Brawls!

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.

does this count as disrespecting the troops y/n

wasn't especially dumber than our last 70 years of wars

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19493326/dear-bryce-harper-my-dude-were-thinking

http://b.fssta.com/uploads/2017/05/052917-mlb-nats-harper-hair-pi.vadapt.767.high.0.jpg

still from the smells like teen spirit video

ha!

In black and white, the Harper brawl photos wouldn't be out of place among the grunge-era shots by Charles Peterson pic.twitter.com/0XsVQcgUsM

— Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) May 30, 2017

@jay_jaffe "Punch Me I'm Strick"

— Andy Kellman (@andykellman) May 30, 2017

why does Bryce have an umbrella in his back pocket?

http://www.sbnation.com/2017/5/30/15714678/bryce-harper-hunter-strickland-brawl-pictures-photos

I've arm sided my helmet in the tunnel many a time. Gotta chuck it by the ear flap, not the bill. More velo, more accuracy.

— Michael Young (@MikeyY626) May 30, 2017

why does Bryce have an umbrella in his back pocket?

http://www.sbnation.com/2017/5/30/15714678/bryce-harper-hunter-strickland-brawl-pictures-photos

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:29 AM (five hours ago)

batting gloves

so this is doing the rounds in los angeles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1ntYXOfMg

Is that an Australian accent on one of the cops there? Sounds non American anyway.
Think I heard something about cops getting foreign transfers a few years ago, but I think it might have been brits to Australia.
Better pay and working conditions or something.