it is not funny
but it’s hard not to chuckle
fortnight for fight night
As Guardians broadcaster Tom Hamilton intoned, “Down goes Anderson!”
Tom Hamilton’s call of the Jose Ramirez-Tim Anderson fight on Cleveland radio is the stuff of legend.
“DOWN GOES ANDERSON! DOWN GOES ANDERSON!”
“It’s not funny,” Guardians manager Terry Francona said after the game, “but coming in (to the clubhouse) and listening to Hammy, it’s hard not to chuckle.”
Call me soft but I think Anderson should be benched by the league for two weeks. A fortnight for a fight night. He should get seven games for starting it and another seven for losing. That’ll teach him to square up like he’s Sonny Liston.
So reads the article Tim Anderson’s nightmare season takes a KO in Cleveland By Jon Greenberg in the Athletic, Aug. 6, 2023.
I don’t follow baseball like I used to but I do follow baseball writing.
Anyone who can get the word fortnight into a story about baseball deserves recognition.
I found it fascinating that shoving fortnight into the google, I found myself on webpages where the discussion about that the word FORTNITE, which was the name of a game that took over the world wide web for its 15 minutes of fame a bit ago, was based on a centuries old REAL WORLD, fortnight.
This discussion pointed out that it meant 2 weeks or 14 days and writers like Shakespeare, Dickens and Twain all used the word FORTNIGHT in their writing and it HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH the game!
How ’bout that!
But I digress.
Aside from that, Mr. Greenberg’s chronicling of the downs and downs of this season by Chicago White Sox infielder Tim Anderson is, well, funny.
Fighting in any sport is not to be condoned.
But …
But sometimes you get to look past the fight to what was going on before the fight and, well, it’s that quote from Guardians manager Terry Francona said after the game, “it’s not funny, … [but] it’s hard not to chuckle.”
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