Via Allahpundit, the Chinese pitchers beaned one U.S. player and hit four others during last night’s baseball game in retaliation for a couple of home plate collisions with the Chinese catchers. Bowling over a catcher at home may be rough, but it’s part of the game. Throwing a fastball at a batter’s head, on the other hand, is nearly criminal. Exit question: James Fallows was embarrassed by his gauche countrymen yelling “the ever-classy ‘U – S – A! U – S – A!'” cheer at the game last night. Maybe he’s just disappointed they didn’t burst into even classier chants of ‘O – BA – MA!’? After all, Obama is “a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions”–if he does say so himself.
