Update below!
Threw up and in on Chris Snyder, provoking considerable discontent. Nothing went down, other than the exchange of choice pleasantries, but the benches cleared, which I always love. It's funny when they fight, but it's funnier when they don't do anything but stand there in groups looking around like sparrows in a parking lot.
Ryan Divish has the backstory, here:
In the first inning, Lee was covering home on Chris Young's RBI single. Snyder, who was on deck, ran to the back side of home to tell the runner Mark Reynolds to slide. Snyder laid on the ground telling Ryenolds to slide. Lee didn't see Snyder there and tripped over him. They both exchanged a few words. And Lee let Snyder know in the next at-bat that it wasn't ok.
It's interesting how the one guy on the staff who looks like he's smiling every time he throws a pitch might be the one guy on the staff with a mean streak. Of course, Cliff might want to be a little more selective when it comes to the messages he's sending, and the players to whom they're being sent.
Snyder keeps himself in excellent physical shape, thanks in part to an offseason workout program that includes Mixed Martial Arts training.
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Update: Well, if you believe Cliff Lee, there was no intent here at all, and it was just a coincidence that one pitch to Snyder went inside and the next flew by his brains. Of course, 99% of pitchers will never admit they were throwing at a guy, and 99% of these things aren't accidents, so who knows. Snyder clearly thinks it was intentional. On the one hand, Lee's got exceptional command, but on the other, he's still getting loose and hasn't quite been himself so far in March, so...intentional? Interesting. Unintentional? Awkwarrrd
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I'd love to watch an MLB fight
In the company of NHL players.
wandergeist - March 15, 2010
Have the M's had a "fight" since Sexson charged and giant-leg-to-the-sided Gabbard?
JonBBT - March 15, 2010
I wouldn't mess with Richie Sexson.
lmeyer40 - March 15, 2010
We should teach all our pitchers jiu-jitsu.
Then when they get charged they can just pull guard and throw up a triangle choke. Then tell the press they learned it from watching the fight scene at the end of Lethal Weapon.
Llewdor - March 15, 2010
I love this idea.
royalcurve - March 15, 2010
Aiiiiiiieeeehhhhh!!!
msb - March 15, 2010
Just what Belcher wanted.
JonBBT - March 15, 2010
I dunno
does MMA have a counter move for the 90mph beanball?
Bearskin Rugburn - March 15, 2010
MMA's counter to everything is the junk punch.
JAH - March 15, 2010
Ugh, no MMA in my baseball, thanks.
Jeff Nye - March 15, 2010
I support all of this.
Except that Sexson fight where he threw his batting helmet at the dude.
sanford_and_son - March 15, 2010
If things escalated any further, Ichiro would of had to cut a bitch.
russak - March 15, 2010
Snyder doesn't have the balls to fuck with Lee.
Goose - March 15, 2010
This game turned into a clusterfuck.
Wilder. - March 15, 2010
This just gets me all hot and bothered.
Needs more swearing.
section331 - March 15, 2010
I find it amusing that it took until the end of September for the M's first player to get kicked out last year.
But this year it happens in the middle of March. Amusingly, the day before Ichiro was ejected last year, this article ran on the Mariners’ website.
I was tickled pink by the fact that when the replay was shown from above, one could see that Ichiro’s line in the dirt was exactly where the pitch was.
Matt Erickson - March 15, 2010
that is classic
Ichiro should umpire himself. In the spirit of competition I think this could work.
Hancock.Brett - March 16, 2010
RE: "thanks in part to an offseason workout program that includes Mixed Martial Arts training."
I hate the term “mixed martial arts”. You study judo. You study kendo. You study karate. You don’t study jukente.
The Typical Idiot Fan - March 15, 2010
Isn't it way easier to say MMA training
than ‘he studied judo, boxing, karate, jiu jitsu, wrestling, etc’? Since everyone gets what’s being discussed anyway?
Bearskin Rugburn - March 15, 2010
If by "easier" you mean "lazy", sure.
Martial artists take pride in their form and art. Someone asks me if I study “karate” in a general sense and I will correct them (I study kenpo). The only reason the term “mixed martial arts” exists is because of the explosive popularity of the UFC. But the way they use it here makes it sound like people actually learn a mixture of martial arts. They don’t. The reason it’s called “mixed martial arts” is because you’ll have a Gracie-esque grappler fighting a Muay Thai boxer or a bar room brawling street fighter taking on a tae kwon do guy.
Now, I’m not saying people DON’T learn a variety of styles or pick and choose different things from different styles, but I dont’ know very many people who deliberately train them all at the same time.
The Typical Idiot Fan - March 16, 2010
My offseason workout program includes not getting in fights with tatted-up meatheads
lemonverbena - March 15, 2010
Was Snyder interfering with the play?
Isn’t there some kind of rule that says the guy on deck can’t get so close to the play that the pitcher covering home trips over him? Should the runner have been called out, or something?
Suburban Shocker - March 15, 2010
What I Thought of
http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/23999629.html
westbrook - March 15, 2010
I still can't believe Gomez was traded for JJ Hardy
fuck.
Bearskin Rugburn - March 15, 2010
What I thought of
Nolan Ryan making Robin Ventura his bitch. Whenever I watch that I’m always struck by how calm and confident Ryan is while waiting for Ventura to arrive at the mound. What’s hilarious is that you can now get a photo of the event signed by both of them at Walmart.
wandergeist - March 15, 2010
Eeeh
kinda stupid to pound on the top of a guys head, specially if its your throwing hand you’re using. Baseball fights are pretty lame.
Bearskin Rugburn - March 15, 2010
“Sometimes holding the possibility of hitting a batter is more effective until the time is right.” – Morgan Ensberg
circa81 - March 15, 2010
Wow
That is a seriously long brawl. It’s impressive how old Ryan was at the time too.
appleshampoo - March 15, 2010
And now he's running the Rangers
And wants to do to the AL West what he did to Ventura
wandergeist - March 15, 2010
Still have no idea what Ventura was doing there.
He practically put himself in a headlock.
JonBBT - March 15, 2010
I believe Ventura has said HE has no idea what he was doing out there.
msb - March 16, 2010
True.
But while he may have been questioning what he was doing charging Nolan Ryan by the second stride, what the hell was he doing with his hands? He didn’t even attempt anything.
I like it when they come out swinging like crazy people.
JonBBT - March 17, 2010
Here's the Dimondback's SBN Nation blog on it:
http://www.azsnakepit.com/2010/3/15/1374567/diamondbacks-13-mariners-5
SeaKoala - March 16, 2010
Wouldn't the pitcher have the right-of-way backing up home-plate?
over a batter in the on-deck circle?
msb - March 16, 2010
Chris Snyder and Mark Reynolds can blow me.
Sec 108 - March 16, 2010
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