Man Sues ESPN After Being Filmed Sleeping At Ball Game Yes, we get it: baseball can be boring as hell. But if you pass out and start sawing logs in the stands, you have to expect that the cameras might pick you up. In 2014, Andrew Robert Rector took a little catnap during a Red Sox - Yankees game and had his visage broadcast over the airwaves. Most of us would just laugh this off, but Rector thought he had a big payday coming, so he sued ESPN for a sizable $10 million settlement in exchange for "emotional distress," claiming the sportscasters had called him "fatty" and "disgusting." This never actually happened -- instead, he was referring to YouTube commenters on the video. Good luck suing them, though.