With a look back to a melee in 1993 that almost cost Cal Ripken Jr. his
consecutive-game streak, Tom Boswell deftly demolishes the pseudo-macho crap
peddled by Ray Knight, F.P. Santangelo and similar idiots that “red-blooded
men” have no choice but to charge the mound whenever they’re intentionally (at
least in their opinion) hit by a pitched ball. Side note: Boswell doesn’t even
mention that former Nat Michael Morse (of “Take On Me” fame) suffered a
concussion as a by-product of the Harper-Strickland confrontation, when he got
the worst of a collision with teammate (and former Notre Dame football star)
Jeff Samardzija.
Ironically, Harper and 8 other Nats visited various Washington area youth baseball programs last Saturday morning. Guess if grown and supposedly
mature men are allowed to take the law into their own hands by charging the
mound, it must be OK for high school players and Little Leaguers to do so as
well, eh?
Bottom line – the old cliché that two wrongs don’t make a right still
holds.
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