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Offline formerlurker

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Greatest sports meltdown and temper trantrums...
« on: January 25, 2009, 12:51:06 PM »


In one of the ugliest scenes in recent sports history, Indiana's Ron Artest charges into the stands and fights with Pistons fans during a 2004 brawl in Detroit.



Say it, don't spray it! Roberto Alomar protests a called third strike by John Hirschbeck during a late-season game against Toronto in 1996 by letting fly with a little saliva on the plate ump. Alomar earns a five-game ban for spit-gate.


Any coach can protest a bad call by stomping up and down and letting loose with a profanity-laced tirade. But Bobby Knight takes the art of protesting to a new level in 1985 when the famed Indiana hoops coach gets ejected after flinging a chair across the court.


Was it 'roid rage? In one of the most bizarre moments in World Series history, Roger Clemens throws a shard of Mike Piazza's broken bat in the direction of the Met catcher in Game 2 of the 2000 Fall Classic ...


When players get the Bronx cheer, they usually don't return the favor. Not so in the case of pitcher Jack McDowell. After feeling the heat in the second game of a doubleheader sweep against the White Sox in July of 1995, BlackJack flips Yankee fans the bird as he walks off the field. McDowell wins 15 games that season, but his gesture is what defines his first - and last - year in the Big Apple.



… and barrels into Boston ace Pedro Martinez - who promptly tosses the 72-year-old to the ground.


http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/galleries/sports_greatest_meltdowns/sports_greatest_meltdowns.html#ph5



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Re: Greatest sports meltdown and temper trantrums...
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2009, 01:55:19 PM »
I can think of a few that are equally good (or bad?):

--Hal McRae's clubhouse tirade:


--Phil Wellman "going commando" on the mound:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZUKHtW7vg[/youtube]

--Woody Hayes goin gangsta on an OPPOSING player: (name him for five bonus points)


--And last, but not least, Carlos Perez versus the water cooler--and the water cooler looked like it won.

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Re: Greatest sports meltdown and temper trantrums...
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 02:08:22 PM »
Rob Dibble putting Lou Pinella in a head-lock is up there.

I'll never forget Deion Sanders and Andre Rison slapping each other like girls in the facemask.
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Re: Greatest sports meltdown and temper trantrums...
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2009, 02:41:24 PM »
I could never understand the brouhuahua about Woody Hayes feebly striking that football player from Clemson.

Woody Hayes at the time was a very old man, and old men sometimes lose it.

But because of their Great Age and all the impressive things they did in their lives, it's sort of--please notice the "sort of"--excusable.

It's not the same thing as the former Nebraska coach Bill Callahan hitting that player from Oklahoma; he should have been (but was not) fired for that.

It's been a very long time, but I once saw a video (on television, not on the computer; this was a very long time ago) of the event with Woody Hayes, and it didn't seem like to me the Ohio State football coach did hardly, if any, damage.

Woody Hayes despite this too-harsh treatment (losing his job and retiring in humiliation) remains the second-best coach in the history of college football, after only Bear Bryant, and I have a sort of sense that God feels the same way.

It was way too much, this over-reaction.
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Re: Greatest sports meltdown and temper trantrums...
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2009, 05:54:52 PM »
Quote from: Odin's Hand on January 25, 2009, 02:08:22 PM
Rob Dibble putting Lou Pinella in a head-lock is up there.

My all time fave:  Nolan Ryan slapping a headlock on Robin Ventura and pummeling his forehead into mashed potatoes.



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Re: Greatest sports meltdown and temper trantrums...
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Re: Greatest sports meltdown and temper trantrums...
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2009, 08:18:02 AM »
Quote from: Carl on January 31, 2009, 07:56:05 PM
Going to show my old age but I watched this as a kid....

http://www.wpix.com/landing_shea_memories/?Pete-Rose-vs-Bud-Harrelson=1&blockID=70325&feedID=1456

So did I, neighbor . . . So did I.  I've been a Mets' fan, well, since I was in kindergarten, which just happened to be the fall of 1969.
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