Earl Weaver had it right when it comes to baseball brawls

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/earl-weaver-had-it-right-when-it-comes-to-baseball-brawls/2017/05/30/5f8eaeea-4559-11e7-bcde-624ad94170ab_story.html?utm_term=.2d44abd86538

 

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.