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Two Grown Men Fight in a Parking Lot Over Girl's Softball

Two grown men don't act like grown men when discussing girl's softball.

On Wednesday in Salisbury, Md., 45-year-old Michael Duffy of Mays Landing, N.J., and 48-year-old Michael Barbella of Ventnor, NJ, got in a scrap over––well, um, I'm not really sure. I guess sometimes you just gotta scrap.

The video opens in the middle––in media res, as it's known in filmmaking––of a verbal confrontation between Duffy and Barbella stemming from something to do with their respective daughters playing softball. Nothing here seems particularly out of the ordinary. Just a couple dads, aggressively posturing over youth sports. This is still America, after all.

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The two men keep their distance, and appear to head their separate ways. Barbella offers a parting call, "You got a problem with me? I don't think so, bruh."

Bruh.

Duffy asks, for all of us, "Why are you still talking?" And as Barbella reapproaches, Duffy adds, "Did you really drive all the way here for this?"

This being getting his face rearranged on the concrete of a Salisbury, MD, parking lot and all the way here being the 3 ½ hour drive from Ventnor, N.J., to Salisbury, Md.

Barbella replies, "My man, I'm on vacation."

Of course.

Says Duffy, "My man, this is not a vacation."

No, it isn't.

As the confrontation regains steam, Duffy says, "Your daughter's off the team because of you," which is an important quote because it means Barbella just spent his "vacation" driving 3 ½ hours to a softball game in which his daughter isn't even playing, just to get in a fight with a 45-year-old man in a Salisbury, Md., parking lot.

I can't imagine how this man could ever have been the reason that his daughter is off this team.

Then we see some more grown men yelling at each other. Barbella attempts to safely stow his phone in his pocket before getting into a fight with a 45-year-old man in a Salisbury, Md., parking lot over high school softball. He then gets taken to the ground, blood spilling from his face all over a Salisbury, Md., parking lot. Such is the sacrifice of fatherhood.

The lesson to all you young fathers, if there is a lesson, is that if you're going to make a 3 ½ hour drive to fight a 45-year-old man in a Salisbury, Md., parking lot, you should first make sure that you can fight.

[h/t Deadspin]