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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Oh really? I didn’t know that there were brawls in baseball. Sure there are, but they are very occasional, not part of the game and it is rare that someone gets hurt, whereas in hockey fights break out all the time as to seem part of the game, and damage is often done. Football is nothing but fighting incorporated into plays as one linesman tries to beat the crap out of the opposing lineman and defensive tackles strive to bring down the man with the football even if severe injuries result (you could ask Joe Thiesman).

Baseball, with the exception of the occasional bang-bang play at the plate, is devoted to expressing skills, as outlined to you in a previous post, which you ignored.

Admit it, you really don’t have an argument but you keep at it.

That’s all I’ll be posting.


93 posted on 07/14/2013 8:11:07 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum
I didn’t know that there were brawls in baseball...

Oh really? You need to get out more.

A bench-clearing brawl, sometimes known as a basebrawl or a rhubarb, is a form of ritualistic fighting that occurs in baseball, where all players on both teams leave their dugouts, bullpens, or benches and charge the playing area in order to fight one another...

Basebrawls are usually the result of escalating infractions, often stemming from a player being hit by a pitch, or an altercation between a baserunner and infielder stemming from excessive contact in an attempted tag out (such as a runner crashing into the catcher at home plate in an attempt to dislodge the ball). They are also known to occur when a batter charges the mound.

Depending on the severity of the unsportsmanlike conduct, an umpire may or may not eject a brawl's participants. Since a bench-clearing brawl by definition involves everyone on both teams, it is exceedingly unlikely that all participants will be ejected, but the player or players responsible for the precipitating event are often universally ejected.

Damn murderers.

Admit it, you really don’t have an argument but you keep at it.

OK. Thanks.

If as many people paid attention to the ultimate "sport" of politics as they do to this child's game, we wouldn't be in the gawdawful mess we are in today.

94 posted on 07/14/2013 8:24:21 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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