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Major League Baseball Must Crack Down on Brawls
Following Tuesday night's bench clearing brawl between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees, the league handed down penalties to the two major culprits - Jorge Posada and Jesse Carlson. For their part in Tuesday night's fracas, Posada and Carlson each got 4-game suspensions. Their suspensions happened to be lowered to three games since neither Posada nor Carlson appealed the suspension.
If someone could make clear to me how the league came up with four games each, I would really appreciate it.
When it comes to how many games a competitor gets for his actions, it is any person's guess. It seems to me there are no firm rules for penalties. That is a large dilemma in my mind.
Let's take a gander at two non-steroid linked suspensions that have been handed out thus far in 2009:
Does anybody else see what is ridiculous here? There's no rhyme or explanation for all of the suspensions.
How did Youkilis and Porcello get five games for provoking a bench-clearing mle, but Posada and Carlson only got 3 games? What did Youkilis and Porcello do differently that their clash led to two more games?
In my opinion, a dugout-clearing brawl is a bench-clearing brawl. They're similar to coincidences; there are no degrees.
How does Beckett get a six-game penalty for pitching at someone's head, although Zambrano gets the same game suspension for beating up a water cooler? I did not know potentially ruining someone's career could be just as damaging as beating up an inanimate object.
This isn't a Red Sox-Yankee dilemma - this is a very rational problem. I feel as if I'm taking crazy pills even writing something such as this. If you do A, you get B. It's as simple as that.
Major League Baseball - and I am talking about you Bob Watson - needs to draw up a standard suspension for every infringement.
At the moment, it just does not make a single bit of sense.
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