Sep 20th 2008 1:52PM by Tom Fornelli (author feed)
If you weren’t already aware, the Tigers and Indians had a little incident last night after Miguel Cabrera hit his 36th homer of the season, and Fausto Carmona followed it up by hitting Gary Sheffield with a pitch on the elbow. Now, as anybody who has paid attention to The Sheff throughout his career already knows, Mr. Sheffield is an angry man.

Of course, Gary controlled his temper for a little bit, choosing only to glare at Carmona as he walked to first base, but once Carmona tried to pick him off, Gary charged at him, the benches cleared, and all the pushing and shoving that accomplishes nothing followed. Still, even though the fight ended on the field, that doesn’t mean it’s over in Gary’s head. After the game Gary channeled his inner WWE wrestler, and sent a message to Carmona that soon the 24-inch pythons will run wild on them. Oh yeah!”If I hit two home runs, normally guys send a message to me,” Sheffield said. “I wasn’t the one hitting the home runs. Just because someone else hit a home run on you, don’t take it out on me.

“Anytime you do that, we’re going to have problems. I don’t care who you are, how big you are. Anytime I get hit because you’re upset about something else, we’re going to deal with it during the game, after the game, or whenever you want to deal with it.”Continue Reading