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Guardians’ radio pulls a Howard Cosell with Jose Ramirez, Tim Anderson fight call

“DOWN GOES ANDERSON! DOWN GOES ANDERSON!”

We haven’t seen a baseball brawl in what feels like forever, and on Saturday night, we got one in the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Guardians game.

It was all started when Jose Ramirez had some words with Tim Anderson, and then all chaos broke loose when the Guardians third baseman and White Sox shortstop put up their fists and exchanged blows.

But it was one punched that sent Anderson down to the dirt. And the Cleveland radio call summed it up by invoking a classic Howard Cosell call: “DOWN GOES ANDERSON! DOWN GOES ANDERSON!”

Yep, that’s “DOWN GOES FRAZIER!” for you:

Kind of a perfect call. We haven’t seen anything like this since that time Jose Bautista got hit.

An ugly Tim Anderson and José Ramírez fist fight sparked an all-out White Sox – Guardians brawl

An all-out brawl broke out in Cleveland against the White Sox and Guardians on Saturday night.

A fight between Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson and Cleveland Guardians third baseman José Ramírez sparked an all-out brawl between both teams on Saturday night in Cleveland.

The truly outrageous, lengthy brawl started in the bottom of the sixth inning with the White Sox leading the Guardians 5-1. Ramírez slid into Anderson at second base, with the umpire calling Ramírez safe, but the two started exchanging words the second Ramírez slid into second.

That turned into Anderson and Ramírez getting into boxing stances and throwing punches at each other. An umpire tried to break up the fight, but as soon as the fists when up, he quickly left the equation.

As you could imagine, all pandemonium broke loose after that, as the brawl eventually extended to both dugouts.

It’s perhaps the wildest moment of the MLB season so far.

Like, this is just everything you don’t want to see in a baseball game. The game eventually resumed, but you can imagine the main league office will be furious about this. Suspensions and fines feel like a guarantee at this point for both teams, particularly for Anderson and Ramírez.

The game also had a historic amount of ejections from both sides.

MLB fans seemed genuinely stunned by the brawl (and how the umpire seemingly got out of the way so the two could box) as it played out on live television for everyone to see.

Lip readers thought Tim Anderson said ‘I hate this place’ after White Sox fans booed him

He certainly didn’t seem happy.

After winning 93 games in 2021, the Chicago White Sox have been arguably the most disappointing team in baseball since. Despite a talented young core, the White Sox are off to another atrocious start this season — just a couple games better than the last-place Royals.

White Sox fans are justifiably frustrated, and the vibes around the clubhouse can’t be great either. But Tim Anderson is going to face some questions after cameras appeared to catch him voicing his displeasure about something on Sunday.

During the fifth inning of Sunday’s game against the Astros, Anderson didn’t advance to second on a pitch that got away from Martín Maldonado. The lack of focus didn’t sit well with the White Sox fans who responded by booing Anderson’s mistake. The star shortstop was visibly irritated on first base.

While speaking to his former White Sox teammate José Abreu, Anderson appeared to say something that could have been “I hate this place.” Abreu obviously was able to relate to that sentiment. He could have been talking about the pitch clock, though.

Last season, Phillies infielder Alec Bohm was caught saying the same thing on camera after fans booed him for a rough defensive effort. Bohm owned up to saying it after the game and apologized. We’ll have to see how Anderson responds.

Fans also had thoughts on what Anderson said there.

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Aaron Judge condemns Donaldson comments as Joe Kelly, Ethan Katz criticize MLB response

Anderson met with reporters Tuesday and discussed his history with Donaldson

Aaron Judge had his first chance to address reporters after Major League Baseball suspended New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson one game for racist taunts he made towards Tim Anderson. While Donaldson is appealing the decision, Judge made he clear he believes his teammate crossed a line.

Donaldson twice taunted Anderson with the name “Jackie” during Saturday’s White Sox-Yankees game in New York, culminating in a bench-clearing incident at home plate. Anderson made clear after the game that he considered those comments disrespectful. So did his manager, his teammates and Yankees manager Aaron Boone.

Judge is just the latest—and most noteworthy—player to speak out in support of Anderson.

