Rays and Yankees Brawl

[NonProfitCow]

Apparently, Longoria gets plunked in the 1st, Yankee pitcher gets tossed. Next inning Duncan tries to stretch a single into a double, is thrown out out by a mile and goes in spikes up. Gomez comes in from the outfield and swings and Duncan and the benches empty. Thank God baseball is back.

[javy knows my name]

Apparently, Longoria gets plunked in the 1st, Yankee pitcher gets tossed. Next inning Duncan tries to stretch a single into a double, is thrown out out by a mile and goes in spikes up. Gomez comes in from the outfield and swings and Duncan and the benches empty. Thank God baseball is back.

This is right, but for the wrong reasons.

[UK1679666180]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S5mrg_AUgE8

 

Looked fine to me.

[Roast]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S5mrg_AUgE8

 

Looked fine to me.

 

That doesnt show the fight :(

[Tyrant]

I have no idea why the Yankees are so pissed about that play. I don't understand what Crawford was supposed to do. Go around? Slide into him and maybe sprain his ankle? Stop running and get tagged out because it's the Yankees?

[UK1679666180]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S5mrg_AUgE8

 

Looked fine to me.

 

That doesnt show the fight :(

 

They don't even have the game on radio, you won't see any highlights of the brawl/HBP of Evan until tonight I assume.

[Yanksfan1523]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S5mrg_AUgE8

 

Looked fine to me.

 

That doesnt show the fight :(

 

That wasn't the fight that was the game before, when Cervelli got his wrist broken in the bottom of the 9th of a ST game. That is the play that annoyed Girardi and led to an apparent beaning.

 

And it wasn't Crawford that ran into him, it was a minor leaguer. Crawford ran over a twins catcher I believe.

[UK1679666180]

That was Elliot Johnson in the clip.

 

Crawford ran over Quintero of the Stros before that.

[shnsajax]

Personally I am glad to see the Rays bringing this new attitude. It is Spring Training, but its a lifetime of losing as well. They have a very good young team, and they need to know that they can compete against the 2 highest dollar teams in all of baseball. Tampa would be a very good team in the West, but in the East its going to be much more difficult to continue to get better than your oppenents every year.

[Geech]

Shelley Duncan spikes Akinori Iwamuri. He's stabbing a black man away from being OMC's new hero.

 

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080312/capt.bd939b50298b406996ff359960468caf.yankees_rays_spring_baseball_flgp103.jpg

 

Jonny Gomes plows into Duncan at 2b. He might be my new hero.

 

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080312/capt.6c9db0c8471d4bc897154c88802a057e.yankees_rays_spring_training_baseball_flgp102.jpg

[jersey cubs fan]

Personally I am glad to see the Rays bringing this new attitude.

 

Isn't this the same crap they've done with the Red Sox for years? I certainly wouldn't call it a new attitude.

[Abe Frohman]

I don't understand what Girardi's problem is with that play. His catcher was all over the plate, like he should be on that play. What is the baserunner supposed to do? Concede himself as an out?

 

This is Major League Baseball, as he well knows. Guys are trying to make a team.

[Abe Frohman]

Wow, Duncan deserves that. Spikes to the groin/inner thigh = not cool.

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't understand what Girardi's problem is with that play.

 

I think his problem is he feels like he has to say what he said, rather than actually believe it.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

He's stabbing a black man away from being OMC's new hero.

classless

[Abe Frohman]

He's stabbing a black man away from being OMC's new hero.

classless

 

Who is OMC and what is that all about?

[Geech]

He's stabbing a black man away from being OMC's new hero.

classless

 

Who is OMC and what is that all about?

 

OMC is OleMissCub and it's about his man-crush for Ty Cobb, who once also spiked a man in the crotch was a violent racist.

[C.C.]

Personally I am glad to see the Rays bringing this new attitude.

 

Isn't this the same crap they've done with the Red Sox for years? I certainly wouldn't call it a new attitude.

