The Red Sox beat up the Yankees on Saturday. Then they beat the Yankees on the scoreboard--with a Bill Mueller walk-off home run. Arturo Gatti delivered a vicsious liver-shot to Leonard Dorin. The Italian Montrealian sent the Romanian Montrealian to the canvass--to stay--in less than two rounds. Gatti is a legend who still plies his trade. That makes him a living legend. There is no one in sports I would pay more money to see than Gatti. Lance Armstrong is poised to win a sixth straight Tour de France on Sunday. We send Lance to France just to suggest that if we sent tanks, it would be a helluva lot worse. And Ricky Williams, one of the best running backs ever to step onto the field, says that he is retiring after only five years in the NFL. The Patriots fan in me celebrates. The football fan in me mourns.
Baseball fights. Gotta love em’! They should give them all purses to hit each other with.
Football season can’t come quick enough.
Ricky will be back.
Long live Lance.
Well, baseball fights are a lot like hockey fights: the guys stand around and take shots at one another, and try to take one another down, and as soon as they go down, the refs (in this case umps) break it up.
I wonder how, of course, the Red Sox pitchers can continue to bean the Yankees players and be given only warnings, but I guess it is like Kareem (Abdul Jabbar) once said about being the "big man" on the court: the refs are willing to give your opponents more leeway in terms of fouls and elbows, because you are so much bigger than they are. The Yankees are Kareem in this case, and the Red Sox the percieved "little guy" (for those of you Sox fans who might be a bit slow).
By the way, I thought Affleck looked like a girly-man on TV Sunday, although John Kerry seemed uber-hip sporting the Nike "wear yellow" wristband which is making the rounds after the Tour de France.
"Uber-hip," what a miserable thing to be. Kerry high fiving the BoSox players as they headed back to the dugout really cracked me up.
“baseball fights are a lot like hockey fights: the guys stand around and take shots at one another, and try to take one another down, and as soon as they go down, the refs (in this case umps) break it up”.??
The big difference is that in hockey fights, the antagonists actually strike each other. Hard and often.
Absolutely NO comparison between baseball players and hockey players.
One sport has a group of athletes that are a bunch of whining wussies. The other sport has probably the toughest group of athletes of any sport.
Nolan Ryan beating up, who was it Robin Ventura?, that was a great baseball fight.