But Judge certainly wasn’t the loudest player to comment on the suspension.

That honor would fall to White Sox reliever Joe Kelly, who was live on-air with 670 The Score’s Parkins & Spiegel show when news of the suspension was handed down.

New York Yankees fans sided with Josh Donaldson over simple decency

New York fans could’ve demanded their third baseman to act like a professional. Instead they stooped to his level.

Josh Donaldson has a documented history of pestering players in the White Sox clubhouse. He caused issues in 2018 as a member of the Blue Jays. Created more tension in 2021 with the Minnesota Twins. And barely a week ago, he caused a bench-clearing shoving match after an aggressive pick-off attempt on Tim Anderson ended with the shortstop taking a knee to the head while barely avoiding a cleat spike to the hand.

Donaldson taunted Tim Anderson twice Saturday by calling him “Jackie” — as in Robinson, one of baseball’s most unimpeachable icons — in what the third baseman says was an “inside joke” but is an unmistakably racist remark any way you try to explain it.

Anderson called the comments disrespectful. His manager, Tony La Russa, called them outright racist. New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the taunt was “somewhere [Donaldson] should not be going.” MLB is investigating.

But the story doesn’t end there. The next day, many fans within Yankee Stadium booed Anderson and chanted “Jackie” during a nationally televised game on ESPN.

To say it’s the wrong side to take is an understatement. Booing a Black man who explained in no uncertain terms a day earlier he felt disrespected by the “joke”? In the middle of a spat that’s only connected to The Bronx because Donaldson happens to play there now?

This is not playful banter between fans and opposing players. Yankees fans have already crossed the line too many times this season to earn the benefit of the doubt. That Anderson beautifully responded to those chants with a three-run homer into right field doesn’t mean all is well. That he declined to speak to the media after Sunday’s 5-0 victory in New York is even more telling.

Because what should he have to answer for, really? What more could he say about Donaldson’s antics over the years that his teammates haven’t already made clear?

“A f****** pest,” Lucas Giolito said of Donaldson in 2021.

“This game went through a period of time a lot of those comments were made, and I think we’re way past that…I guess [Donaldson] lives in his own world,” Yasmani Grandal said after the incident on Saturday.

“Usually you have inside jokes with people you get along with — not people who don’t get along at all. So that statement right there was complete bull****,” Sox closer Liam Hendriks added on Sunday.

There’s four years of bad blood between Donaldson and the Sox. As much as Yankees fans may want to believe they’re defending their guy, this really has nothing to do with anyone in New York.

In fact, they’re just making this worse.

When one of the few Black players in MLB is telling reporters how disrespected he feels by Donaldson’s taunting, when multiple teammates are backing him up and when no players have publicly sided with Donaldson’s version of events, there is no justification for anyone to continue harassing Anderson.

Those fans are either chanting “Jackie” because they know it’s racist, or they’re chanting it because they believe Anderson was wrong to take it as racist and believe the proper way to respond is by continuing to inflict more pain.

Anderson first made a comparison between his experience in baseball and Jackie Robinson’s experience in a 2019 profile by Stephanie Apstein in Sports Illustrated — which is where Donaldson pulled his “inside joke” from. The story touched on the lonely existence of being Black in today’s MLB. How racism remains pervasive in the game’s highest levels. How he wants to inspire more Black youth to pick up the game that’s taken him to superstardom and how he wants kids to embrace their own personalities while doing so, not to assimilate.

(It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that this profile ran after MLB swiftly suspended Anderson for using the N-word after he was targeted with a pitch by the Royals Brad Keller. But the league has now waited three days to rule on Donaldson, despite managers of both teams saying the comments crossed the line.)

“I kind of feel like today’s Jackie Robinson,” Anderson said to Apstein. “That’s huge to say. But it’s cool, man, because he changed the game, and I feel like I’m getting to a point to where I need to change the game.”

This is the basis for Donaldson’s “inside joke” — that Tim Anderson feels isolated as a Black man, even as one of the best players in the league, and wants to make sure others don’t have a similar experience.

Yankees fans threw it all right back in his face because Donaldson wears the pinstripes. They could’ve demanded their own third baseman conduct himself like a professional.

