What I wanted to comment on was the three-day suspension of Kyle Fartsworth for NOT hitting Manny Ramirez. I absolutely can not believe what baseball has become. How can someone get suspended (for three days, no less) for throwing a pitch that misses a player at bat? I am not even sure that Manny realized what happened during that throw. There was no reaction from him, there was no ejection of Fartsworth... what the hell? All of you should know by now that I could care less about Fartsworth, and his suspension (if held up and I sure hope it isn't) will mean absolutely nothing to the Yankees... the team has shown lately that they can lose games by pitching others, no need to have Kyle pitch to make that happen. But this suspension hits the Yankees as a team and shows how pathetic the MLB and Commissioner's office has become. I mean, what's next? Are we going to start suspending players for making bad catches?
This case is not even comparable to last year's incidents involving Youkilis. In June of last year he was hit on the helmet by Scott Proctor's 94 MPH fastball and Proctor was ejected from the game, but I don't remember a suspension. In August, Joba was ejected (and later suspended for two games) for a pair of pitches to Youkilis' head. Probably not fair but, whatever. But in last Thursday's nights game where was the ejection? There was none... merely a warning. How can you go from a warning to a three day suspension? If I recall correctly, A-Rod was hit (actually hit) by a pitch to his back. I don't know about you but I would like to see some justice.
Here are the Sunday standings. Not too much to get excited about...
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