Word: piazzas
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...Amount Roger Clemens was fined for hurling a splintered bat in Mike Piazza's direction...
...Gotham is upset that Torre is shielding Clemens by pitching the notorious headhunter only in Yankee Stadium, where the American League's designated-hitter rule says pitchers can't bat and therefore can't get plunked. Mets fans know and Yankees fans suspect that Clemens purposely beaned Piazza during a midsummer game in the Bronx, and in this eye-for-an-eye city, there's a law about facing the music. Says Knoblauch of the Series: "I hope everyone comes out of it safe," but he speaks for himself. Speaking for New York is Mike Padden, a legal-aid lawyer...
...Yankee, Andy Pettitte, would, when his turn came, stare down the same tunnel with a look of smoldering Sicilian sanpaku. He looked like Rudolph Valentino playing a dark, wordless, dangerous loverboy. Valentino beat Winters. Mike Piazza flied out at exactly the stroke of midnight, and the Yankees took the World Series in five games...
...worthwhile to have a postmortem on one moment of notable idiocy that occurred early on, when the Yankee pitcher, Roger Clemens, delivered a pitch that shattered Mike Piazza's bat, the broken barrel of which came flying out toward the mound to be fielded by Clemens. Clemens caught the jagged piece of bat and threw it toward the first base line...
...wonder everyone hates the media. Clemens was not trying either to hit or to menace Piazza. Clemens had a broken bat come flying at him and he caught it and threw it off the field as if to say, "Get this damn thing out of my face." The idea that he would try to hit Piazza (only the third batter he faced) and risk getting thrown out of the game is plain stupid. Clemens didn't even realize Piazza was in the basepath. In the event, the umpire saw no reason to eject Clemens. But a media circus...