Perhaps you saw Brian McCann be the superhero that Gotham deserves, wrestling the title of Keeper of the Unwritten Rules of Baseball away from Chris Carpenter, and block the Brewers' Carlos Gomez from crossing the plate so he could start a fight. I actually did see it, as the whole sequence was part of the 12 minutes of Braves baseball I watched this season.
Well, in the aftermath, someone asked Billy Wagner what would have happened had Carlos Gomez done that to him, because of course they did.
Wagner said if it had happened when he played for the Astros, Gomez
wouldn’t have made it past first base because Jeff Bagwell would have
started a fight with him. Old school.
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
