Barb’s Burblings

So in the Rays-White Sox game just now, Willie Aybar was at bat. He either made contact with the ball, or the ball bounced off the catcher, but it wound up careening down the first base line, fair. So Aybar took off for first as Thornton, the White Sox pitcher, ran over to field the ball. They wound up basically colliding (which counted as a tag, so Aybar was out). But what was really nice was that as Aybar bounced away from the force of the collision, Thornton made a “You OK?” gesture. Then Aybar came over and fist-bumped him to show that they were cool. I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for bench-clearing brawls, but seeing stuff like this is just really nice. They’re both playing hard, but they’re both people. Just really nice to see.