This week’s FanPulse question asked if bench-clearing brawls were ever okay. Most respondents strapped on their pith helmets and cried an enthusiastic YES:
Here in MarinersLand, we don’t get into scraps very often. Certainly not in recent years, helmed by the oversize plain white gravy boat full of CBD oil that is Scott Servais, whose Midwestern manners insist that his strongest form of retaliation is cutting you the smallest slice of shoofly pie. Seriously, though, the Mariners as an organization don’t tolerate fighting at their lower levels, at least; rumor has it that longtime employee, Everett manager Jose Moreno was supposedly suspended this year for his actions during a game against Eugene (Moreno and the Mariners later “parted ways”) described by many who saw it as “a beanball war.