If I’m making a list of athletes who I want not want vowing revenge against me, Gary Sheffield would be right at the top. So I wouldn’t want to be Fausto Carmona or the rest of the Cleveland Indians after they were involved in a bench-clearing brawl with the mercurial Tigers on Friday night.

In terms of baseball fights, this was a pretty good one - actually punches, not the usual “everyone charges out of the bullpen to slow dance with each other” thing. It was a slow-boiling brawl, starting after Carmona hit Sheffield in the seventh inning. Sheffield and Carmona jawed as Sheffield went to first, but it didn’t blow up until after a pick-off throw to first.

Video after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPbPcOFMdns

And Sheffield’s not letting it go. He told the DETROIT FREE-PRESS that he will get his revenge against Carmona and other Indians who hit him during the brawl. Yikes. Amusingly, Sheffield seems to be under the impression that Carmona has hit him three times this season, when records show it’s only been twice. Still, he’s mad.

“Three strikes, you out,” he said. “And if there’s a fourth, it gets more violent. Trust me.”

I think the fifth strike involves a handgun. And the sixth? A nuclear strike.