This has always confused me in past fights. The talking heads the next day will say "What a disgrace, this is not good for baseball" meanwhile they run the highlights on loop
I feel like streaking is the only time they actually crack down on things (for the most part). A few words said on broadcast, cameras elsewhere, pretend it didn't happen till it's over...generally anyway.
It's funny because the Rays color guy Brian Anderson (not to be confused with the Brewers color guy Brian Anderson) is all about a good brawl. Tonight is not the first time I've heard him say live on air he wants to go down to the field and fight an entire team. He even told stories tonight about his playing days and fights he was in
“Wow the pitcher threw straight at Craig Counsell, never seen that before—and now the benches are clearing as the umpire claims it was an accident and has declined to eject the Brewers pitcher.”
Different angles show Siri actually got a few solid hits on Uribe once the scrum had formed, right before he got pulled out and separated from everyone.
During and after the infamous Amir Garrett charging the Pirates' dugout brawl, the Reds' audio people played "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" and "All You Need Is Love" over GABP's sound system.
I know that this is not what we're supposed to want to see... but if I'm being real this is actually what I want to see, as long as nobody gets really hurt. Brawls every now and then are great, gets everyone talking, real life drama,, plus we get to break everything down in slo-mo like the Zapruder film now.
I was randomly listening to the game live when it happened, and it took clicking the “30 seconds back” button like three times to figure out what was going on, because the DOWN GOES ANDERSON seemed to come out of nowhere, lmao.
Seems like the last decade or so every season there's one real good fight and the rest are just guys standing around. Maybe this is the quota for the season
The funny thing is that back in 2019, when basically everyone in the NL Central was repeatedly brawling with each other, you guys were the ones basically standing aside.
Counsell was about calm (mostly) competence, Murphy is about fighting like hell and coming out of the scrum with the trophy and a bloody lip. God imagine if this is our year right after Greg left. It would feel so good.
what's cool about this angle is you see that the runner completely dodges the punch and is the only one who connects which is not how it appeared in OP's video
27 actually since we fought the Mets and Orioles too. Actually 26 unless you think we’re insane enough to clear the benches against ourselves, which I could understand if you did.
Dumb as hell by Uribe to start throwing punches, regardless of whatever Siri said to him.
But it seemed like something was going to boil over at some point, and the umps clearly have no control over this game, in fact if anything they've probably exacerbated things.
Freddy hit Siri on a 3-0 pitch after he started losing command. Siri hit a home run the at bat before but it was a normal one with no theatrics. The ump threw him out without warning
There's a lot that lead up to this. Siri hit a 452 ft. homerun earlier off Peralta, was a little slow out of the box and was stared down by Peralta, then later beaned. Peralta was ejected without a warning. Brewers manager Murphy was livid and thrown out for the second straight night.
Should show this on a video of how not to umpire. Made nothing into something with the earlier ejections, and got everyone riled up. They wanted drama so now they've got it.
I paid $5 for my ticket today what a steal