draysbay.com - 3/13/2008
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Forget the merits of Saturday's play at the plate involving Elliot "Helliot" Johnson, the Yankees got their "revenge" in the first by pegging Evan Longoria with a pitch, but for Shelley Duncan it wasn't enough. Oh no, he had to try and high spike Akinori Iwamura on what amounted to a game of tag for Iwamura, the furthest thing from a bang-bang play. Jonny Gomes ran in from right and speared ...
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Video: Duncan “Retalliates”; Zim Grabs Junk
Bugs & Cranks —
... Video of Shelley “Duvall” Duncan’s girlie cheap shot on Aki. The highlight is that ESPN ends the clip with video of Don Zimmer grabbing his crotch, (from Red Lasso via DRaysBay….) ...
The Fightin’ Devil Rays!
umpbump.com —
... DRaysBay has the video and offers Duncan some free advice: “Mr. Duncan, next time you want to tango, make sure the other team doesn’t have a semi-deranged part-time wrestler on the field at the same time, okay?” And Rays Index has ...
[HAPPY HOUR] Rays Blogosphere Refrains From Throwing Brushback Pitches
Rays Index —
... DRays Bay actually did have a few choice words saying that somebody apparently had to be a "hard ass" however reminding Shirley Duncan that Jonny Gomes has wrestling experience gave the post more of a silly edge as opposed to coming down hard on the Yankees...However, HUGE hat tip to DRays Bay for being the first with the actual video. [DRays Bay] ...
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Beyond the Box Score —
Fangraphs has added pitch data for each pitcher; scroll to the bottom for the info. Hat tip to RotoJunkie. If you didn't see the brawl overblown confrontation yesterday between the Yankees and Rays, I have video up over at DRaysBay I'm about to post the final NL previews, so no pics of the day.
Your Team Ain’t S#!t #22: The Mets
Bugs & Cranks —
... Beltran, Alou, Church, Chavez vs. Crawford, Upton, Gomes, Floyd.
Jonny Gomes is a tough guy. He defends his teammates — this is what he said about his actions in the recent Devil Rays-Yankees mini-brawl:
I just went in for an old-fashioned forearm shimmy and I grabbed the guy [refers to Shelley “Duvall” Duncan, uses term “guy” loosely]. I was just sending a message.”
He also wrassles.
Ryan Church is an anti-semite.
Our magnificent Mets ...
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