Baseball Brawls and Home Field Advantage

Ryan and I still do talk online a lot, but we've been very bad about posting the actual entertaining conversations we had, which was the original premise on our site to be begin with, and now we're almost too much like Page 2.  But here's an entertaining one we had back on July 21 about brawls we've seen and ideas for extreme home field advantage. Enjoy! - Steve

Ryan: also, its like the Tigers vs. the world now... have they brawled with the Sox yet?

Steve: no which is weird

Steve: I need to go to a few more games

Steve: maybe they'll play like an interleague makeup against the Phillies and brawl with them after a "message" pitch

Ryan: didn't they  couple years ago?

Steve: the Sox and Tigers did

Steve: Keith Foulke got a black eye

Ryan: I'm trying to think of when the Indians and Tigers would have went at it... I know this is the first the Twins and Tigers have had a problem

Steve: I'm sure they've fought before

Ryan: well yeah, but recently I mean

Ryan: and why fight the Royals? half the team wasn't in the majors at the beginning of the year

Steve: I think half the team wasn't born yet

Ryan: The Twins always have problems with the Indians

Ryan: but for as heated as the division has been b/w the Twins and Sox, there really have never been any major brawls

Steve: not really

Ryan: Just the Indians in my favorite on field incident ever

Steve: what was that?

Ryan: Hunter gets drilled, I think by Baez when he was still with them so he picks up the ball and fires his own 90 mph fastball right back at the pitcher

Steve: haha I remember that now

Ryan: "I was just giving him the ball back"

Steve: haha

Steve: I saw an actual brawl once at a White Sox game

Ryan: against?

Steve: Blue Jays

Steve: Jack McDowell hit Mark Whitten with a pitch and he charged the mound

Ryan: you don't see as many charges of the mound anymore

Steve: he got one good shot in on Black Jack, but then got thrown to the ground and pummeled by Carlton Fisk

Ryan: nice

Steve: that was the first time I ever saw the Sox win

Ryan: my brother was at the game where Chad Moeller went into the stands at Wrigley... he had to leave early though (class trip)

Ryan: The Twins have a 5 game series against Detroit this week

Steve: oh that sucks

Ryan: nobody wants that much time in Detroit

Steve: at least they aren't staying in a hotel there

Ryan: where would they be staying?

Steve: suburbs

Ryan: oh.. ok

Steve: at least I'd think so

Steve: there really aren't' hotels downtown

Ryan: You could go to work, and their is Juan Rincon with a duffel bag sleeping in the elevator

Ryan: ok... so Jason Johnson was pissed because Nick Punto bunted in a run

Steve: that would be awesome

Steve: because our elevators are the big industrial ones that can carry a car or 2

Ryan: Shannon Stewart is in the break room, sleep in his eyes getting a cup of coffee

Steve: that would be an awesome home field advantage

Steve: make the visitors sleep in random places in the Pontiac Assembly Center

Ryan: Or at random office complexes

Steve: I'm surprised no one has tried to crash here

Ryan: Haha... Notre Dame is at Purdue... put the offense up at Alcoa and the Defense in the Caterpillar plant

Steve: that would be so cool

Steve: I'd love to see a season of that

Steve: see what the home win % would be

Ryan: they might have to do that in the NHL

Steve: like the Sox, housing projects across the street

Ryan: "Thank you for calling TCF... Yes! I think we can fit a couple Montreal Canadiens in the Foshay Tower"

Ryan: That's an old building in Minneapolis, by the way

Steve: haha yeah I can see it

Steve: saves money

Ryan: There are widespread rumors that the Foshay is haunted too... which would add another element of suspense

Steve: nice

Steve: It can be the MLB's, "Get a feel for the city" promotion

Ryan: Or, for the hockey, an outreach thing, get to know the players

Steve: reaching out to the kids in the projects

Ryan: "Daddy, who is the Russian guy sleeping on the couch?" "Oh, that's Slava Kozlov, honey"