Bench-Clearing Brawl Between Yanks and Rays
March 12, 2008 by Jodie Lynn Boduch
Filed under Baseball, Sports Rumors
The New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays let the games begin today in true feisty fashion: Hockey’s little cousin, the baseball brawl.
Unless our Blog Foddah Radar is slightly out of tune and needs recalibration, this marks the first bench clearing brawl of the pre-season.
The teams made it all of two innings before tempers flared. (Sort of. A homeplate crash that injured a Bronx Bombers would-be catcher set the tone between these teams several days ago.)
In the first inning, Yankees pitcher Heath Phillips got yanked—pun intended—for beaning Rays prospect Evan Longoria, who is an actual male and not a post-sex change Eva Longoria or anything. When Shelley Duncan of the Yankees slid spikes up into Rays second baseman Akinori Iwamura, all h-e-double-hockey-sticks broke loose.
And baseball fans everywhere rejoiced.
Doesn’t sound hopeful for the season, does it? Could it be to much testosterone around the bases?
Heath? Evan? Shelley? What’s the worst that could happen in that fight…somebody’d break a nail or spill their cappuccino?
Moggy–If this is a sign of things to come, then it’s going to be a wild season indeed. Testosterone–does this mean too many steroid injections or not enough?
Mark–Tell me about it. Next thing you know they’ll be running the bases in heels (Christian Louboutins, of course).