Instead, they eagerly, and despicably, stooped to his level.

Tim Anderson responds to boos from Yankees fans with three-run HR, says they should shut the [expletive] up

Tim Anderson got the last laugh on Yankees fans.

Tim Anderson had the most perfect response to the boos from New York Yankees fans.

On Sunday, Anderson smacked home a three-run shot for the Chicago White Sox to widen their lead to 5-0 in the eighth inning. While the home run is a gorgeous one, it’s not the story here. What is is what Anderson did after the three-run shot.

While rounding the bases, Anderson shushed the crowd — who had booed him all night — with a finger to his lips. Then, after crossing home plate, Anderson — within earshot of the camera — essentially told Yankees fans to shut the hell up, but more emphatically than that.

Warning: NSFW language in the tweet below.

Oh boy!

This all comes after Anderson and Yankees designated hitter Josh Donaldson got into it on Saturday in an incident that sparked a benches-clearing brawl. The reason? Donaldson made a racist comment to Anderson, calling him “Jackie” in reference to the great Jackie Robinson.

When Anderson stepped up to the plate on Sunday, he was booed heartily by Yankees fans, which is what prompted the White Sox shortstop’s reaction after his home run in the eighth inning.

It seems as Anderson and the White Sox got the last laugh here on Yankees fans, as Chicago bested New York 5-0 and won the series, becoming the first visiting team to do so at Yankees Stadium this season.

Dylan Cease perfectly predicted a Tim Anderson home run while mic’d up for the White Sox

‘Bro there ain’t gonna be any home runs today’

Dylan Cease is not exactly known for being a loudmouth. One of the quieter players in the White Sox clubhouse, Cease is talented enough to let his game do the talking.

That’s gone quite well so far this year, too, with the Cy Young candidate putting up a healthy 2.48 ERA and 0.93 WHIP with 39 strikeouts on 10 walks in 29 innings.

Yet, for some reason, the White Sox decided to put a microphone on Cease in the dugout for Tuesday’s 3-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Despite it being a dreadfully cold and misty night on the North Side, Cease let loose a prediction that will be hard to top this year: he nailed not only that Tim Anderson would hit a home run, but called out exactly where it would land in the Wrigley Field bleachers.

Even teammate Lucas Giolito didn’t think it was possible given the weather—the ace simply predicted a base hit to right. Instead, Anderson obliterated a first-pitch cutter straight over the Sloan sign in right like Cease said he would.

It might not be the most famous called shot in Wrigley Field’s history, but it’s certainly up there.

Considering Anderson’s over 1.5 total base prop at Tipico was set at +112, we might need Cease to start speaking up more.

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Arozarena, de Tampa, evita el toque y a los fans le encantó

Randy Arozarena de Tampa sabe cómo hacer las cosas emocionantes en las rutas hacia las bases. ¿Se acuerdan cuando se robó home durante un juego de playoffs el año pasado contra los Boston Red Sox? Eso estuvo muy cool. Ah! ¿Y se acuerdan esa carrera …

Randy Arozarena de Tampa sabe cómo hacer las cosas emocionantes en las rutas hacia las bases.

¿Se acuerdan cuando se robó home durante un juego de playoffs el año pasado contra los Boston Red Sox? Eso estuvo muy cool.

Ah! ¿Y se acuerdan esa carrera ganadora que anotó en un juego de la Serie Mundial ante los Dodgers en el 2020? Eso también estuvo super increíble.

Pues Arozarena se volvió a divertir yendo hacia la base ayer en Chicago cuando encontró una forma impresionante de evitar el toque del shortstop de los White Sox, Tim Anderson, quien debió haberlo ponchado fácilmente.

Chequen esto:

Traducción.- Mamá, ¿puedes venir por mi? Rando Arozarena está haciendo cosas locas hacia las bases otra vez

¡Tan bueno!

A Twitter le encnantó.

Traduccíón.- Qué jugada

Traducción.- ¿Qué?

Traducción.- Randy se tropezó y de todos modos le salió

Traducción.- Cosas así… amo los deportes

 

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Why I’m riding with the White Sox all the way to the World Series

2005 will be an even more distant memory come October.

