The last time I was involved in a fight during a sports game I was 10 and the person I fought was a girl named Heidi.
Heidi The Tetherball Champ.
I had just beaten our Reigning Champ and boy was she mad.
Actually psychotic is a more accurate description of Heidi that afternoon.
Anyway, at some point after I was called the winner (I may have been dancing…. I may have been singing, I don’t remember) she took the ball, beaned me with it and then tried to choke me with the tetherball rope and I AM NOT KIDDING.
What followed on my part wasn’t considered self-defense so I had to spend the next two days in the library during recess.
So look what happens today at a Seattle Mariners baseball game.
Benches cleared during M’s game scuffle
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Jason Ellison stood up for a teammate. Miguel Batista took one for the team. And Ichiro Suzuki? All he could do was laugh about his role in a benches-clearing shoving match.
I’m a Mariners Fan and all I can say is…way to take it for the team Batista- and Ellision…way to be there Ellison because that other guy pulled a sissy stunt that Heidi The Tether Ball Psycho wouldn’t have stooped to.
She tried to brain me….yes, she tried to hang me from the teatherball pole…yes.
To her credit at least Heidi The Tetherball Psycho didn’t push me like…
a little girl.
amm
Irregular Bones 
Well you cannot expect a bunch of sissy baseball players to fight as well as a ten year old tetherball champ.
I know it is wrong but I find her trying to hang you with the tetherball rope hllarious.
ahem… I’ve never understood why they call it a “brawl”, actually I’ve never understood why they call it a “fight” or even a “scuffle” when the benches clear in baseball. The last time I’ve seen a fist connect was when Nolan Ryan bounced a few off the top of a dude’s head, or when that Dude coldcocked his teammate a couple of weeks ago (have you noticed there are now more bench clearing incidents in baseball than there are in hockey. Same with basketball…).
I’m with Ichiro, I’m usually laughing when these guys start flailing their arms at each other… here’s what you’re supposed to do:
1) grab the other dude’s uniform, generally at the shoulder
2) punch each other in the face until the other guy apologizes.
I’d take you or Heidi in a hockey draft long before any of those guys in the photo.
Hi Max,
You know after she wacked me I just started to laugh and couldn’t stop- which only made her worse …plus I hated tetherball so I’m sure that looking back at it now- well, it’s still funny.
Even the hanging part.
Hey Gabriel!
I don’t know where Heidi is- probably a women’s prison somewhere- but if she’s not she HAS to have a talk with these guys.
Either that or she needs to teach them how to throw a punch.
(Myself, I can box..no, really it’s true-us tetherball chicks are tough)
amm
I agree with Feartheseeds– give me a good hockey game any day– those folks know how to entertain with a good fight.
Dear Lord. My sister’s name is Heidi (I swear) and she was not only a tether ball champ, she is evil. Evil, I tell you! She is not in a woman’s prison at the moment. I think America’s most Wanted is looking for her.
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If she’s on AMW’s list….I think I’ll stay away from tether ball poles for awhile.
Just to be on the safe side.
amm
I love Elsa Lanchester and I think the last 20 minutes of the Bride of Frankenstein are the best 20 minutes of film making EVER. There was one chick who had her head sewed on right.
Mari you’re so cute!
Now when I watch the Movie I’m going to laugh- you know, more then usual. Oh well, five more seconds of weird coming from me is a drop in the bucket around my house.
Seriously, the time Elsa was on the screen was FANTASTIC- ain’t a woman today whose been able to create a better monster then Elsa did.
amm