Friday, September 27, 2013

Bagwell would have fought Gomez at first

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.