Mar 13 2008
Yankees & Devil Rays git ta scrappin’
In a spring training match between the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, a brutal play at the plate in which the Yankees catchers wrist was broken, put into motion a tit for tat exchange that ultimately ended in a bench clearing brawl between the two teams. To follow that up, a Devil Ray player was beaned, and the pitcher was ejected. Later in the game, Yankee 2nd baseman Shelley Duncan, son of hard-core pitching coach Dave Duncan, dropped a groin high testicle teaser (Ty Cobb style) slide into 2nd base. While it didn’t seriously injure the Devil Ray player, it looked as though it might leave him in a bed next to our man Felix Pie, commiserating over their tandem testicular troubles. Watch the series of plays that set it off here (video quality is mediocre at best, but worth watching):
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Girardi is a pussy. That DRay running over the catcher was a clean hard nose play and I loved that Zim told Girardi to fuck off. That’s a dirty play by Duncan, about as dirty as it gets in baseball. What little respect I had for a ‘man’ named Shelley is gone.
On a side note: The DRays are an exciting team on offense including: Upton, Crawford, Peña. If they actually had pitching they could challenge .500 which, given their history and the two giants in their division, I think would be an accomplishment. Sadly since they lack pitching they will suck da balls again.
The Rays are an exciting team this year, and as The Sports Guy pointed out in his latest podcast, “trading Elijah Dukes and Delmon Young has to improve team chemistry. They could trade them both for a serial killer and it would be an improvement.”
To refresh your memory:
Delmon Young - threw his bat at an umpire then stared him down. Then threw another bat as he was backing towards the dugout. Received a 50 game suspension.
Elijah Dukes - Since 1998, he has been arrested 6 times on charges including possession of marijuana, assault, and resisting an officer. On May 23, 2007 it was reported that his wife filed a restraining order after he threatened to kill her. On June 12, a 17-year-old foster child who was living in the care of a relative of Dukes accused him of impregnating her. When the girl confronted Dukes, he allegedly got angry and threw a bottle of Gatorade at her.
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