On Wednesday, Kyle Seager of the Mariners and Jared Weaver of the Angels got into an argument over Seager taking too long to get ready. Weaver hit Seager with the next pitch and was promptly ejected from the game. Thread on /r/baseball with links to video and discussion.

Seager accused Weaver of quitting on his team, since he knew hitting him would get him ejected. Weaver responded with a dismissive, "I don't even know who this kid is."

Fans on both sides got all worked up. /r/mariners fans went to /r/angelsbaseball to defend Seager and started getting comments deleted and banned.

Next, they made /r/angelsbaseball subscriber-only. During this time, if you went to the sub and weren't a subscriber, it simply said "Go away Mariners" and showed no posts.

Finally, /r/angelsbaseball was made private with a message saying it was due to the brigade and to watch @angelsbaseball for updates.