It's hard to think of a more one-sided "rivalry" in sports than the one currently contested between the Pirates and the Brewers. Before the Pirates' 8-5 win last night, the Brewers had taken 17 straight games between the two teams, dating back to May 22 of last season. Somehow (or maybe because of the losing streak, though the Pirates rarely seem to be the initiating team) a lot of bad blood has boiled up between the two teams, and it came to a head (again) Monday night in the eighth inning. Last night's mini-altercation started when Brewers' reliever Chris Smith beaned Pirates' reliever Jeff Karstens. Karstens, you may recall, beaned Ryan Braun back in May, which sent Braun over the edge and led to some ridiculous and vague threats that never materialized. So Karstens got the message and started walking towards Smith, when he was intercepted by Jason Kendall, who appeared to point to first base. This is when things got interesting.
The benches cleared at this point and shortly after, Pirates' pitching coach Joe Kerrigan and Kendall were shown on TV screaming at each other, with both having to be restrained from what would've presumably been the funniest old-man fight that's taken place in a baseball game in some time. After the game was over, Kendall was clearly upset with Kerrigan, repeatedly referring to him by the apparently fictional name, "Dave Kerwin."
"I was OK until Dave Kerwin started yelling at me," said Kendall, who ignored the correction [to Kerrigan's name]. "I'm not going to get yelled at. He started yelling at me and ... I'm OK until someone starts yelling at me.Kendall led off the next inning and was not beaned, but given the length of the Brewers' ridiculous beanball memory (the original beaning took place in April and no brawls ensued during the rest of the series despite three Pirate batters being beaned in the next game) I hardly think this is over.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's not over because the Brewers take ridiculous offense to just about everything. Last year, Prince Fielder tried to pick a fight with Matt Capps over a similar incident and earlier this year, Braun took offense to a pitch from Ryan Dempster that was thrown up and in.
It sort of sounds like, just maybe, the Brewers take offense to just about everything that happens on the field that they don't like.
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Who is this writer? Did you just fall off a golf cart at your college fraternity golf outing or something? These guys got hit, they didn't get 'beaned'. If they got 'beaned', they would have been taken on a cart to the hospital like that guy from the Padres the other night. Its not a 'beanball war' until you take it up to hitting guys in the head. This is just an old-fashioned brushback war escalating into hitting guys. You want to put an end to it? Then go ahead and actually 'bean' the opposing pitcher. That will end it, fast. Stop wasting our time reinventing the terminology in the interest of pop culture currency, and focus on the bad blood. What a loser.
GO PIRATES!
Hey Wilthoj descend from mount Zion and grace us with your wisdom. I beg of you, condescend to the masses and inform us as to what the difference is between hitting someone with a pitch and beaning them. In my 26 years watching baseball, announcers have consistently used the term "beaning" someone to mean that they were hit by a pitch.
Alas, maybe you are busy counting your "pop culture currency".
Also re: your "What a loser" jab, was this in reference to Jason Kendall or Ryan Braun? To tell you the truth I can't figure out which of those douche-drinkers is a bigger loser...
Hey Jack Move, you're the loser. Don't disrespect Ryan Braun or Jason Kendall. They more accomplishments than you'll ever have, so shut up.
rdtdcjhome, you make this too easy. First, lets start with syntax and grammar. What exactly does this mean? "They more accomplishments than you'll ever have, so shut up." There is no verb in that sentence.
I'll put my own verb in. How about this version? "They [will never have] more accomplishments than you'll ever have, so shut up." Lousy grammar but I appreciate the compliment. It may help for you to sound the words out as you write them. Verbs are very necessary in the English language Of course an aspiring GED candidate such as yourself knows that already.
Since you are aware of all of my accomplishments, I won't summarize them here. Still, I hope you will help me edit my second doctoral dissertation on the gullibility and fragile ego states of Milwaukee Brewer fans who have lustful tendencies towards major league baseball players with small genitalia. I'd like to send you a questionaire that you can fill out at your leasure. This will help me immensely since Milwaukee Brewer fans who can read and write... oops, I guess you can't write as we saw above. Just sound the questionaire out and think about how awful a catcher Jason Kendall is. I said think about it and stop touching yourself! Now, write back to me in whatever language you speak. No drooling on the paper though. That makes it hard to read. Please use verbs as well.
If all the above was confusing I'll put it in words you can understand:
Bruer fanz rok! we smarterest then u r.
Kenel (mispelled on purpose) is a washed up has been , may a washed up never was. The Brewers act like children pulling their shirts out of their pants and trying to show up the other teams. I have come to despise them almost as much as I hate the Capitals and ovechkin.