St. Paul Saints, Cats take fight from the (baseball) diamond to the bar

Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) ^ | 9/11/06 | Heron Marquez Estrada - Staff Reporter

[MplsSteve]

Two members of the Fort Worth Cats baseball team were arrested this morning after they and dozens of people got into a fight at a St. Paul bar, police reported.

About a dozen officers responded to the fight at the Half Time Rec as members of the Cats fought with members of the St. Paul Saints team.

The Cats beat the Saints 2-1 Sunday night to win the American Association league championship.

After the game, the two teams retired to the Half Time Rec, a popular bar in the 1000 block of Front Street, a short drive from Midway Stadium.

One of the Cats players was arrested after allegedly choking a St. Paul police officer who was attempting to break up the fight, said police spokesman Tom Walsh.

[MplsSteve]

One a day like today where we all think back to five years ago, well, I thought just a little bit of levity is in order.

Have any Freepers participated in a post-game brawl with members of the opposing team? Comments or opinions - anyone?

[hlmencken3]

The Half Time Rec is an Irish bar in a residential neighborhood. Any altercation there would attract a lot of immediate attention.

[toast]

Police said 20 to 30 people were throwing punches in the bar when officers arrived about 12:15 a.m.

Reminds me of the bar fights in those "Any Which Way..." movies.

[MplsSteve]

LOL! True!

[Billthedrill]

That's the way it used to be played in the Majors, too. Ty Cobb carried a gun - and used it. Makes today's Roid babies look like a bunch of wimps.

[x]

Good news for the Cats bitter rivals: the Dallas Mice.

[Horatio Gates]

Not exactly what I think of first when I hear about a cat fight 8>)

[blau993]

Can't say that I have done that, but this is my favorite (true) bar fight story.

My wife and I and another couple had gone to dinner at a nice Italian restaurant in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on a Saturday night. Up the street from the restaurant was a bar that looked and sounded a little on the rowdy side. As we left the restaurant, we saw two fire trucks and a police car come screeching up to the bar, sirens blaring.

A couple from the bar headed down the street in our direction, and I asked the guy what was going on. He mumbled, "Oh it was just some guy what grabbed the chest of some other guy's girlfriend and they got into an altercation." His girlfriend then added, "Yeah, it was just your usual Sheboygan Saturday night three-alarm grope."

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Ha! I probably played that bar in Sheboygan when I was with Methyl Ethyl and the Ketones!