baseball is stupid. this is almost WWE stupid though. I guess all of those steroids mess up your head.

Well, MLB has already yanked the video from YouTube, and I couldn't find video on Yahoo either. I saw everything except the pitch last night though...

is Kyle Farnsworth: text book tackles and awesome punches. Maybe when he's done with the Pinstripes he'll fight again.

He clearly thinks he is still a premier (if he ever was) hitter and was the most likely target for retaliation.

Pitchers have been neutered. Hitters get armoured up and they're comfortable knowing that guys aren't coming inside again and again.

If this were 1950, Sexson would be sent to the mental hospital for evaluation. That pitch was nowhere near him.

Once, in a slow-pitch game, playing for the Management/Kitchen team aginst Warehouse Team II, I took a throw at first base, and the runner was out. But I got the notion that he had lifted his elbow toward me as he ran over the base. And I threw the softball at him!

The ump threw me out of the game.

I never had done anything like this before, and never have since. I clearly was the a**hole in the situation. There was no thought involved, though. I just did it, and none of my later talk about the incident made any sense to me or to anybody else.

These baseball fights involve no thought whatsoever. They are more like dreams than like real life.

Once, I was the only non-Mormon in a Mormon softball league. I got thrown out of a game for saying "Oh good grief" to a called third strike against me.

Oh good grief.

How much better would baseball be, if the pitcher had the option to tackle the guy to keep him away from first base after a hit.

MLB surely doesn't want to look like it's promoting brawls, hockey-style...

When did the NHL start promoting its brawls? If anything, the league has cost itself millions over the years by acting like the fights -- which most fans love -- never happened. They may not go as far as hunting down and eliminating YouTube clips like MLB, but that hardly translates to promotion.

I went to a Lutheran high school. In one freshman football game, I snapped the ball over the punter's head, into our end zone, and the other team recovered for a touchdown. I stood up and said, "Oh, shit!"

The coach, Mr. Bahn, bless him, was more angry with me for swearing than for giving up a touchdown to the other team.

For Pete Rose's sake, Kaufman, the damn issue aint to charge or not to charge the mound. The real issue is these panty sack pitchers in the AL being protected by their blasphemous desinated hitter rule.

Take this cocky fireballer Hernandez. The kid's got nastier stuff than Ona Zee. But every time he gives up a dong, he's a-huffing and a-puffing and pouting like somebody stole his lolly pop. Naturally, being a pampered wuss, AL stallion heaver, he's yet to learn that there are consequences for plunking a guy - especially if you drill him the next time you face him, no less. Not to mention that he'd been throwing inside all night - a night, it's worth mentioning, that he brought his B game, at best. He plunked Gerald Laird (as if Laird's leaning over the plate were cause for anything but celebration.)

However talented Hernandez may be, if he had to step into the box and expose his own body to a 90+ heater, he'd damn sure think twice about doing what he done did. And someone, like his ineffective manager, outta pull him aside and mention that to be effective in The Plunk, he should wait till August - August of 09, to lay out Kinsler.

As for Sexson, who can blame the guy? He's got Ray Charles eyes. With his eye, he probably thought Gabbard was throwing behind him. This bannana sucking giraffe should stand off the plate about 8 feet and not swing for three months. By then he might actually see some strikes and will know better than to consider a high heater on the outter half "payback." But when you're whiffing one in every three at bats and being booed at home, it's more likely you'll charge some guy that didn't follow through properly. And like Sexson's approach to hitting, that's just stone cold stupid.

What cracks-me-up about these so-called 'baseball brawls' is the bullpens disgorging the combatants 'running' to the center of the field - as if they were giving out free 'smores' and beers to everyone!!! GIMME A BREAK!!! These 'wussies' like SEXSON wouldn't even make-it in co-ed high school wrestling!!! REAL FIGHTERS WOULD NOT RUN TO THE CENTER OF THE INFIELD TO BE INVOLVED IN A 'FAKE SCRUM' - BUT GO AFTER THE OTHER TEAMS PLAYERS WHEREVER THEY WERE ON THE FIELD!!! Let us see some blood, broken bones, knocked-out-teeth -- instead of this audition for the 'GONG SHOW'!!!

I miss the good old days of MEN like Don Drysdale.

The game has been ruined by the types in my header.

I went to a lot of games in the 40's, 50's & 60's when pitchers were allowed to legitimately back a hitter away.

Now they have this idiotic "warning' of both benches.

My good old America has become a world of simpleton weenies.

Sportswriters, moron blog posters, and Rangers-fan Wikipedia vandals seem to be of mixed opinion as to the need to mention that Sexson is barely over .200 and his kid is in the hospital.

I gul-darn guarantee you that we would not be losing in Eye-Rack if pitchers still were allowed to hit batters in their heads with fastballs.

And... What's the deal with these sissy batting helmets?

National Fox Sports broadcasters are talking about the idea of the Detroit Tigers signing big, thick, notorious Barry Bonds. The local guys never have mentioned this idea, as far as I know, but we will see.

I believe the Tigers should trade their current big, thick free agent Miguel Cabrera to the National League for a good youngish catcher.