Brawls!

are there any yankees that are having "all-star seasons" other than rivera?

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/rrereport04.html

A-Rod, Sheffield and Posada are all in the AL top 15 in Equivalent Average. Even as a Yankee hater, I can acknowledge they're legit All-Stars. A-Rod falls short only by his previous Olympian standards, and unlike hstencil, I don't think he's overpaid by a cent.

But John seriously why you want to get ALL CAPS on me?

"I've seen a lot of brawls," former Angel Bobby Grich told he Los Angeles Times, "but never during batting practice."

So what happened? The night before, Laird accused Kennedy of leaning into a pitch, hoping to get hit with the bases loaded to force in a run. He told him as much during that at-bat.

Kennedy sought to revisit the issue the next day . . . and one thing led to another. It started when Kennedy glared at his accuser.

"Do you have a problem?" Laird asked.

"Don't be trying to show me up," Kennedy said.

And then the two became entangled. Rangers outfielder Brian Jordan, the former Cardinal, jumped in and applied a headlock on Kennedy as the two teams converged.

Kendall v. Kennedy, 8/15/04

I can't get these to display this morning.

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2006/05/20/h4JAfVgE.jpg

We know from the brawl chart in BB Between the Numbers they don't "fire up" win totals of crappy teams, too.

This is a great picture, but the fan reactions are a reminder of my unfulfilled dream to be in attendance at a true bench-clearing brawl.

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/images/admin/aj_mot3.jpg

http://www.popstrology.com/temp/aj_sularz.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/low_e495a4dad7ca4e4.jpg

MLBN had some (25th anniv) clips of this '84 Pads-Braves tilt the other day, pretty amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo2shxvmIHs

haha nice

Ed Whitson, Shirtless Insane Pitcher

uh, where was the brawl? there was hardly any sound so unless they were saying funny mean things about one another's mothers...

oh, I'm sorry that's only Part 1! It gets "better." The megabrawling starts around 6:40 of Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bookinnc#play/uploads/0/XmUM59Jv1DM

http://www.youtube.com/user/bookinnc#play/uploads/2/ELd29SF9RXo

http://www.youtube.com/user/bookinnc#play/uploads/1/zJ1iXW6YMGQ

oh i should have clicked through, cool

lol the one ump looks like he ate a couple fans during the brawl

The huge ump who hits the turf is John McSherry, who died on the field of a heart attack on Opening Day 1996 in Cincinnati.

What doesn't that brawl have? Bat wielding, fan trying to swipe helmet, fans in cuffs, multiple Tim Flannery eruptions, etc.

"...it's an automatic $50 fine for Whitsman..."

those were the days.

that was awesome. wish i could have heard any of it tho

maybe not... I think that's future Yankee blowhard John Sterling in the Braves' booth.

I know the '84 Padres were filled with crazed John Birchers, I think Flannery was one of them.

From the SI vault:

Umpire-in-chief John McSherry, who ejected 13 players altogether and cleared both dugouts after the ninth-inning fracas, said afterward that this game was "the worst thing I've seen in my life" and that it had "set baseball back 50 years." Williams, who is 55, hasn't been in the game that long, but he's definitely a baseball man of the old school. "We had some honor to defend," he said at a press conference Friday. "Perez is a headhunter. There's no question we went after him. I'm responsible for it. I'll accept the penalty, but I think it's pretty steep." Perez, who had hit only two batters in his previous 135 innings, denied he had been throwing at Wiggins, but was fined $300.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1122454/index.htm

Lefferts is a pussy.

The guy who tries to steal the batter's helmet right at the end looks like Sean Astin

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/Picture1-13.png

I know the '84 Padres were filled with crazed John Birchers, I think Flannery was one of them.

I don't think Flannery was one, but I could be wrong. Eric Show was the ringleader.

The guy who tries to steal the batter's helmet right at the end looks like Sean Astin

― caek, Thursday, August 6, 2009 4:53 PM

i lol'd

p.s.

http://www.newscloud.com/image_files/story_31432.jpg

http://gothamist.com/images/2003_10_zimmer.jpg

never forget

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/blog_article/10000-days-since-the-billy-martin-ed-whitson-fight/

(and happy 80th birthday to Bill White)

(whoops, 79th)

http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Site=C4&Date=20130612&Category=SPORTS&ArtNo=306120115&Ref=PH&Item=1&Maxw=640&Maxh=410

The Cleveland Indians' Sandy Alomar Jr. charges the mound and leaps at Detroit Tigers pitcher John Doherty after Alomar was hit by a pitch during their game at Tigers Stadium on June 8, 1992.

From what I've read--I was only three at the time--the only baseball brawl that seemed to be connected to the news of the day outside the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJq3AI_Vs0U

This was about a week after the Watts Riot.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/roseboro_zpsf1644253.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIHNsf8O_A

17 years ago #armando

the 14 heroes of Sunday's brawl

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=29203

never too late in the year for some beanball games, or to get a reliever injured

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/09/26/video-benches-empty-after-yankees-blue-jays-trade-beanballs-at-the-rogers-centre/

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/09/joaquin-benoit-leaves-park-on-crutches.html

If the Cleveland-Detroit series continues the way it started (and the way their previous series went), there could be a player-involved on-field delay of some sort before it's over.