One of the Yankees fans who interfered with Mookie Betts during Game 4 of the World Series said he’s ready for his infamous moment to be behind him, saying in a new interview that he has received nasty texts and voicemails and even had feces shipped to his parents’ home.
In an interview with The Athletic, Austin Capobianco addressed the now-infamous moment and how his life has changed.
“All the stuff my family has had to deal with because of me,” Capobianco told the outlet. “The nonstop phone calls. The people sending me pictures of their ugly looking penises. The packages.”
Capobianco recalled how he got a phone call from his brother this winter, explaining that an unidentified package had arrived at their parents’ home in Connecticut with no name on it.
He revealed it had been “poop” from a company that specializes in anonymously sending that type of substance.
Other anonymous packages were also sent to the office where he and his four siblings work.
Since the Oct. 29 incident that has become part of baseball lore now, Capobianco said that he wished that the whole thing “never happened” and that “I want nothing to do with that memory.”
The whole ordeal earned Capobianco and friend John Hansen an indefinite ban from all ballparks across the league by Major League Baseball, The Post first reported in January.
As Betts went to play a foul ball down the line hit by Gleyber Torres, Capobianco attempted to rip the Dodgers’ outfielder’s glove off his hand — while Hansen held the outfielder’s wrist — and the ball eventually fell free.
The umpire quickly called Torres out due to fan interference, and the two were ejected.
Capobianco told the outlet that he’ had never’s not watched the clip of what happened at the game and regrets what happened.
“I’m a good dude who did a dumb thing on camera,” he said.
“I’m a hero in Yankees land. I’m a villain in America,” Capobianco added later. “I don’t really care. I just want to be forgotten about. That’s it. I want people to forget about me.”
While Betts tried to downplay things at the time, his true feelings seemed to come when addressing the incident months later.
“I would really say ‘F–k you guys,’” Betts said in late December. “I get them trying to get the ball. Cool. But you tried to grab my s–t. I was in the moment. So I thought about throwing a ball at them. And then I realized, ‘Mook, you ain’t gonna do s–t. Go back to right field.”
