Royals Review - Royals-White Sox game erupts in brawl"A dim view of humanity" -Lee Judgehttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/29790/royalsreview.gif2015-04-24T10:00:14-04:00http://www.royalsreview.com/rss/stream/82548222015-04-24T10:00:14-04:002015-04-24T10:00:14-04:00Hawk Harrelson narrates a fight
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<p>He gone.</p> <p>In 1877 Thomas Edison recited lines from "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into the worlds first audio recorder. The next year, the Royal Institution in Britain read "Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle" in what could be regarded as the first audiobook.</p>
<p>What we cover today is on the same level as those brief stanzas that the Father of Sound spoke. Last night, for what is likely the 10,000th time in <a href="https://www.southsidesox.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">White Sox</a> baseball, a fight broke out in a White Sox game. Players yelled, Chicagoans chanted "KC sucks!", yet Hawk Harrelson remained calm, collected, and jingoistic as always.</p>
<p>Harrelson is a noted and prestigious orator. One who creates Shakespeare-esque soliloquies, Melville like paragraphs, and holding a Vonnegut like view of this silly, silly world. Harrelson swore in President Obama after the 2012 election, gave the commencement speech of the 2008 Harvard graduating class, and hosted the White House Correspondents Dinner <b>and </b>Saturday Night Live in the same year.</p>
<p>Below you'll find a full transcript of Hawk's accounting of the fight. This is a truly master recording, due to be archived in many vaunted halls of different types of fame. Not since God spoke to Moses has a dialogue ever been so important.</p>
<p>Readers note: Hawk Harrelson is accompanied by Steve Stone, in what is Stone's 4th season "in the booth."</p>
<p><b><i>Ext - Chicago (cold but well light from stadium lights)</i></b></p>
<p><span>Adam Eaton</span> hits the ball back to Yordano Ventura. Ventura turns to Eaton and yells something inaudible.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Right back... *chuckles*</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What's Ventura talking ab...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I don't know?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What's he talking about?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I have no clue...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That's absolutely absurd</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This...yeah</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Guy hits a one hopper and you're really gonna get upset about that? And Moustakas now is taking Esc...taking Ventura off the field</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now...Now you go on out there and you knew what was gonna happen. We said it was gonna happen in Kansas City. These two teams are gonna have some problems. Some altercations. Kansas City's been having 'em with Oakland, now they getting back with us.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ned Yost is talking with <span>Chris Sale</span>. That's kind of an unusual situation. You don't see that- and now it breaks out again and this is a good one folks.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well there's gone be... just look for the outside because you're not gonna see much on the inside - cheap shots cause there's probably gonna be some.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sure would like to see Chris Sale get out of there</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now Yost, ought, Yost, I don't know what he was saying to Samardzija...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">He was talking to Chris Sale</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I mean Sale...The only thing he shoulda been saying was "get outta here!" If he was trying to provoke anything, he oughta have his behind beat. Samardz-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now here he-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Samardz-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Here he goes again</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well we have seen some of this happening... We saw it in Kansas City, we saw it coming...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">There's Gio Soto who is teammates with Samardzija with the <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Cubs</a>, and with Oakland, and now here with the Sox so he's out there trying to calm him down...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Abreu's trying to be a peacemaker out there.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now Samardzija, apparently somebody said something to him and Jeff took exception to him and there is a wild swing and... can't tell who it was, but he was obviously swinging at <span>Jeff Samardzija</span> because he just missed him.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well I'm sure if any of those guys wanna piece of Samardzija, he'll be...he'll be happy to oblige</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">*chuckles* Okay and the last out-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Here's the whole thing right here...</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>The broadcasters watch the replay of Ventura mouthing something to Eaton</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Oh-ho-ho</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">...staring at <span>Adam Eaton</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You saw what said?