A Glorious, But Sticky, Anniversary

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Pine Tar Incident. The day when George Brett... just... completely... lost it. Here's a good article by Tim Kurkjian at ESPN.com about this classic. A snippet:

"Brett said he was sitting on the bench after the homer, and at the same time, the umpires were conferring at home plate.

"I had no idea what they were talking about," Brett said. "Then McClelland laid the bat on the ground, I looked at [teammate] Frank White on the bench and said, 'What the hell are they doing now?' Frank said, 'They're measuring for pine tar.' I turned to Frank and, I think, Vida Blue, and said, 'If they call out on that, I'm going to run out there and kill those SOBs.'"

They did call out on that. And thus, a legend is born.



It never gets old.