The Brawl In Bean Town

8 Players have been suspended by Major League Baseball for their involvement in the tussle on the infield on June 4th.

Pitching for the Rays was James Shields, and he threw a pitch that hit Coco Crisp, by no means did it look intentional. Crisp thought otherwise and rushed the mound, Shields welcomed Crisp with a haymaker that missed as Crisp threw some punches of his own that at best lightly grazed Shields. As the fight was taken to the ground flying out of the dug out was Rays DH Jonny Gomes who started pounding on Crisp on the ground.

After the brawl, both benches were warned but, Red Sox pitcher, Jon Lester payed that no mind and threw at the Rays and was immediately thrown out of the game.

Crisp was suspended 7 games, Shields suspended for 6, Gomes and Edwin Jackson were both suspended 5 games, speedster Carl Crawford was suspended for 4 games, Sean Casey and Akinori Iwamura were suspended for 3 games, and Lester was suspended for 5 games.

Now here is something to think about, in Hockey fighting is no encouraged but its allowed and the fight persists until there is a winner or a stalemate. Football has hundreds of confrontations but the excuses for these sports is that they are contact sports. Why not just allow the aggression to boil over and allow a 2 minute fight. That way people get their shots in, teams get riled up and those who find baseball boring can get some excitement out of it. Like the people who go to NASCAR races to see crashes, sick people.

Fighting in baseball...think about it.