As someone who used to occasionally brawl in my wild youth I can confirm it's the short stocky kings you need to watch out for way more than the tall dudes.
Short dudes either become the funny sidekick who can talk their way out of a fight or they learn to fight and are forged by it.
Plus a shorter dude has a lot more advantages in a fight than a 6'5 twig.
Smaller target too With short guys its best to try to close the distance and pin them Punching down is surprisingly difficult, not to mention they can land easy hits on your abdomen.
I've taken hooks straight to my chin and barely even flinched while a graze on my temple left me dizzy. It really depends on how you get hit, not so much the force.
Sort of, I suppose. It's the puncher's chance. No matter how skilled you are or how tough you are, anybody can go down to the puncher's chance. The 4 move check still requires some strategy. No strategy in the puncher's chance.
Unironically and it's also far more difficult to anticipate than a punch. If you get your technique down, it's lightning quick. I've seen people get knocked out cold from well placed slaps.
Same lol. Watching again I think he thought the guy got too close to putting his glove right in front of his face while diving, could've broke his neck or something maybe?
Probably that it looked like he tried to tag his head but he didn't do anything wrong, it was a close play and he was just doing what he could to get the out.
Because leafs used to be famously violent and treated violence as part of our culture. Both national sports are 2 of the most consistently aggressive sports, hockey and lacrosse, and pre-cucking our military was highly skilled and known for committing many war crimes.
Kind of. The entire AL Central is awful this year. The Twins are the only team in the division with a record over .500, and they're 58-54. For reference, the Mariners, who are third in the AL West, are 59-52, and the Yankees, who are fourth in the AL East, are 58-53.
But since someone has to win the division, the 54-57 Guardians (54-56 prior to this game) are still in contention. Mathematically, so are the 44-68 (43-68 prior to this game) White Sox, but that's obviously a lot less likely. So both teams are still playing to win, despite being fricking terrible.
But none of that is really the point. Fights like this are barely a thing in baseball. Most bench-clearing brawls are actually bench-clearing "hold me back, bro"s. Two players squaring up and trying to fight for real happens maybe once a season across the entirety of Major League Baseball.
Plus, the players involved make the whole thing much funnier. Tim Anderson was a great player the past three seasons, but suffered a season-ending injury last August, and has been absolutely terrible this season. José Ramírez, on the other hand, is currently the undisputed best offensive third baseman in MLB. He's on pace to win his fifth Silver Slugger this year. So Anderson picking a fight with Ramírez just to get immediately dropped is top tier comedy.
Jose definitely started that fight. Said tim tagged him too hard or some shit, that he's always disrespecting the game. Tim dropping his glove was wild though.
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All time great boomer moment
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That was 30 years ago today! So said espn.
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Pure kino
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Whats this?
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46 y/o Nolan Ryan punching a 25 y/o who tried to fight him during a game. It's an all time baseball moment
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I'm a real American who likes real sports
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You're an honorary europoor. It's worse than the real thing, euros are born into their miserable existence but you chose it.
Baseball is one of the most American things along with illegal firearms, fake tits, and air conditioning.
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Only 2/4 of those are good things.
American Football is by far the most superior sport ever invented by Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry.
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Football shares a name with a certain Euro sport and so is by default emasculating
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The other football is far more boring, but dear god nearly any sport beats out baseball. I can't think of a less athletic or stimulating sport.
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Truly the height of athleticism
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I'd like to see your try to defend 600 pounds sprinting at you
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If I ate enough cheeseburgers to weigh 800 pounds I could do it
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Bongs prefer watching cricket for 30 hours
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bazball rocks mate
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can some boxing expert break it down to me how the short king landed that apparently technique less punch?
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Wild haymaker right to the chin. That's what can happen when you don't keep your hands up.
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is that the only way for tinycels like @SM to win??
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I was under the impression that he is tiny enough to be an ankle biter.
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As someone who used to occasionally brawl in my wild youth I can confirm it's the short stocky kings you need to watch out for way more than the tall dudes.
Short dudes either become the funny sidekick who can talk their way out of a fight or they learn to fight and are forged by it.
Plus a shorter dude has a lot more advantages in a fight than a 6'5 twig.
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Smaller target too With short guys its best to try to close the distance and pin them Punching down is surprisingly difficult, not to mention they can land easy hits on your abdomen.
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Yep to all this
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It doesn't look like he hit him that hard to me, i'm surprised that dropped him
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If you get the sweet spot it doesn't require a lot of force.
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Especially if you've never been really hit before. It's jarring.
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I've taken hooks straight to my chin and barely even flinched while a graze on my temple left me dizzy. It really depends on how you get hit, not so much the force.
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Yeah maybe he did catch his temple there, thought it was just a graze across the jaw at first
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You hit the right spot of the jaw it can be like a knife through butter.