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Yeah I did...umm...lip reading is one of my specialities. And Adam Eaton can-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well that's just-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Incredulous-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ah Ventura that's just absolute stupidity...That's all that is, sheer stupidity on that guy. I tell you what he keeps that stuff up he gone, he gone get his behind whipped.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Stone</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well everybody is headed back to their respective bullpens and everybody is going to their respective dugouts. And so, we'll step out and-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Hawk</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We'll be back...</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Camera fades to commercial. Stock rock-n-roll music plays out the broadcast. A Viagra commercial is shown</b></p>
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<p>Both sides sound surprisingly cool.</p> <p>The Royals and White Sox took to arms tonight in a<a href="http://www.royalsreview.com/2015/4/23/8486897/royals-white-sox-game-erupts-in-base-clearing-brawl"> seventh-inning bench-clearing brawl</a> in the middle of Kansas City's <a href="http://www.royalsreview.com/2015/4/24/8486823/kc-and-chicago-brawl-in-marathon-3-2-royals-victory">3-2 extra-inning win.</a> The incident stemmed from a ground ball back to Yordano Ventura off the bat of Adam Eaton in which Ventura and Eaton jawed at each other. Ostensibly Eaton yelled at Ventura for "quick-pitching" him, and Ventura responded with a four-letter expletive (hey, his English is improving!)</p>
<p>After an ensuing brawl in which five players were ejected, the Royals and White Sox had surprisingly calm and mature comments after the game.</p>
<p>The conflict may have begun in the top of the seventh, after Christian Colon lined into a double play.</p>
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<p>Christian Colon said Jeff Samardzija began yelling at him after the lineout double play. "Get back to the dugout."</p>
— Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDeFranks/status/591468051054264320">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Colon's reply: So I yell back. What your deal, bro? You’re not even in the game. No one is saying anything. No one’s trying to fight nobody.</p>
— Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDeFranks/status/591470747182190594">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/michaelengel">@michaelengel</a> Zapruder-esque quality but as seen from FSKC broadcast: Samardzija yelling & pointing after Top 7th. <a href="http://t.co/t7eJgdcohl">pic.twitter.com/t7eJgdcohl</a></p>
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<p>After the game, Adam Eaton took the high road.</p>
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<p>Eaton: "Sometimes boys will be boys and I think that was a situation where we had some excitement."</p>
— Scott Merkin (@scottmerkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottmerkin/status/591464863194480640">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Eaton on KC: "They’ve earned everything they’ve gotten and now they want to keep it. You don’t expect anything less."</p>
— Scott Merkin (@scottmerkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottmerkin/status/591465871169560576">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Chris Sale was mum.</p>
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<p>Sale's take on incident: "I think everyone knows. I’m not going to sit here and put my foot in my mouth or spill the beans."</p>
— Doug Padilla (@ESPNChiSox) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNChiSox/status/591467829905338368">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Samardzija, on the other hand, was not available.</p>
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<p>Samardzija was not available postgame. It was Sale, Eaton, Flowers and Robin who spoke.</p>
— Scott Merkin (@scottmerkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottmerkin/status/591465974315880449">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Lorenzo Cain on Jeff Samardzija: "I'm not a big fan."</p>
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/status/591469133109178368">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Eric Hosmer spoke for the Royals and stepped up as a leader.</p>
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<p>For those who missed what Hosmer said, he said they need to figure it out, not let emotions get the better and get back to playing baseball.</p>
— David Lesky (@DBLesky) <a href="https://twitter.com/DBLesky/status/591458195245174785">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>The Royals say they're <a href="http://www.foxsports.com/kansas-city/story/benches-clear-between-kansas-city-royals-chicago-white-sox-042315">closer than ever.</a></p>
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<p>"We've got to have each other's backs," outfielder Jarrod Dyson explained. "If you come at us, we're not going to back down. We're going to keep playing the game our way."</p>
