Written by So let’s get back to the silly stuff, but which we mean let’s get back to the fun stuff. And by fun stuff we of course mean a return to the violence perpetrated on the sporting fields of dreams. That’s a very literal metaphor this week as we’re going to have a look at baseball, that most traditional of American sports.
Regarded as even more boring then cricket by most of the rest of the world, the image of baseball players outside the U.S. seems to be of slightly chubby chaps who (allegedly) enhance their performances with prohibited substances. Baseball performances that is.
So can they fight? Frankly you’d think that anyone who has the patience to sit through a baseball match wouldn’t have the aggression or intensity for a big ruck but that’s what we’re going to find out.
Now I love this one, not for the lumbering jog towards the pitcher but of course for the quick glance and fairly accomplished back kick at the bloke behind (the catcher? the backstop? How should I be expected to know?) There’s not much of a fight here but that’s secondary anyway.
Now I have to confess that finding a decent scrap is not that easy – plenty of what they seem to call ‘bench clearers’ but very little in the way of Friday-night-closing-time-street-fights. The next ones not too bad though but I already tell these boys are not going to rate too highly on my ‘hardest sportsman’ chart.
Now this is a bit more like – there’s a couple of lads here who look like they could start a fight in an empty room – flailing fists, a headlock and importantly a fight breaking out away from the big crowd of players. Well done them.
So I’m a bit in two minds but these guys still aren’t going to threaten the rugby players. Here’s a last one, from Korea apparently, they do it a bit differently there:
