The Pirates may not be very good on the field.

But, man, can they be entertaining.

One would usually have to shell out a couple hundred bucks on a Pay-per-view package to see a fight with as much action as the one the Bucs and Reds got into Tuesday night.

MMA doesn’t have anything on these guys.

Players, coaches and even the managers got in on this act.

The two teams may have long been out of the race, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to start their own Fight Club.

First rule of this Fight Club? There are no rules to this Fight Club.

Ejected from a game and in the clubhouse like Reds’ manager David Bell?

Who cares? Come on down and try to engage in fisticuffs with the opposing manager.

Get traded minutes before the brawl like Yasiel Puig?

So what? Attempt to take on the entire opposing team. Your new club, the Cleveland Indians, surely won’t mind at all that their newest player just put his body at risk while wearing another uniform.

And the prime directive of this new Fight Club: don’t charge the mound. Heck, don’t even charge the plate.

That’s cliche.

Passe.

Yesterday’s news.

In this Fight Club you charge the dugout of the opposing team.

Give the entire roster a shot at you.

A 10 for difficulty.

It’s no wonder then that Major League Baseball took this seriously enough to ban six players and the two managers for a total of 40 games.

The head-scratcher, though, was the fact that Pirates’ scatter-armed pitcher Keone Kela got 10 games for throwing at Derek Dietrich (and, of course, missing) and Garrett got fewer games (eight) for reenacting the plot of “300.”

MLB takes head hunting seriously, it seems.

It should also take relievers running amok and starting brawls seriously, too.

Seriously enough to at least give Kela and Garrett the same amount of games.

Bell also should have gotten more than six games for leaving the clubhouse and instigating even more chaos on the field.

Pirate manager Clint Hurdle’s two-game suspension was also meant as a message.

The bad blood between the Pirates and Reds goes back all the way to April when Dietrich stood at home plate and admired a home run that splashed into the Allegheny.

That’s a no-no and the Pirates have let him know it with the first kerfuffle.

It should have ended there.

But, baseball.

The sport has its own rules and it seems none of them are written down anywhere.

Here’s another fact. This West Side Story-like rumble redux wouldn’t have happened had Garrett not lost his mind.

The Pirates and Reds play again at the end of the month.

If the actual act of the two teams playing baseball doesn’t get you charged, the prospect of Round 3 just might.

So, get your popcorn ready.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.