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<p>Yordano says he has some growing up to do.</p>
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<p>Ventura says via Guthrie that he recognizes that some of his actions are putting his team in an unfavorable light and he wants to work on it</p>
— Chris Fickett (@ChrisFickett) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisFickett/status/591466920987074560">April 24, 2015</a>
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Where was Ned during all of this?</p>
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<p>Ned Yost somehow ended up at the bottom of the pile in the fight. "It felt like there was 20 guys sitting on top of me for a little while."</p>
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/status/591473337034936320">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Mike Jirschele, pushed down by Jeff Samardzija during the melee, is fine.</p>
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<p>Mike Jirschele says he is OK. His son texted to ask if he felt like he was playing wishbone-formation football again.</p>
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/status/591470566353145856">April 24, 2015</a>
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Ned's just trying to get through to the rascally kid.</p>
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<p>Yost on Ventura maturing: "You know how many times my mom had to tell me things before I finally heard it?"</p>
— Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDeFranks/status/591474555874512896">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>How long will this last, Ned?</p>
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<p>Yost on how this stops: "It just stops. Everybody gets tired of it. They feel like enough’s enough and just start playing baseball again."</p>
— Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDeFranks/status/591475690521763841">April 24, 2015</a>
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https://www.royalsreview.com/2015/4/24/8487515/royals-white-sox-post-game-commentsMax Rieper2015-04-24T00:22:29-04:002015-04-24T00:22:29-04:00KC, Chicago brawl in marathon 3-2 Royals victory
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<p>First brawl, check. First extra innings game, check. First extra innings victory, check. </p> <p>At some point, a boiling pot will run over. On a cold night in Chicago, this was that game for the Kansas City Royals.</p>
<p>The rest of the game will be ignored by many, but the seventh inning will be discussed in the national circles for a long time. A brawl broke out in the seventh inning of a tied game with, yes, Yordano Ventura on the mound. Ventura fielded an Eaton ground ball cleanly, yelled what I could interpret as 'f*** you,' and threw him out at first base, though Eaton may have said something first after Ventura's initial staredown. Regardless, Eaton walked towards Ventura, benches cleared, resulting in Ventura, Lorenzo Cain, Edinson Volquez, Chris Sale, and Jeff Smardzija being ejected. Suspensions will be sure to follow.</p>
<p>KC and Chicago did play an actual baseball game though. Let's address that first.</p>
<p>Against Chicago All-Star lefty Chris Sale, the Royals struck immediately. Sale, usually so good against lefties, gave up a single to Mike Moustakas. Cain then singled before Eric Hosmer's walk to load the bases. Kendrys Morales, who has been brilliant in his opening stint with the Royals, scored Moustakas and Cain with a single. At 2-0 after one inning, the Royals were in a good position against an extremely tough pitcher.</p>
<p>Ventura, contrasting with Sale, opened the game extremely well with a quick 1-2-3 inning. Ventura continued to dominate, striking out the side in the second inning. A Ventura start isn't without its drama, after all, and Ventura scared Royals fans in the bottom of the third inning. With two outs, Micah Johnson hit a grounder to Hosmer. Hosmer threw over to Ventura, but Ventura missed the big and tangled his feet with Johnson, bringing both to the ground. The Royals' ace struggled with his command afterwards, but he returned no worse for the wear.</p>
<p>Ventura allowed a single run in each of the fourth and fifth innings (through an Alexei Ramirez single and a Jose Abreu double, respectively), but, as it has too often been recently, drama overshadowed the game. Ventura hit Abreu with a pitch in the fourth inning, which was pretty clearly an accident pitch. Sale then went up an in on Moustakas in the next inning, barely missing his jaw. The pitch didn't seem intentional to me, but circumstances were sketchy. Moose stayed in the game. Sale got out of the inning with no further damage.</p>
<p>Something happened in the middle of the seventh inning, according to Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler, and then all hell broke loose. Ventura fielded a ball and threw him out at first base. On route, Ventura stared Eaton down and they exchanged words; from the Fox Sports Kansas City angle it seemed as if Ventura spoke first, but Twitter sources suggest Eaton spoke first. As he neared first base, Eaton ran towards Ventura, unsuccessfully restrained by an official. Benches cleared. Blue and black shoved back and forth. Volquez threw a punch at a White Sox player and was restrained. Fans at US Cellular Field chanted 'KC sucks.' As Andy McCullough reported:</p>
