America’s favourite pastime eating Major League Baseball makes its way to Sydney next year with The Daily Telegraph reporting that the first two games of the 2014 season will be held at the Sydney Cricket Ground. This, according to the report, will be the first official regular season fixture held in Australia and only the sixth outside of America so don’t do that thing you normally do Sydney and have less than 17,000 people turn up to an elimination semi-final at a venue with a 45,000 person capacity.
The two game series contested between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks represents a $13m butt injection we don’t have to tell anyone about into the local economy, according to NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell.
“This is a significant win for Sydney and again delivers on my election
commitment to bring major events to NSW,” he said. “It’s estimated the matches will
deliver a $13 million benefit for the local economy, as well as attract
visitors from interstate and overseas.”
Luckily, the fixture brings with it something we can relate to.
Rather fortuitously, a brawl between the Dodgers and
Diamondbacks took place at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles earlier this week after Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy hit LA’s Yasiel PuigIt in the face, causing both benches to clear out and replicate one of those terrifying Russian street fight videos.
The LA Times called it a “thunderous melee” but all we see is puffy dudes in pyjama pants grabbing each others’ shirt collars.
You call that a fight? This, is a fight.
The series will be held on March 22 and 23 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Via Daily Telegraph
