Blue Jays fans send Texas restaurant death threats over Odor promotion

A Texas barbecue restaurant that thanked Rougned Odor for his punch to Jose Bautista by offering him free food for life drew the ire of angry Toronto Blue Jays fans.

After hearing of Heim Barbecue's promotion - which also included T-shirts for fans to purchase - Blue Jays supporters began to leave owner Travis Heim death threats on his voicemail.

"Well, we did make a funny shirt, so it's understandable that people would want to 'murder my whole family' in response," Heim said Monday, according to the Dallas Observer's Beth Rankin. "I guess this is just the cost of going 'viral.' I understand people are assholes, especially on social media, but the death threats and saying they are going to come to Texas and murder my whole family?"

Along with the threats, Heim revealed Facebook users based in Canada began to give his Forth Worth restaurant overwhelmingly negative reviews on the social media site, despite his establishment still lacking a physical location.

"I think we're up to six fake one-star reviews on Facebook now, all by people who live in Canada," Heim said. "But the worst was a guy who said him and his wife got food poisoning and were sick for weeks, urging people not to come to our place."

Odor was suspended eight games for the incident, while Bautista received a one-game ban. Both are appealing the decisions.