Scurvy landlubbers banned from flinging first cannonball at Mets match for scrap at Empire State Tower. Arr!
2024-04-19
Arr, me hearties! The New York Mets be like, "Nay to Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia! No pitch for ye scallywags after yer scuffle!" Ye can't be throwin' fists and balls in the same day, says I! Aye, the baseball gods have spoken!
Avast ye landlubbers! The lead-up to the Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia fight at Brooklyn's Barclays Center be quite the spectacle, with more drama than a mutinous crew on the high seas. Two promotional events in New York took a turn for the worse, me hearties.Haney and Garcia were set to battle for the WBC junior welterweight title, but Garcia's excess poundage scuppered that plan. The fight be on, but the belt be out of reach, arr!At the Empire State Building, the two fighters had a skirmish that would make Blackbeard blush, leading the New York Mets to cancel their first pitch plans faster than a marauding pirate ship in a squall.Garcia's camp claimed the Mets feared more trouble, so they walked the plank on the first pitch idea. Haney was reportedly incensed, but Garcia was still willing to take the field.After much ballyhoo and bluster, the Mets denied the boxers their moment in the sun, leaving Garcia to declare, "F--- the Mets!" All's well that ends well, though, as Garcia ponied up the doubloons for his weighty transgression, and the fight be on like Donkey Kong. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!