The Rookies

Because the above video has a pizza roll’s chance in Charles Barkley’s vicinity of being on YouTube later this morning, the image below should tell you why choosy bloggers choose GIF:

YOUUUK fail.

Yeah, Kevin Youkilis sort of lost his mind tonight. But it was smart, maybe, as one conspiracy theorist noted: The Tigers’ starter, Rick Porcello, had worked a clean first inning before dinging The Greek God of Unfortunate Goatees in the second, touching off a brawl that got both the flipper and flippee tossed, and perhaps keying the Red Sox to a 7-5 victory.

Throwing a helmet at the pitcher is dumb, though, might (should?) get Youkilis a suspension, too. A little post-game tweeting probably won’t help matters:

Before you get angry?

I have no idea what MLB protocol is for a player who gets hit, charges the mound, throws a helmet at a backpedaling pitcher, and then fires miffed missives into the Internet ether asking about whether the beanball was intentional, but I believe Roger Goodell has suspended Youkilis without pay until 2017.

I should note that Youkilis’ account doesn’t appear on this independently verified list of athletes on Twitter, but also that it could very well be him; if it’s not, my apologies. Also, the link to this picture is for Joba.