This "event" is being beat to death and involves a lone individual who already regrets his actions and emotions. With the 1000+ people that were in attendance and the 4-letter unprintable diatribe that your Granite Bay coach delivered to this parent as he had to be restrained along with the bat that he wielded, you choose to exaggerate the actions of the PARENT?! It's painfully obvious that you favor Granite Bay sports over Rocklin so we apologize if your feelings are hurt at yet another loss but sir, a few corrections need to be made... He didn't run along "the full width of the dugout and student section" although admittedly he was in the general area. He never got to the student section (there isn't one in the first place) and few actually saw anything occurring so he never stole any spotlight. Few in the crowd really noticed him, and both sides were asking what had happened that caused your coach to become so foul-mouthed and enraged. To complete your description, you might mention the organized and synchronized obscenity shouted by your Granite Bay fans in response to an umpire call, or the likewise idiot parent with the air horn that fired it off in the midst of our pitcher throwing, or perhaps the fact that the CIF Director had to stand in front of your entire fan section and admonish them for the poor behavior they were displaying as the game began. If you're going to try Ambush Journalism, get the facts right!

As a Rocklin resident I was there last night and watched the entire game. First I have no relation to anyone on the Rocklin's team. I have to respond to your post because I feel it was really one sided and incorrect. When I arrived ontime to the game and only a few minutes into the game Granite bay had already started their unsportsmanlike chants and was asked by a director to kindly stop but through out the game the granite bay fans continued chanting not positive cheers for their own team, but chanting the names of our players. This was unacceptable in my opinion. When the game ended I witnessed what happed also with that Rocklin father. He entered the field( like many others did) clapping and filming all of the excitement going on, he was just walking around filming everything on the field. No one was aware of anything but the celebration on the field until Granite Bay’s coach threw a fit. It was Granite Bays display of unsportsmanlike behavior that was noticed by ALL. I DO NOT know the Rocklin father and from what I witnessed he did not do anything that would be considered taunting. The Granite bay coach behaved absurdly and appeared to be a sore loser. My 2 cents.

dubious, first off, ambush journalism is not what you seem to think it is. ambush journalism is when bill o'reilly (or whomever) sends a camera crew to your home or office and films you as you head to your car, no matter what you try to do to get away. the crew may even get in your face in a way that is designed to provoke an intemperate reaction. you didn't know that the crew was coming, and you don't have any real way to escape without coming across as churlish, so you've been ambushed. you have not been ambushed if a journalist covers a public event where journalists are known to be in attendance.

dubious and perkipink, if a rocklin parent is on the field, where he's not supposed to be, and is filming the losing dugout, close enough that he can hear the coach over the roar of the crowd, that's taunting. the parent may be the world's nicest guy and regret his actions sincerely. he may not have gone the whole width of the dugout, to split the hairs that dubious wants to split. he may not have been seen by the whole crowd. but he was taunting.

i wasn't there, so i have no personal information on what led up to this incident. would anyone other than a rocklin parent care to offer some observations?

Okay, here you go. Read the blog posted by the Bee here:

http://blogs.sacbee.com/preps/archives/2010/05/rocklin-wins-d-.html

If you just read the blog, you will see another opinion from a non-parent who was there. Avoid the whiney comments that come after and form your own opinion once again.

This isn't about your political beliefs. Perhaps you can refer me to the legal definition of Ambush Journalism? When a biased writer literally attacks someone thru journalistic means, that's an ambush by any definition. The parent in questions has a history, but for Kurt to stretch this so far is ridiculous. Why two bloggers choose to do this is inexplicable since even the GB parents were somewhat mystified. One of our parents spoke with the reporter who wrote the Bee piece and the writer was absolutely determined to get this to press as soon as he could. The piece was written and published within an hour or two of the end of the game, before even the game results were published. As to whether or not the parent was allowed on the field, consider this: The game had ended, the gates were open and there were over 200 parents, friends, families allowed out there. With that many people milling about, it would have been extremely difficult for this parent to have been the spotlight and even had he been, the raucous student body from GB would have gone crazy and likely a major melt-down would have occured. Bottom line here is the facts just do not line up with the words written - "Unfortunately, one Rocklin parent decided that, despite his not having thrown a pitch or swung a bat or fielded a ball, this was all about HIM. He stole the spotlight from the team he supported as he raced onto the infield to taunt the Granite Bay team and its crowd" Raced? Spotlight? Hardly!

