Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton, Calvin Borel and Oddest Sports Spats of Decade

Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton and Calvin Borel were all involved in good 'ol spats yesterday. It was a day where frustration and discontent won out over cooler heads.

It was odd for me to see Gordon and Burton outside of their cars, let alone shoving each other. Then to see two jockeys go at it was even more bizarre. 

I decided to put the cap back on the bottle of absinthe and call it a day. But yesterday's events have me thinking of other peculiar fights. Here are some of the best from the past decade.

15. Barry Bonds vs. Jeff Kent

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ANAHEIM, CA - OCTOBER 19: Portrait of (L-R) Second Baseman Jeff Kent #21 and Left Fielder Barry Bonds #25 both of the San Francisco Giants during game one of the World Series against the Anaheim Angels on October 19, 2002 at Edison Field in Anaheim, Cali

Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent hated each other. That is fine considering no one else liked them much either. But in June of 2002, that feud escalated to a dugout skirmish. The two had to be separated by teammates.

Jeff Kent left the next season. Fans continued to hate the both of them. 

14. Carlos Zambrano vs. Michael Barrett

In 2007, Carlos Zambrano had started to decline. He was roughed up quite a few times and may have taken this out on his catcher. Either way, a dugout fight broke out between the two. 

Carlos Zambrano has never been known as a glue guy, a person that brings the team together. But now he is not even known as a decent pitcher.

The Cubs are truly cursed. 

13. Reds vs. Cardinals

This is a classic brawls for several reasons.

One, it began before even one pitch was thrown.

Secondly, it just seemed to go on forever. Just when you thought the players were assuaged, another fight would break out. 

12. Dragons vs. Chiefs

I had to include this for the fact that the pitcher threw the ball into the stands and hit a fan. Perhaps if he had shown such precision earlier, there would not have been a bench-clearing brawl.

11. Doug Christie and Wife vs. Rick Fox

I still remember this altercation. It went from the floor to the walkway leading to the locker rooms. What is missing in all of the videos of this fight is Doug Christie's wife, who gets into the action.

It is hard enough to act like a man in the face of other top athletes but to add your wife into the mix is just emasculating. 

10. Roger Clemens vs. Mike Piazza

Roger Clemens is a horrible human being.

I submit to you Exhibit One. Here you will see Mike Piazza hit a dribbler in the opening moments of the World Series.

Instead of fielding the ball, Clemens finds a broken bat and thinks to himself, that's dangerous, I think I will throw that at an unsuspecting Mike Piazza. 

9. Jeff Gordon vs. Jeff Burton

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FORT WORTH, TX - NOVEMBER 07: Jeff Burton, driver of the #31 Caterpillar Chevrolett, talks to the media as he walks from the infield care center after an incident with Jeff Gordon in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on N

You can find a recap of yesterday's events and the altercation between Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton here. Basically, Jeff Burton forgot how to operate a car at high speeds yesterday and clipped Gordon out of the race. 

That turned into a long walk for Gordon to meet Burton by the pits. As soon as the two locked eyes it turned into a slap fight.

Then they had to ride in the same ambulance as if they were two teenage brothers being forced into the same car by their mom...classic. 

8. Celtics vs. Heat

I had to include this for the fact that Kevin Garnett has been in the news recently for his remarks about Charlie Villanueva. 

This is evidence that KG is susceptible to "heat of the moment" syndrome. When the man loses his head, you do not want to be around. 

7. Calvin Borel vs. Javier Castellano

Yesterday, we got to see a bit of a jockey fight. This raised a couple of questions in my mind.

Foremost, though, was the fact that it took several people to hold back Calvin Borel. Aren't jockeys four feet tall and 50 pounds? Wasn't there a 10-year-old boy that could have separated the two? 

Either way, that is the last time Castellano cuts off another rider. Or not. I don't know. I'm not much into horse racing as I am into little people getting mad. 

6. WNBA Brawl

The fairer sex is supposed to be much more rational then we monsters. It was quite comforting to see women submit to aggression and just go at it.

Rumors were that ratings skyrocketed to two people watching the WNBA following this altercation. 

5. Miami vs. FIU

Football games always have their fair share of shoving matches. They rarely go anywhere, though. This one went somewhere—the whole field to be exact. 

This went from small skirmish to full on hootenanny real quick.

4. Cuban Baseball Brawl

Here we see an average baseball game turn into a game of tag. The pitcher starts the game by plucking the batter with one high and tight. The batter loses all sense of decorum and runs to confront the pitcher with bat in hand. 

The only winners in this one was us, the fans. 

3. Korean Baseball Fight

I wish I could tell you what this was all about. I wish I could break down the nuances that are presented in this video. Alas, I cannot. All I know is that it is awesome. 

If any of you do know, please include it in the comments along with your scathing reviews of this slide show. Thanks. 

2. Pedro Martinez and Don Zimmer

We knew that the Red Sox and Yankees hated each other. What was not clear was Pedro Martinez's disdain for the elderly.

Here is Don Zimmer trying to tell Petey about the good old days and Pedro throws him to the ground. That's just not how you respect your elders, young man. 

1. Ron Artest and The Palace

Ron "The Coo Coo Bird" Artest forgets to take his medication and goes medieval on the Pistons. Then he gets hit in the head with a soda and decides to take the fight to the expensive seats. 

Oh, Ron-Ron and your lovable violent streak, please never retire.