Kansas City at Twins. Twins 6, Royals 3.

We've discussed Crazy Pepe's Chug and Toss quite a bit this year—any number of our pitchers have engaged in some high-spirited bouts of the game this season. But Batgirl feels she has erred, for in her posts she seems to have glamorized CPC&T, and that is something one should never do. For, as we have seen tonight, there is a darker angle to Crazy Pepe's game, one which has caused it be banned in six countries.

Crazy Pepe's Chug and Toss, as regular readers know, involves chugging as much of your favorite beverage as you can and then throwing a ball ninety miles an hour wherever the heck you feel like it. If all goes well, before the night is done, you've beaned six or seven people.

But every once in awhile, a condition develops described in medical journals as "Crazy Pepe Rage," in which the body of the person who is chugging and tossing becomes slowly overwhelmed by the humor choler, which, according to medieval physicians, causes one to become peevish, irascible, and extremely pissed off. No one knows for sure what causes Crazy Pepe Rage—some say it is the chugging, some the tossing, some think it is something in the combination of chugging and tossing—but what is clear is that every once in a while in a game that celebrates fun and freedom and chugging and tossing, things go Way Too Far.

Like tonight. Here, J.C. Romero was having a perfectly respectable bout of CPC&T. There were no wild pitches or walks, unfortunately, which most really satisfying rounds have, but those two hit batsmen were something really gorgeous, something to be really proud of, something that would have made the venerable Crazy Pepe himself stand up and say Cheers!

But perhaps Gardy sensed something in J.C.'s posture, perhaps it was the wild look in his eyes, perhaps his skin took on the characteristic yellow tint of someone overcome with the humor so closely identified with bile. For right after the second hit batter, Gardy turned to Steve Liddle and said, "I think this round of Crazy Pepe's Chug and Toss is about to go Way Too Far." So Gardy went out to pull him and then, well, things got a little dark.

I don't want to go into too many details about what happened—let's just say J.C. started walking off the mound and as Gardy passed him he decided to make one more toss. As J.C. stormed into the dugout, Steve Liddle tried to stop him--I know you are suffering from Crazy Pepe Rage, he was going to say, but let's take it easy and do some deep meditative breathing like the Crazy Pepe Rage experts say. But JC would not have it. There was some finger pointing, there was some yelling, there were words said that would have made Crazy Pepe—really, a very mild-mannered chap—blush.

The thing that is very important about Crazy Pepe Rage is that you stop chugging and/or tossing immediately, because then things might go Way Way Too Far (see: tossing ball at Gardy) and Batgirl fears that when he went into the clubhouse JC Romero continued to chug/toss. We cannot be sure of course, but one thing is certain—as Kyle Lohse watched JC storm his way into the showers, he smiled to himself and muttered happily, "Who's Tantrum McSpazzyPants now?"