Look at the guy’s knee. Thats where the guy got spiked. The picture everyone is showing as after the fact. The foot is just hanging there in midair. The guy never got spiked in the nads.

That being said I didn’t like the slide anyways. But the Dray never got spiked in the balls. Thats just so much BS.

according to Shelley, he was trying to knock the ball loose, and there’s NOTHING illegal about that. iirc, he did it a time or two last year and was never ejected. bc of the umps sensitivity today, he was tossed.

Mike Lowell put an elbow into Cano’s face last year, but that was ‘good hardball’, and no one started a fight over it.

btw, you conveniently failed to address my other points while harping on the last one.

But if anyone was dirty, if anyone should should be fined and/or suspended, it’s Gomes. Holy Hannah, that blindsided tackle was the cheapest shot I’ve seen in baseball in a very long time.

But seriously, is Gomes that much of a wimp or is Shelley that strong? Because even with a full head of steam running in from right field and hitting him blind sided, Gomes barely moved Duncan!! Nonetheless, Gomes should be fined.

If a boxer breaks his opponent’s nose, makes him require sutures, bursts capillaries in half his face and gives him a concussion, we can hardly compare that to a badminton player who slaps an opponent across the face. We can say, “The boxer was excessive!” yet he was doing his job. We cannot justify the badminton player’s act by saying, “The other person wasn’t hurt!” or saying, “The boxer who was hurt was his brother, and the opponent was the other boxer’s brother!” and expect that to make it okay because the injury was more slight.

What Duncan did was foul and against the rules. Bottom line.

I don’t think that what happened to Cervelli was in the best of taste, but it wasn’t illegal. Too much? Probably. Illegal? Certainly not. You shouldn’t try to equivocate the two. It shows poor judgment.