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— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/status/591422779951554560">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>This is awful. Samardzija and Cain went at it.</p>
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<p>Emilio Bonifacio played the peacemaker during the fight. Kept Ventura and Herrera out of the fray.</p>
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<p>Samardzija charged Cain, missed and bowled over Mike Jirschele.</p>
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<p>If you recall, Samardzija plunked Cain on opening day immediately following a Moustakas home run. More batters were hit and warned during the series, and benches emptied, but nothing happened. Upon further review of the scrum, it seemed that the battle began in earnest once Cain and Samardzija began barking at each other.</p>
<p>Of course, the game must go on. And go on it did. To extras. Kelvin Herrera, who himself is appealing a suspension, squirmed out of a jam in the eighth inning. Jason 'Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs' Frasor took the ninth inning, escaping the ninth with minimal difficulty and a mere 9 pitches. Ryan Madson extricated himself from the 10th with men on second and third base.</p>
<p>The 11th and 12th innings came and went. Forward the Royals traveled. In the 13th inning, Moustakas got on base with an opposite field single. Jarrod Dyson, who replaced Cain following his ejection five innings earlier, got on to first with a fielder's choice. Eric Hosmer, Crime Horse, the Savior, yanked a double down the right field line. Dyson, who was stealing on the 2-2 pitch, raced around to score the first run by the KC baseball club in twelve excruciating innings. Thus, the Royals climbed ahead 3-2.</p>
<p>Ned Yost had been saving Wade Davis. And Wade Davis saved the Royals. With zero margin for error, the cyborg known as Wade Davis carved up the middle of the White Sox order like a delicious steak.</p>
<p>Whew. The Royals won 3-2.</p>
<p>Apart from the insanity that's going on, the past two games have highlighted issues with the Royals. The starting rotation is still a big question mark, as Jeremy Guthrie's ineffectiveness and Ventura's immaturity looms. The offense is also unlikely to continue its amazing streak; sometimes singles just don't come in bunches.</p>
<p>As far as the brawl? Look, I know that every fight is a two-way street. Samardzija kicked off a feud in the opening game, one in which the Royals willingly continued. Ventura's perceived slight with Trout and varied hit-by-pitches in that series was also not merely on the Royals. The recent A's/Royals fire was definitely stoked by both sides.</p>
<p>However, there is one common denominator in all these events: the Kansas City Royals. The Royals must own this. In the postgame interview with Joel Goldberg, Hosmer said that their emotions were getting the best of them. That is most certainly true.</p>
<p>Hold on to your butts, gentlemen and ladies. Three more games remain with the White Sox here in Chicago.</p>
https://www.royalsreview.com/2015/4/24/8486823/kc-and-chicago-brawl-in-marathon-3-2-royals-victoryMatthew LaMar2015-04-23T23:15:17-04:002015-04-23T23:15:17-04:00Royals-White Sox Game 16 Open Thread - Part II
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<p>Another boring game, eh?</p> <p>FIGHT</p>
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<p>This is getting old, Yordano.</p> <p>The Royals continued having dust-ups with teams, as their Thursday night game against the White Sox was interrupted by a bench-clearing brawl that led to five ejections. In the seventh inning, Yordano Ventura fielded a quick shot back to the mound from White Sox hitter Adam Eaton, then barked something at Eaton as he ran to first base. Benches emptied and five players were ejected - Ventura, Lorenzo Cain, Edinson Volquez for the Royals, and Chris Sale and Jeff Samardzija for the White Sox.</p>
<p>Here is the play.</p>
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<p>Here's Ventura barking at Eaton.</p>
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<p>Welp, this just caused a benches-clearing brawl in Chicago: <a href="http://t.co/8XQePrDbM7">http://t.co/8XQePrDbM7</a> <a href="https://t.co/RHDwZKolef">https://t.co/RHDwZKolef</a></p>
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Ryan Lefebvre seemed to think Adam Eaton barked something at Ventura first.</p>
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<p>Royals TV saying that Adam Eaton said something 1st to Ventura, but only after Ventura was staring at him. This isn’t like 5th grade at all</p>
— Dave Brown (@AnswerDave) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnswerDave/status/591431087290724353">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Here's Lorenzo Cain doing his best Beavis and Butthead impression <a href="http://t.co/ZxCLeBh8eX">pic.twitter.com/ZxCLeBh8eX</a></p>
— Shaun Newkirk (@Shauncore) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shauncore/status/591433189782069248">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Looks like Adam Eaton was relegated to equipment duty during the fight... <a href="http://t.co/oSaNSnIyPF">pic.twitter.com/oSaNSnIyPF</a></p>
— Shaun Newkirk (@Shauncore) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shauncore/status/591429855511764992">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Meanwhile here's Volquez with the big whiff <a href="http://t.co/wtQ7BEcR5f">pic.twitter.com/wtQ7BEcR5f</a></p>