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so was that like 'scholar's mate' or 'fool's mate'?
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Sort of, I suppose. It's the puncher's chance. No matter how skilled you are or how tough you are, anybody can go down to the puncher's chance. The 4 move check still requires some strategy. No strategy in the puncher's chance.
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It's amazing how quit that guy was to take of his gloves and start wildin' when he clearly didn't know how to fight (and has a glass jaw).
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Found a better angle
https://x.com/DolansThoughts/status/1688002474072756224
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Yeah he hit him right in the sweet spot where the jaw connects. Game over.
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I'd bet Dominicans' punch to height ratio is insane
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Here.
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so what's the defence to it to land a proper counter jab? guard or slip?
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Keep a guard up to protect your jaw and let the punch fizzle on your shoulder. Counter can be a well placed uppercut while the opponent is open.
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btw an open handed slap gets you more humiliation points compared to a punch. a genuine rarity these days
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Unironically and it's also far more difficult to anticipate than a punch. If you get your technique down, it's lightning quick. I've seen people get knocked out cold from well placed slaps.
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based and diaz pilled
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Leverage
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He's probably not even that short. Baseball players are usually fricking huge. Probably from the roids.
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baseball has fights all the time. they just never amount to anything
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Minor league hockey has better and more frequent fights than an average MLB game
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I agree, just felt like pointing out that baseball has “fights” that is just a bunch of dudes running out of the dugout for nothing.
edit Baseball is the most boring btw by a mile
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Golf
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This is one of the few that actually led to blows. usually they just run out and soy face at eachother for a couple minutes
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flattened him lmao
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tf even happened there that made the runner mad?
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This is what anthropologists call "a nigga moment."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pj9Hzs-vBLE
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Boondocks was too based for this world
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Them mag dumping at point blank and missing every shot always gets me.
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IDK, don't watch Baseball because I'd literally rather be doing anything else.
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Same lol. Watching again I think he thought the guy got too close to putting his glove right in front of his face while diving, could've broke his neck or something maybe?
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He said "your peepee small"
The other said "your peepee can't even satisfy a trans girl"
And then it kicked off.
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Probably that it looked like he tried to tag his head but he didn't do anything wrong, it was a close play and he was just doing what he could to get the out.
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That's more or less what I was thinking after watching again, but yeah wtf is he supposed to do? Seems like a normal play to me.
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hmm maybe spar more
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That was a nasty haymaker
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How come they only let them fight in hockey?
Is it mayo privilege?
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The black man has been kept down by white supremacy for far too long
I can't wait for mayocide tbh, it's going to be so cool when all sports are just black dudes going at it with no rules
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Because leafs used to be famously violent and treated violence as part of our culture. Both national sports are 2 of the most consistently aggressive sports, hockey and lacrosse, and pre-cucking our military was highly skilled and known for committing many war crimes.
Now we apologize 5X a day to our alcoholic gods.
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I feel your pain lmao
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they have paddings to tank and ice to put on swellings
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Aren't both these teams in like 14th place?
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Yeah and the guy who landed the punch is one of Cleveland's few good players
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Kind of. The entire AL Central is awful this year. The Twins are the only team in the division with a record over .500, and they're 58-54. For reference, the Mariners, who are third in the AL West, are 59-52, and the Yankees, who are fourth in the AL East, are 58-53.
But since someone has to win the division, the 54-57 Guardians (54-56 prior to this game) are still in contention. Mathematically, so are the 44-68 (43-68 prior to this game) White Sox, but that's obviously a lot less likely. So both teams are still playing to win, despite being fricking terrible.
But none of that is really the point. Fights like this are barely a thing in baseball. Most bench-clearing brawls are actually bench-clearing "hold me back, bro"s. Two players squaring up and trying to fight for real happens maybe once a season across the entirety of Major League Baseball.
Plus, the players involved make the whole thing much funnier. Tim Anderson was a great player the past three seasons, but suffered a season-ending injury last August, and has been absolutely terrible this season. José Ramírez, on the other hand, is currently the undisputed best offensive third baseman in MLB. He's on pace to win his fifth Silver Slugger this year. So Anderson picking a fight with Ramírez just to get immediately dropped is top tier comedy.
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Jose definitely started that fight. Said tim tagged him too hard or some shit, that he's always disrespecting the game. Tim dropping his glove was wild though.
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No idea. If you like one sport Twitter decides you must like every single boring sport in existance.
I do like a good fight tho
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Even when all the teams in the division suck, we still hate each other!
Source: Sox fan…yes, it's been a year to forget
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dude got dropped
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RAMIIREEEEEEEZZZZZ
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Well we can't all run back and forth pointlessly for 90 minutes.
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