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Twice a year, members of the New York media play members of the Boston media in baseball. This is surely amusing to watch — fat guys fielding grounders is always a reliable source of comedy — but yesterday, at Fenway Park, there was a truly beautiful happening: They almost had a bench-clearing brawl. (Via Barstool Sports.)
Then, believe it or not, we nearly had a brawl with the Boston media. New York reliever Bob Klapisch accidentally hit Boston Spanish radio broadcaster Uri Berenguer in the helmet with a pitch. Berenguer took Kevin Youkilis-like exception to the pitch and tempers flared on both sides. Boston manager Carl Beane, the Fenway Park PA announcer, had to be held back from attacking a few of our guys. Beane manages the game wearing an entire Red Sox uniform. I kid you not.
I will say this about the New York media, we don't back down when the benches clear. We were more riled up than the Yankees were on Friday night. I wish I were kidding, but I'm not. We were a few seconds away from a full-out scrap.
Lord, what we'd give for YouTube of this. It's not every day you see someone charging the mound while eating a donut.
New York Media Loses To Boston [The LoHud Yankees Blog]
(UPDATE: Here's a bunch of pictures from the game, including this one of the Boston "manager" being restrained.)
Comments
Can we give them all loaded guns next time?
Sissy boy slap flights rule!
full out scrap?
NEEEEEEEEEEERDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDS.
Kramer: I punched Mickey Mantle in the mouth.
Jerry: What?
Kramer: Well, you know, we were playing a game and, you know, I was pitching,and I was really throwing some smoke. And Joe Pepitone, he was up, and man that guy, you know, he was crowding the plate.
Jerry: Wow! Joe Pepitone!
Kramer: Yeah, well, Joe Pepitone or not, I own the inside of that plate. So I throw one, you know, inside, you know, a little chin music, put him right on his pants. Cause I gotta intimidate when I'm on the mound. Well the next pitch, he's right back in the same place. So, I had to plunk him.
Jerry: You plunked him!
Kramer: Oh yeah!! Well, he throws down his bat, he comes racing up to the mound. Next thing, both benches are cleared, you know? A brouhaha breaks out between the guys in the camp, you know, and the old Yankee players, and as I'm trying to get Moose Skowron off of one of my teammates, you know, somebody pulls me from behind, you know, and I turned around and I popped him. I looked down, and woah man, it's Mickey. I punched his lights out.
Will, do you play for the St. Louis media team, or are you part of the extreme New Media baseball league?
Uri Berenguer was great as Jake Taylor in Major League.
Wait, different guy?
Sorry that I must have to finish my book, because new posts keep going up every two minutes. (And that I am not mainstream enough to be invited to these events. At least I don't eat doughnuts.)
- W. Leitch
This is not the face of someone you want to see coming at you in a bench-clearing brawl.
Latin media members are much easier to control than African American media members.
New York reliever Bob Klapisch accidentally hit Boston Spanish radio broadcaster Uri Berenguer in the helmet
Did it send him through his own announcer's table?
Now we know what the first image is in the Getty Images search for "nerd fight" and knowing is half the battle.
@Rob Iracane:
Ay dios mio! Es el chupacabra!
@Sir Hotbod Handsomeface:
Poor Tito Santana. All he wants is to finish one damn event with a table in front of him.
I remember hitting the shoulder of a guy at Reader's Digest with a pitch last year, and his subsequent stare down as he walked down to first.
'Don't fuck with a guy whose magazine was designed to fit in a purse' was my lesson that day.
@Sir Hotbod Handsomeface: Hugo Savinovich isn't afraid to bring the chin music.
Uri Berenguer
That's an interesting name for a Spanish broadcaster. I live in Tucson and I haven't met too many Mexican "Uri"s.
@The Man with No Name:
Uri Geller wasn't Mexican?
Did someone punch Lupica? Because that's really all I've ever wanted.
@Sandy Magic Jackson: You should have submitted that story to Reader's Digest for their Life in These United States column.
@BigTenObsession: There is always someone on here who can find the one exception to my comments.
I love it.
@Big Daddy Drew: You can have you Lupica if I can get Bob Ryan kneecapped.
Those look like people who would bring laptops to bars.
@Da_Mang: *your
@DisgruntledGoat:
Better not bring them to Denny's, though.
@Big Daddy Drew:
Lupica wouldn't be there, because that would require him participating in a sporting event.
Did Joe Morgan show up wearing a #2 Yankees uniform?
Lamba Lamba Lamba really needs to show more unity than this
@BigTenObsession: Crap. How did I confuse Denny's with a bar?
@Da_Mang: Bob Ryan could hurt his knee while ramming it into Lupica's head.
@DisgruntledGoat: Weekend Daddy can hear you.
Where's Ned?
I want a donut.
@DisgruntledGoat: that's what I did on Saturday night. Wings, pale ale, Pistons/Cavs and my laptop.
Jackie McMullen wanted to make it but she couldn't find her jock strap.
Gooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllll!!!!!
Any bets on how long it takes for ESPN to start showing this event, complete with 25 minutes of analysis on Baseball Tonight? It's Boston, it's New York, it's baseball. You can't say that doesn't give Norby a stiffie.
@Lady Andrea: Well of course no Lady... could be a nerd (at least not in the "I get beat up" sense). Last time I botch a Ricky Manning joke.
Is it dorky to bring your labtop to a bar? I need confirmation on this.
@Oops Pow Surprise: I can't wait for a league to be formed so the Jemele Hill vs Skip Bayless rivalry can be lived out on the field
@DisgruntledGoat: True story: in Chattanooga, there used to be a Denny's with a full service bar. It's still there, but not a Denny's anymore.
Clemens was scheduled to start for New York, but he had fatigued 'gina
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus:
It would be more fun if they played against all of the ousted ESPN employees - Whitlock, Reynolds, etc.
Vernon Wells stopped by and gave them all signed baseballs.
"Dear Mr. Dork..."
What I would give to bean that scum bag Dan Shaughnessy (sp?)
Oh, I'm a nerd. But I don't get beat up for it. And thank you! I couldn't remember his name. I made a joke in a thread Saturday night about keeping my eye out for an NFL player who might want to beat me up.
@BigTenObsession: Anything that brings us closer to a televised fatal heart attack for Whitlock is A-OK by me.
Cripple Fight!!!
@Oops Pow Surprise: I call dibs on Bayless! He is going down! I will introduce his teeth to a curb.
@Len Bias Cocaine Surplus: I've got $20 on Patches.
So why didn't they fight?
We were a few seconds away from a full-out scrap. But then somebody announced the buffet was open.
@The Man with No Name: Good luck, he'll just curl up into an assball if you so much as take two steps toward him.
Has there ever been such a gathering of douchebaggery on the field at Fenway before?
@Da_Mang: Every Red Sox game?
@Da_Mang: I'm going to go out on a limb and say... Every time the Red Sox and Yankees play there.
@Da_Mang: I'm missing the picture of scene with them near the mound, but it's kind of better that way.
@Oops Pow Surprise: If you take your laptop to a baseball game, you deserve to be hit in the face with a foul ball.
Hey, where was Shaughnessy throughout all this?