 

Yep! I believe Lou brought that attitude to Tampa. Looks like it never left.

[sneakypower]

is there a prize given to posters for derailing threads with petty personal squabbles? it certainly would explain a lot.

[Yanksfan1523]

Duncan was wrong! That was a bad play.

 

I never read too many Yankee fans going crazy over Cervelli. He was run over while blocking the plate from a guy trying to make the Rays. I am not sure the play had to happen in the 9th inning of a meaningless ST game, But if they want to play hard the Yanks should play hard as well. Duncan went to far though.

[YearofDaCubs]

Duncan was wrong! That was a bad play.

 

I never read too many Yankee fans going crazy over Cervelli. He was run over while blocking the plate from a guy trying to make the Rays. I am not sure the play had to happen in the 9th inning of a meaningless ST game, But if they want to play hard the Yanks should play hard as well. Duncan went to far though.

I'm sure he got the wink from Girardi.

[javy knows my name]

Shelley Duncan spikes Akinori Iwamuri. He's stabbing a black man away from being OMC's new hero.

This might be the funniest thing I've read on here.

[Yanksfan1523]

Duncan was wrong! That was a bad play.

 

I never read too many Yankee fans going crazy over Cervelli. He was run over while blocking the plate from a guy trying to make the Rays. I am not sure the play had to happen in the 9th inning of a meaningless ST game, But if they want to play hard the Yanks should play hard as well. Duncan went to far though.

I'm sure he got the wink from Girardi.

 

Whatever, It is a lose-lose in my opinion. They go back at the Devil Rays and they are the [expletive] Yankees to all the haters. If they let the play go then they are wusses. Whatever.

 

IMHO, Girardi is sending a message that is a long time coming. It is time the Yankees started to play with passion again.

[javy knows my name]

Duncan was wrong! That was a bad play.

 

I never read too many Yankee fans going crazy over Cervelli. He was run over while blocking the plate from a guy trying to make the Rays. I am not sure the play had to happen in the 9th inning of a meaningless ST game, But if they want to play hard the Yanks should play hard as well. Duncan went to far though.

I'm sure he got the wink from Girardi.

 

Whatever, It is a lose-lose in my opinion. They go back at the Devil Rays and they are the [expletive] Yankees to all the haters. If they let the play go then they are wusses. Whatever.

 

IMHO, Girardi is sending a message that is a long time coming. It is time the Yankees started to play with passion again.

But they've had a one-man intangible machine who wins games all by himself and risks bodily harm to record meaningless outs! What more could you ask for?

[shnsajax]

Duncan was wrong! That was a bad play.

 

I never read too many Yankee fans going crazy over Cervelli. He was run over while blocking the plate from a guy trying to make the Rays. I am not sure the play had to happen in the 9th inning of a meaningless ST game, But if they want to play hard the Yanks should play hard as well. Duncan went to far though.

I'm sure he got the wink from Girardi.

 

Whatever, It is a lose-lose in my opinion. They go back at the Devil Rays and they are the [expletive] Yankees to all the haters. If they let the play go then they are wusses. Whatever.

 

IMHO, Girardi is sending a message that is a long time coming. It is time the Yankees started to play with passion again.

But they've had a one-man intangible machine who wins games all by himself and risks bodily harm to record meaningless outs! What more could you ask for?

 

"What it does is it opens another chapter of intensity in the spring training ballgames," Duncan said, referring to the home-plate collision. "They showed what is acceptable to them and how they're going to play the game, so we're going to go out there to match their intensity -- or even exceed it."

 

"There's going to be no malicious evil intent in terms of carryover, but it just adds a different type of fire to your gut when you play that team because you understand how they're playing the game and what their mind-set is," Duncan said Sunday.

 

But Duncan's slide was the second of two plays suggesting the Yankees were more than a little upset at the Rays.

 

If they hadn't just drilled Longoria the inning before it might not have happened. But since Duncan made the comments then followed up with this it probably could not have been stopped.