Fan shown sleeping on broadcast suing Yankees, ESPN

A man who fell asleep during a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in April is suing the New York Yankees, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, ESPN and the station's announcers for defamation.

Andrew Robert Rector is demanding $10 million in damages after the station broadcast him sleeping in his seat, calling him "fatty, unintelligent, [and] stupid," according to Courthouse News Service.

Rector claims ESPN announcers Dan Shulman and John Kruk made the calls at the April 13 game between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox when the cameras were focused on him.

From the suit:

Announcers like Dan Shulman and John Kruck unleashed avalanche of disparaging words against the person of and concerning the plaintiff. These words, include but not limited to 'stupor, fatty, unintelligent, stupid' knowing and intending the same to be heard and listened to by millions of people all over the world ...

The defendant Major league Baseball continually repeated these vituperative utterances against the plaintiff on the major league baseball web site the next day. These words and its insinuations presented the plaintiff as symbol of anything but failure.

The defendant MLB.Com continued the onslaught to a point of comparing the plaintiff to someone of a confused state of mind, disgusted disgruntled and unintelligent and probably intellectually bankrupt individual.