14 Thoughts Buster Posey Probably Had During the Nationals-Giants Brawl
In the eighth inning of an otherwise perfectly boring Memorial Day matchup between the National and the Giants yesterday afternoon, San Francisco relief pitcher Hunter Strickland drilled Bryce Harper with a first-pitch fastball, kicking off a benches-clearing, drag-down, knockout, good old-fashioned base-brawl. Punches were thrown. A few actually connected. It was your classic donnybrook. A brouhaha. A real fracas. …Sorry.
Point is: the two gentlemen had a disagreement, frustrations were vented, and suspensions are presumably on their way. And Buster Posey? Yeah, Buster Posey wanted no part of any of it. Dude practically stood there with his hands on his hips as his pitcher took one (or two, or three) on the chin from the Nationals MVP.
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After the game, the Giants catcher didn’t exactly apologize for not having his teammates’ backs out there, telling reporters, “Those are some big guys tumbling around on the ground… It’ll be a little dangerous to get in there sometimes.”
And to be fair, for a guy still working his way back from a concussion, not wanting to get hurt on account of some reheated three-year-old beef makes sense. (This is a dude who once managed to hurt himself sliding into third.) But after thoroughly analyzing the footage, we’ve got a few more ideas as to just what was going through Posey’s head while he stood there watching yesterday’s brawl with the rest of the paying fans.
1. “Maybe if I stand real still, they’ll forget I’m here. Or does that only work with a T-Rex?”
2. “This’ll teach Strickland for not inviting me to his family BBQ.”
3. “We’re 100% sure Rougned Odor is still on the Rangers, right?”
4. “If hot dogs come in packs of ten, and buns come in packs of eight, how many packs of each do I have to buy to make that even out? You can do this, Buster.”
5. “Now I get why they didn’t want to allow dudes into those Wonder Woman screenings.”
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7. “Five! Five bags of buns, four packs of hot dogs.”
8. “So, hold on, if Dale Cooper is still in the Black Lodge, what the hell was in that glass box? I should really rewatch Season Two. Right after this.”
9. “Shit. Did I forget to put my champagne popsicles in the freezer before the game?”10
11. “‘I object to violence, because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.’ – Mahatma Gandhi” (Posey is deep, brah.)
12. “Wait. Does Lil Yachty think Squidward plays the flute?”
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14. “What if Seinfeld was still on TV?”
