While Major League Baseball executives get serious at the Winter Meetings this week in Nashville, players in the Australian Baseball League are getting a little silly on the other side of the world. During an ABL game over the weekend, the bullpens for the Melbourne Aces and Brisbane Bandits engaged in a standoff following the national anthem that last into the game's third inning. [Elsewhere: MLB Winter Meetings journal: Greetings from Nashville ] You might be asking "are these guys crazy?" Yes, they absolutely are. But they're obviously committed to winning, first and foremost, and perhaps even providing unique in-game entertainment, which they certainly accomplished here. Of course, weve already seen a handful of these standoffs over the years in MLB, with the most famous coming prior to Game 6 of the NLCS in 2013 . Scott Van Slyke of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Joe Kelly, then of the St. Louis Cardinals, went face-to-face right up until the game's first pitch. Only an annoyed Greg Gibson, the game's home-plate umpire, could stop it by ordering both players to the dugout. In Australia, they're obviously much more lenient when it comes to these things. As long as they weren't...