Today, I’d like to share my two cents about what happened Thursday night at Fenway Park, when the Yankees and the Red Sox renewed their bitter rivalry.

There was a ball hit to right field that rolled all the way to the fence. Yankees right fielder Gary Sheffield chased the ball into the corner, where he was hit in the nose by a fan trying to grab the ball.

Now, Sheffield would have you believe that this Boston fan blatantly tried to hurt him. In my view, that isn’t what happened. The guy in the stands was doing the same thing everyone else along the fence in right field was doing — trying to grab the ball.

If this guy was actually trying to hit Sheffield, don’t you think he would have taken a little better shot at him than that? Hopefully he wasn’t trying to hit Sheffield. If so, that little slap he gave Sheffield was weaker than Clay Aiken in an arm-wrestling match.

Sheffield was upset after the game, but, come on, give the guy a break.

Let’s say this guy actually grabbed the ball. What is he going to do? Probably get arrested, go home and sell it on eBay. If anyone should understand making some extra cash it should be the sellout Gary Sheffield and his sellout teammates. Yes, if you’re calling me a bitter Atlanta Braves fan right now, you’re right on the money.

The announcers kept talking about how Sheffield’s swing at the guy was instinct. And a fan going for a ball isn’t? I’m not saying it’s right to interfere with a game, but who doesn’t want a ball from a Yankees-Red Sox game?

I love how the fan didn’t back down when Sheffield came back at him. That took some serious marbles on the part of the fan, because Sheffield was probably going through some good, old-fashioned Major League Baseball ‘roid rage anyway. You know darn well if Sheffield would have done anything else to the fan, about 50 insane Beantowners would swarm him like pit bulls on a poodle.

What really drove me crazy about Thursday night was how the “Baseball Tonight” crew kept talking about how great of a job the security guard did.

Come on fellas.

Yeah, he was fast on the scene, but Harold Reynolds put this guy on a pedestal like he is Ghandi. If ESPN wouldn’t have talked about his greatness for 80 percent of “SportsCenter,” I wouldn’t have thought twice about him. All he did was make a fine jump onto the fence, which I won’t take away from him, but he stood there with fear in his eyes when Sheffield came running back to the fan.

Fans who interfere in sporting events are common at this point in time. Personally, I like it. It’s entertaining to watch these idiots. I have a pretty good idea brewing in my noggin, actually. How about we make a rule in which the fans can interfere in games but the athletes can beat the crap out of them if they do? If they are stupid enough to pick a fight with the finest athletes in the world, then hey, let’s watch the massacre.