{"id":12753,"date":"2024-10-30T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2024-10-30T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:06:03","slug":"rob-gronkowski-made-wild-claim-about-yankees-fan-who-grabbed-mookie-betts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12753","title":{"rendered":"Rob Gronkowski Made Wild Claim About Yankees Fan Who Grabbed Mookie Betts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_039anv266\">An interesting new detail has popped up in the viral story about the New York Yankees fan who\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ejected-after-actually-trying-pry-fly-ball-out-mookie-betts-glove\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ejected-after-actually-trying-pry-fly-ball-out-mookie-betts-glove\">forcibly ripped the ball<\/a>\u00a0out of Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts\u2019s glove in Game 4 of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_x99zsmxch\">Rob Gronkowski joined the\u00a0<em>Up &amp; Adams Show<\/em>\u00a0to discuss his thoughts on Tuesday night\u2019s Yankees-Dodgers game, and he claimed he personally knew the fan and was friends with him back in college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_yiwr7sk06\">Gronkowski, who played football for two seasons at the University of Arizona before being drafted by the New England Patriots, said the fan,\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ridiculous-reason-for-taking-ball-from-mookie-betts-glove\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees-fan-ridiculous-reason-for-taking-ball-from-mookie-betts-glove\">Austin Capobianco<\/a>, was actually on the Wildcats\u2019 ice hockey team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8gnvyqj48\">\u201cHere\u2019s a little fun fact: That guy right there grabbing Mookie Betts\u2019 glove was my friend in college,\u201d Gronkowski said. \u201cHe was on the ice hockey team, and let me tell you, the whole hockey team, they were absolute maniacs\u2026 Him doing that represents him very well. He is all in for his teams, he is all in for the Yankees, I remember him talking about the Yankees all the time, how he loves them so much. And that describes him perfectly, just doing whatever it takes to help his team out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_962hz898n\">Gronkowski then congratulated Capobianco for taking advantage of his \u201cmoment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_962hz898n\">\u201cHe\u2019s a beauty,\u201d Gronkowski continued. \u201cI just wanna say congratulations for shining when your moment came.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OF COURSE Gronk was college friends with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yankees?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yankees<\/a> fan who interfered with Mookie Betts glove last night \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udd0a<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a beauty. I just wanna say congratulations for SHINING when your moment came.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobGronkowski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RobGronkowski<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heykayadams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@heykayadams<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yankees?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Yankees<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dqRPpI1job\">pic.twitter.com\/dqRPpI1job<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Up &amp; Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UpAndAdamsShow\/status\/1851657572128059855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Patriots tight end made sure to clarify that he didn\u2019t condone the fan\u2019s behavior and called the moment \u201cunacceptable in the world of sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_3pzuv8mr0\">Capobianco and his friend were swiftly ejected after trying to pry the ball out of Betts\u2019s glove in the first inning of Game 4, in which the Yankees went on to win 11-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_5tp6lqt3a\">The league is\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JesseRogersESPN\/status\/1851662719176311041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JesseRogersESPN\/status\/1851662719176311041\" aria-label=\"reportedly - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\">reportedly<\/a>\u00a0asking the Yankees to ban both fans for Game 5 at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting new detail has popped up in the viral story about the New York Yankees fan who\u00a0forcibly ripped the ball\u00a0out of Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts\u2019s glove in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12755,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions\/12755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}