks teams and games have been so good for so long that it became impossible to stay apolitical.

Second: The Sopranos-Departed factors. Every asshole who goes to a game thinks he’s a character out of the mafia or Southie. Honor, pride, respect—all have become fan cliches. Hollywood posturing leads to so many “you fahking cunt faggot” vs “whatchu gonna do about it” fights.

Finally, America got wayyy fatter, especially sports fans. This leads to less sex and more anger and thus more violence. So, good games plus regional gangster pop culture plus fat people equals more Sox-Yanks street beef.

New England and the Metro area can thank these two fictions for an increase in street fights between Sox and Yankees fans.