Believe what you want, but with the exception of 30 seconds from one Dad this was a great event with a lot of emotion on both sides and for the media to suddenly decide to spin it in a way that just DID NOT HAPPEN, it's a shame... Both teams deserve better than that!

how many on Rocklins side noticed him or not isn't the point. Like the guy in the candy isle who pulls down his pants, because everyone in the store didn't see him dosesn't mean he didnt do it.He made sure everyone on the Granite Bay side side saw him. Like a pedifile, just because you didnt see it dosent mean that children weren"t defiled. He defiled every child and adult in that stadium. Sometimes people don"t see things because they go thru life with blimders, I wish my grandparents didnt see that man or my little cousins.

What hasn't been mentioned, is the fact that he was holding his cap in an obviousway, so as to give the MIDDLE FINGER to the g.b. side! Did my 80 yr old grandpa and grandma, Deserve to be flipped off? Did my mom and dad? Did I and my little cousins, the little children in the stands, should they get the finger because that guy has a son who plays high school baseball??? My guess is, he is giving the finger to the world and he has big issues!

Dear SweetKay24, Did your 80 yr old Grandpa and Grandma deserve to sit on the Granite Bay side where they were chanting B*** S*** after a call, I am positive you must have run them right home at that point. Or maybe it was when the Granite Bay side was derisively chanting the Rocklin players names at the plate? Did you cover their ears when the GB fans chanted and mocked the Rocklin 2nd baseman when he made an error? Did your grandparents learn new ways to string profanities together from Coach E as I have over the last 4 years?

Don't play sweet and innocent while you are calling a good man that had a bad moment a pedophile. Don't pretend to have concern for others as you say that someone was defiled by a man waving a hat and jogging down the line. That is wrong and a gross overstatement. I don't see any Rocklin fan saying he should have behaved that way. Rather I am seeing a group of people on both sides trying to convince themselves they aren't as bad as the other side and they are willing to hold that other side up for ridicule to make their point.

I don't believe either side is without blame or fault. We can both clean up our acts. I get as upset as anyone else and I am sure there are a few people that could envision me doing something similar. I won't sit in judgement but I do hope we all can learn this lesson without putting our fingers in the fire to see if it is hot.

BTW, learn to spell and punctuate somewhat decently. I hope it wasn't GB …

i'm going to try to avoid getting sidetracked by dubious' willful ignorance about what an ambush is (and isn't) and the red herring about politics. i won't even do anything more than note the humor in sfl_rocks' lecture about spelling and punctuation--in a post full of punctuation errors and at least one spelling error. i'll focus on the main issue:

both independent observers of the game say the rocklin parent behaved despicably.

these observers don't say anything negative about the gb behavior. one, in fact, compliments the gb side for creating a real playoff atmosphere. he interviewed the official who was supposedly upset and quotes him as saying the interaction with the gb parents and students 'felt great.' these observers find no justification for the rocklin parent and don't find any gb indiscretions to be in, well, the same ballpark.

are these two (competing) journalists conspiring against rocklin? are the journalists just stupid? are they both biased? is it just some weird cosmic coincidence that they both found the parent's behavior to be the worst sportsmanship they'd seen in many a moon?

or are the rocklin parents the ones guilty of bias, as they try to justify a stupid action or at least minimize its importance? are the parents failing to take the kind of stance that will keep other parents, in rocklin and maybe elsewhere, from doing something similarly stupid in the future?

i know how i vote.

paulbc - Yes,.the punctuation and spelling is a running joke because no one cares on the blogs. My only pet peeve is all caps when typing.

I did happen to be at the game, my wife videotaped the dog pile from the stands. I just watched that tape.

I will state that the video does NOT match what is described in this article. I will also say that there is a Roseville/Granite Bay bias in this article as in many articles by this author. It usually does not bother me as it is usually opinion but this article, in my opinion, misstates the facts as they occurred.

The entire Rocklin team has run onto the field after the final out and dogpiled, Granite Bay is off the field and about 15 seconds after the final out then the fan emerges. He did not race onto the field in a taunting manner. He jogs about 1/2 up the Granite Bay side . He is filming the crowd, first Rocklin then Granite Bay, from the field. He turns the camera to the dog pile and then here comes Esposito with a bat in hand. To be fair, Esposito is gripping the barrel and not the handle. The fan turns back to the crowd after filming the dogpile for a few seconds, he has his Rocklin hat raised, and films them some more as they are now yelling at him. He sees Esposito coming at him and begins to back away, Esposito follows while yelling at the fan and at Rocklins coach. Esposito is rather threatening to the fan and to Rocklins coach.