I can’t remember the last time there were this many talented, deep teams in baseball.

For example, there are the Blue Jays and reigning MVP runner-up Vladimir Guerrero Jr. In Tampa Bay, Randy Arozarena and friends haven’t lost any steam. The Dodgers — who are clearly in possession of baseball’s lone infinite Bag of Holding — will always be a factor as long as they have Mookie Betts and Trea Turner, and Freddie Freeman. (Oh my goodness.)

Lest I forget, there are also the Astros, Yankees, Padres, and Brewers, among other potential powerhouses. Phew.

Which, look: These teams are all well and good. And I certainly respect the preseason baseball sentiments of some of my colleagues defending them. I get it. I do.

They’re smart, but most of them are so very, very wrong: The White Sox are about to have a dream season.

Come on: You cannot argue with stellar center/right fielders that wear Adidas Samba shoes at the tender age of 34.

A.J. Pollock, take a bow, sir.

Look at that casual fit! That’s a .355 on-base percentage and 137 OPS+ outfit if I ever saw one.

On a serious note, if you want to seem baseball smart to your casual sports-watching friends, you’ll tell them the White Sox might possess the deepest lineup in baseball. A lineup that features Tim Anderson, Luis Robert, Jose Abreu, Yasmani Grandal, Eloy Jiménez, Yoan Moncada, and of course, Pollock. Whoops, sorry. I’m out of breath.

Robert, especially: The inarguable best player the Sox roster — an elite centerfielder that hits for power — is criminally underrated as an MVP candidate by Tipico Sportsbook. +1500 odds (sixth-best overall) is an absolute steal for a player of Robert’s gifts. After some poor injury luck to start his career, if Robert plays in a majority of the Sox’s games this season, he’s unquestionably walking away with hardware. He’ll carry the Sox the entire year.

As far as the starting rotation, the initial temporary loss of Lance Lynn to knee surgery hurts, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better one-two punch than Lucas Giolito and Dylan Cease. They are more than capable of holding the fort down.

Cease, in particular, who possesses some of the filthiest, most electric stuff in all of baseball, is also curiously being somewhat overlooked for his first career Cy Young. The 26-year-old has struggled with his command, and those issues might still yet come back to haunt him.

Call it a hunch: He’s a polished pitcher now and will be untouchable for the majority of the next seven (yes, seven) months. Take those paltry +1200 odds for the AL Cy Young and run with them.

Run and don’t stop running, Forrest!

Now, ultimately, I know a lot can happen in baseball. A 162-game season opens up a lot of opportunities for pitfalls. Heaven only knows the White Sox have plenty of experience with walking into traps and general misfortune.

But this is the year. This is the season a top-flight lineup with minimal holes, a stellar rotation with two aces, and the arguable best bullpen in baseball led by reigning Reliever of the Year, Liam Hendriks, pieces it together. This team is so dang good top to bottom; not even Tony La Russa could screw it up. They have an answer for every contender and their manager. (Don’t ask me to elaborate.)

I want that +1000 for the South Siders to win the World Series, and I’m never looking back. After the 2005 title that may or may not have happened, maybe people will actually remember this eventual season full of achievement and glory.

Roll with the 2022 White Sox across the board. You can thank me later.

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The best moments from Tim Anderson’s insanely cool walk-off home run in the ‘Field of Dreams’ game

Tim Anderson is the coolest player in baseball.

Tim Anderson was already the coolest player in baseball, but Thursday night’s game against the Yankees just solidified it.

Anderson hit a walk-off home run to send the White Sox to a 9-8 victory over the Yankees. It was Anderson who put the spectacular finish on the game in the bottom of the 9th with the most appropriate ending for Major League Baseball’s ‘Field of Dreams’ experience.

He also did it in the coolest way possible. He knew as soon as the ball left the bat. He just started walking the bases, signaled ‘it’s over” and made it back to home to celebrate with his team.

The experience couldn’t have ended any better. Well, at least if you’re not a Yankees fan, anyway.

Here’s a look at the coolest moments from Anderson’s walk-off.