Oh my. This is a wild story to say the least. Two Milwaukee television anchors got into a fight at the Milwaukee Brewers-Chicago Cubs game over the weekend. The defendant, FOX 6’s A.J. Bayatpour is calling it a ‘disagreement between friends’ which is an interesting way to put something that ended up with your friend, WTMJ 4’s Ben Jordan, suffering a significant injury. The story went viral yesterday, and forgive us for posting it late as it’s juicy enough gossip that’s worth talking about. The real question that should be asked is what could have started this skirmish? Via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…

The incident was first reported by FTVLive, a website that follows the TV news industry. It cited a Milwaukee police report that said Bayatpour had been critical of his colleague Madeline Anderson, and her boyfriend, Ben Jordan, a reporter for WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), stepped up to defend her. During the ensuing argument, Bayatpour struck Jordan and caused “a significant injury,” the report said

This is crazy to me. First of all, this is a good lesson on why you should keep your drinking to a minimum around co-workers. I’ve not an angel when it comes to this lesson, but it’s very true. My guess is Bayatpour starting giving Madeline Anderson some shit about dating Jordan, who works at a rival news network. This led to a fight, and from what it sounds like Jordan suffered an injury. Once again, my speculation is he broke his nose or something to that effect. If you work in television where you have to show your face on a regular basis, an injury to the face would be significant.

I have zero idea how Bayatpour can have a job with FOX6. Maybe, he gets put on a long leave of absence, and they hope we forget about this sort of thing? I’m unsure, but the outcome is probably not good for him.

Charlie.