Found June 14, 2009 on Pacman Jonesin':
Nothing spices up the boring middle of the baseball season better than a good old-fashioned verbal beanball war between players on rival teams.  The Mets‘ Francisco Rodriguez and the Yankees‘ Brian Bruney would certainly seem to subscribe to this view, given the way they’ve been going at each other. It all started Friday night, after the [...]
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