Outlawed Baseball

Here is an interview I did with Casey Garrison a couple hours before last night's Outlaws game at Nettleton Stadium. This should answer all the questions I've been getting about the bench-clearing brawl with the Yuma Scorpions in Arizona earlier this week that wasn't captured in any video or photography.

Just to set up here where Garrison will pick the story up from — it's telling how the bad blood actually started boiling. The common misperception is that a "beanball" starts these sorts of things. But they usually happen more frequently in moments like this that lead up to the flashpoint: When Garrison merely slid in for a double two innings before the fracas went down, the first elements were put in place.

Illustrating the level of seediness that exists in pro baseball in late August, Scorpions shortstop Dionys Cesar began badgering Garrison about stealing pitch signals from the on-deck circle after Garrison reached base on a double (this is all according to Garrison right here as the interview starts out). That set the tone for the string of events that followed, capped by Garrison charging the mound, as described by himself in full detail here...