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okay, here is my whole take on this fighting thing...
first off, fighting in any sport for any reason is stupid and childish. these players are getting paid millions of dollars to play a little kids game. go out there and fucking enjoy it. look at players like miguel cabrera (20 yrs old) and jose reyes (20 yrs old). every time they get a hit, their face is BEAMING! they are so happy. the other day miguel cabrera got a hit and drove in a run. he started looking around at the crowd... so happy because they were cheering for him. i just think thats the way baseball should be played.
now onto this yankee-red sox fight. now, because we are in NY, i know i am going to get very biased point of views from you guys and the news. but this is what *I* saw. and, no... its not what you think.
obviously, what kicked it off was pedro throwing behind karim garcia. okay. now we all know pedro to well. and if he MEANT to hit some one, it would not have been Karim Garcia. he's not even a yankee in my eyes. okay... next they both, garcia and pedro, exchange words. blah blah blah, he goes to 1st. it should be DONE right there. and then.. whatever clemens wanted to do, he would've done. so we come to the play that was only shown ONCE on tv. ground ball to short. nomar tosses it over to todd walker and walker throw it over to 1st. karim garcia took out todd walker HARD. Ty Cobb-like if you will. there is NO place for that in baseball these days. you can end someones career doing that. so then garcia starts up with todd walker (and the reason behind this is what???). so garcia walks back towards the dugout and him and pedro go at it. both benches warned, blah blah blah. and i dont know where tim mccarver got pedro saying 'i'll hit you in the head' but i wasnt there so i will assume he didnt say that. it is no FACT that he did indeed say that.
next inning, clemens threw a ball that was high and inside, but actually too high and not inside enough to hit manny. but manny, the hot head that he is, starts up. fight fight fight. now the infamous pedro-zim incident. neither one was innocent in this. zim was obviously doing something off camera. so pedro, i guess, was kinda instigating by saying 'what?' (or so thats what it looked like). so then zim, who under normal circumstances wouldn't do something like this but who was hot from before, charged at pedro. and pedro, who under normal circumstances wouldn't do something like this but who was hot from before, grabbed him and threw him to the ground. now... i'm not agreeing with what pedro did, but when a man as large as zim charges at you... you NEED to do something. pedro could have blocked him, but it was in the heat of the moment. also, when someone is charging at you, they have momentum. thus, even a side step and a shove would've resulted in zim falling to the ground.
all in all, i do not agree with ANYTHING that happened. i think both teams were very childish in their actions. there is no place in baseball for anything like that. just plain stupid.
on a side note: yes the red sox lost. and yes, the yankees will probably win this series. thus, WS = Cubs v. Yankees. they need to start resting wood and Prior NOW! one last side note, even if the red sox do pull this off, i will now go for the cubs because that was childish behavior on the part of some of the red sox.
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*can't imagine it feelin' much better...
i wish it would just last forever.
and so, to feel like that?
i'd pay any price just to get that back.*
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