Vic Lamartinas
Following Tuesday night's bench clearing melee between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees, Major League Baseball handed down suspensions to the two foremost troublemakers - Jorge Posada and Jesse Carlson. For their role in Tuesday night's mle, Posada and Carlson each got four-game suspensions. Their suspensions had been scaled back to three games since neither Posada nor Carlson contested the suspension.
If someone might explain to me how the MLB came up with 4 games each, I'd really appreciate it.
When it comes to how many games a competitor gets for his misdealings, it is anyone's guess. It appears to me there are no set guidelines for penalties. That's a giant problem in my eyes.
Let's take a look at a couple of non-steroid related suspensions that have been given so far in 2009:
Does everyone else see what is ridiculous here? There is no rhyme or reason for any of the suspensions.
How did Youkilis and Porcello receive five games for inciting a bench-clearing brawl, although Posada and Carlson only received three games? What did Youkilis and Porcello do differently that their fight led to two more games?
In my belief, a bench-clearing fight is a bench-clearing brawl. They're similar to coincidences; there are no degrees.
How does Beckett get a 6-game penalty for throwing at someone's head, however Zambrano gets the same game penalty for roughing up a water cooler? I didn't know potentially ruining someone's career can be just as destructive as roughing up an inert object.
This is not a Red Sox-Yankee dilemma - this is a reasonable issue. I feel as if I am taking crazy pills even discussing something like this. If you do A, you are hit with B. It's as simple as that.
Major League Baseball - and I am talking about you Bob Watson - needs to come up a standard penalty for every infringement.
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