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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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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I said I would not be answering but when you misquote me, well, that’s another story.

You wrote, quoting me as saying, “I didn’t know that there were brawls in baseball” and you said, “Oh really? You need to get out more.”

Look again. I wrote that “Oh really? I didn’t know that there were brawls in baseball but they are not part of the game, are very occasional...” In other words, you clearly lifted my words to indicate something I did not say.

By the way, you know that these “brawls” almost never result in anyone getting seriously injured. And I contrast that with the hockey fights when sticks are used and with the non-stop violence that goes on on the football field.


96 posted on 07/14/2013 8:47:59 PM PDT by OldPossum
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