Diego Costa just got an 8 game ban for telling the red he was going to “shit on your whore of a mother.”
The same is true - so far as I can tell - with ultramarathoners and trail runners. Perhaps because it’s a niche sport and the community of elite ultrarunners is small, but they all seem extremely competitive, but also very supportive of each other. The worst thing I’ve ever heard anyone say about another runner is that he’s “a little bit arrogant”. (But he still gets cheered when he wins.) I suspect ultrarunners see the mountains and the weather and the trail as their true opponents.
That’s going to lead to some fascinating trash talk. “You call yourself a mountain? I had a harder climb getting onto your mom last night!”
Did Costa ever follow through?
Was that a threat or a promise from a REALLY understanding fellow-fetishist?
To be clear: I wasn’t referring to framing a borderline call but rather a catch so far out of the zone that even the announcers can see it and hope the ump doesn’t notice that the ball ended up in a different location from where it was originally caught.
I’m not sure I’d always assume that’s always voluntary on the part of the catcher though. I think sometimes one’s glove may end up over the corner of the plate out of habit, when a pitch doesn’t cross the part of the plane he expected it to.
Even though the OP mentioned teams only I’ll mention some players because what they hey, “when in Rome”: in hockey, we have Ulf Samuelsson, Claude Lemieux, Chris Simon.
There could be a few others…
In the Stanley Cup Play-offs, players shake hands at the end of each play-off series. I always wonder if they ever try to sneak in chirps during that.
Basketball is the only team sport I can think of where after every game the majority of players shake hands/high five/say hi.
And there’s this commenter from Quora