((HT: WTNH-TV))
A lawsuit has been filed against former major leaguer Jose Offerman. It all stems from a baseball brawl and one of the victims claims that Offerman ended his career with a swing of the bat.
The victim is former Bridgeport Bluefish catcher John Nathans. The minor league player filed a major lawsuit seeking $4.8 million in damages from Offerman and the Long Island Ducks. Back in August of 2007, Offerman rushed the pitcher's mound with a bat in his hand after he was pelted by a wild pitch. It was bench-clearing brawl and when it was all said and done, the pitcher had a broken finger and Nathans was struck in the back of the head with the bat.
Nathans says he was trying to protect his teammate from the bat attack, but wound up with career-ending injuries.
"I left the field on a stretcher, a stretcher that was my last game. I wasn't able to walk away from the game on my own terms. I left on someone else's terms. Someone forced me to leave the game," Nathans said.
Offerman was criminally charged in the case and was granted probation, ordered to anger management and to pay the medical bills of both the players he hit. Offerman now lives in the Dominican Republic. It's unclear what his reaction to this $4.8 million civil suit is.
Those of us at OSG HQ think that ever since Offerman went Juan Marichal in the Atlantic League, he's fairly content to see if anyone here on the mainland will get one damn peso out of his bank account.
Two words: Roman Polanski
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