There was no race to taunt, he was filming fan reaction, then the dogpile and then the opposing crowd again. He did not film the losing team or the losing coaches. Coach E, instead of ignoring it or finding a CIF official, decides to take matters into his own hands but NO ONE has called him out on his actions or expected him to be the adult in control.

If you want to look at reasons why the situation was inflamed, just go back to last year and the complete meltdown by coaches and players alike. Kurt complimented Coach E on pleading for his player to stay in the game while many that could hear the language were shocked even those that know what language can be used in a dugout. Or go to the last regular season game last year and the meltdown, twice, by the coaches. I even had to back Granite Bay fans away from the gate to the Rocklin dugout during Coach E's meltdown. And that is just the over the top stuff. Yes, I believe Coach E believes in what he is arguing but his behavior is not good to put it mildly although we do understand that it gains him no favor with the officials and we accept that as a bonus. Then go to this year where he laughingly says they have figured out Rocklin because they beat them for the first time in something like 14 games. He is not all bad but he has his bad moments, as that fan did, and his moments are Pinella-esque, but no one calls him out aound here for the example he has set on those occasions.

ECCLESIIASTES 4;13 better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished!

My Grandpa would say ,"HE who's student"s section(not sure where yours was?) bench, and coaching staff, that is without sin, let him cast the first stone."

It's not about that. But i don't think you really care. Especially since after all this, you still say, it's something YOU would do. even a kid can learn by watching. GROSS!!!

Don"t worry about us,

WE ARE GOOD! (IN CAP"S!)

I did not say I would do it sweetkay24. I said I get caught up and others probably think I would do something like that. I also have proof in that my sons have 3 section baseball rings and 1 section football ring and I have never acted or said anything even similar to that. I also said I don't sit in judgement of what happened, IMO he was wrong but the article and especially YOUR comments mis-characterized what occurred Monday night. My point was also that both sides had some guilt and are looking to say the other side is more guilty than there own side.

There is enough blame for both sides as the Granite Bay coach made things worse by taking matters into his own hands instead of letting the CIF deal with it. Two days later and no one has yet to say that two wrongs don't make a right and that the coach was wrong, which he was.

By the way, where is your scripture saying that it is divine to portray an over-zealous fan as something as despicable as a pedophile? IF thats not the first stone it is certainly one of the biggest stones that has been thrown in this discussion. And yes, I do believe a child can learn by watching, are they watching your unjust comments?

sfl_rocks, how about if you post the video on youtube and then provide the link, so we can see for ourselves?

I probably will, I have already copied it from the camera to my computer, it is just waiting for an upload. I don't want to offend anyone especially now that apologies have been done. Kudos to the involved parties.

Probably not a good idea. The camera won't have captured anything that came before or any actions by the parent, whatever they might have been. It may sound silly but, remember Rodney King? Nothing good will come of posting that video. I'd say its probably time to let it go.

Four years ago at A.R. during the championshipseveral G.B. studente had to be removed from the Ricklin side by CIF officials where they were harassing players and fans. Two years later a G.B.player was ejected from the game for language directed towards an official. Coach E. had not 1 but 2 total meltdowns and should have been ejected. This year CIF officiatl had to control the situation in the G.B. stands and when a Rocklon student shoyted "SUCK IT Granit Bay" he was promptly escorted out of the stands by Rocklins principal and athletic director. You do not see that from ANY other high school in this area. Verbal abuse from students is common from Bear River to Woodcreek, Granite Bay is as rude as any of them. If you cant beat them, just sit back and run your mouth. G.B. won league but Ricklin gets the big win AGAIN! And they do it with more class than any other school in the area

So people got excited at a championship game, as expected. Then a PARENT comes on the field? Why? Was he a coach? A medic? A reporter or photographer (with credentials)? Assuming the answer is NO to all of the above, he has no business on the field! Emotions run high with coaches and players who have invested their blood, sweat and tears in to something. But when you throw in a parent that believes that they share the risk/reward of the participants, you are asking for trouble. Parents, grand parents, fans and fellow students all need to keep their a$$es in the stands where they belong. It's no more acceptable for a parent to run on the field than it is for Ron Artest to run in to the stands. Stand at the gate and wait to congratulate your son or daughter on their accomplishments like everyone else, that is all that you have earned. Let the kids earn and learn the life lessons that sports teach without you living through them....it's THEIR field.