— Shaun Newkirk (@Shauncore) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shauncore/status/591428955590234112">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Dyson was late to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/royals?src=hash">#royals</a> fight. <a href="http://t.co/1jIw1jeEJS">pic.twitter.com/1jIw1jeEJS</a></p>
— Jeremy Scheuch (@jeremyscheuch) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyscheuch/status/591425684850999296">April 24, 2015</a>
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Mike Jirschele may have gotten the worst of it.</p>
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<p>WOW RT <a href="https://twitter.com/KCTV5">@KCTV5</a>: AP is moving brawl at the ball field photos post haste. It's 2-2 after 8 in Chicago. <a href="https://twitter.com/whitesox">@whitesox</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals">@Royals</a> <a href="http://t.co/NgyomK0dTX">pic.twitter.com/NgyomK0dTX</a></p>
— Steven St.John (@SSJWHB) <a href="https://twitter.com/SSJWHB/status/591429902911451136">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>His control has been off all year RT <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar">@McCulloughStar</a>: Samardzija charged Cain, missed and bowled over Mike Jirschele.</p>
— Dave Brown (@AnswerDave) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnswerDave/status/591429424643514368">April 24, 2015</a>
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Ken Rosenthal thinks Ventura is putting his teammates in jeopardy.</p>
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— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/591429145286029312">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Even if Adam Eaton says something, the Royals -- and Ventura especially -- have to know other teams are trying to bait them. Be bigger.</p>
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/591434982142283776">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Heard this from multiple scouts, executives over past few days: Ventura could not behave this way if he pitched in the N.L. and had to bat.</p>
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/status/591432536083030016">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>I've pretty much had it with Ventura. Can't defend his actions. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a></p>
— Craig Brown (@royalsauthority) <a href="https://twitter.com/royalsauthority/status/591424112184008705">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Nice to see that Ventura learned so much about how to handle himself after this weekend.</p>
— Nate Bukaty (@nate_bukaty) <a href="https://twitter.com/nate_bukaty/status/591424005917159424">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Hawk Harrelson is calling out what Yordano Ventura said as "sheer stupidity". I agree with Hawk. STOP MAKING ME AGREE WITH HAWK YOU GUYS</p>
— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/591423929539022848">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Sorry folks. Ventura has some growing up to do.</p>
— Todd Leabo (@Leabonics) <a href="https://twitter.com/Leabonics/status/591423221477429248">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>if these Royals are a manifestation of a Manfred idea to make baseball more interesting to young people, I actually think it could work</p>
— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) <a href="https://twitter.com/based_ball/status/591433343549345792">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Ejections this season: Royals 9 Padres 3 White Sox 2 (both tonight) 11 teams w/ 1 each</p>
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/591432375269199873">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>The Royals are an embarrassment to baseball.</p>
— Bill Baer (@Baer_Bill) <a href="https://twitter.com/Baer_Bill/status/591430254209687552">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>WINNER OF MAYWEATHER/PACQUIAO GETS TO FACE YORDANO VENTURA.</p>
— NOT BUSTER OLNEY (@TRIPPINGOLNEY) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRIPPINGOLNEY/status/591424113228546048">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Ventura gonna get suspended for...saying a couple words? Didn't hit anyone, didn't throw punches. Curious on the precedent here.</p>
— Hunter Samuels (@HunterSamuels) <a href="https://twitter.com/HunterSamuels/status/591426253523132420">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>I'm starting to believe that Yordano Ventura didn't tip that stripper from last year now.</p>
— Carrington Harrison (@cdotharrison) <a href="https://twitter.com/cdotharrison/status/591432840924925952">April 24, 2015</a>
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<p>Straight outta Kauffman <a href="http://t.co/IYsfDWRimW">pic.twitter.com/IYsfDWRimW</a></p>
— Wes Hutson (@wkh09) <a href="https://twitter.com/wkh09/status/591382576184569856">April 23, 2015</a>
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https://www.royalsreview.com/2015/4/23/8486909/reactions-to-the-royals-white-sox-brawlMax Rieper2015-04-23T22:44:49-04:002015-04-23T22:44:49-04:00Royals-White Sox game erupts in bench-clearing brawl<iframe src="http://m.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=86661883&topic_id=6479266&width=400&height=224&property=mlb" width="400" height="224">Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>
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