Cabrera also will be suspended
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Mar 14, 2008 
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We’re still waiting for official word from Major League Baseball, but indications are that Melky Cabrera will be suspended for three games as well.
The Devil Rays said at the time that Cabrera punched Evan Longoria during the brawl and apparently MLB found evidence to back that up.
So the Yankees will likely be without their starting center fielder for Opening Day.
Wait – Melky gets more games than Gomes?
Pete won’t he appeal?
are you kidding me
I would love to see footage of that.
How did this get left out of all the various brawl reports?
Not singling out Pete here.
Just surprised every newspaper covering this somehow missed this.
Melky, love yah but you shudda known better
THE MELK-MAN DELIVERS!!!
It is total bs if Melky gets more than Gomes. Gomes started the brawl by blindsiding Shelley. Had he done nothing, it would have been over with. Hey Melky was defending his teamates.
I am calling BS on this whole thing if Melky gets suspended more than Gomes
Is there a Yankee who WON’T be suspended?
theyll both appeal and play opening day
Melky hit a Woman!
That’s not the Yankee way.
He’s lucky it wasn’t Felicity Huffman – she looks tough
Jeez
Serves him right. What has he thinking?
Not to disparage Shelley, but losing Melky would hurt.
What’s Gumby’s status? All of a sudden it’s critical that he’s okay.
And thank God that Matsui can take the field. JD in center, Matsui in left. Giambi at 1B if healthy. Betemit as your DH.
I suspect we’ll start with one less pitcher than planned. Who’s the odds on favorite for the extra position player?
Interesting since Gomes is the guy who created the mess.
How does he get less games than Cabrera?
Everybody should have gotten two games and that should have been it.
Its hysterical to me how the Rays keep calling the “principal” for help.
Now we see why the Rays are such a bunch of gutless losers.
This is why, if you are the Yankees, you need to be vigilant in protecting your own. The Commissioners Office isn’t going to do it. Its too easy for them to make the Yankees the bad guys in all this.
Its going to be interesting to see what Maddon does tomorrow.
If he hits Duncan, then all hell is going to break loose with these two teams.
It would have been a much simpler solution if the Commissioners Office let the team decide on field issues instead of fielding phone calls from the frightened
Rays.
gomes (or gomez) should get at least 15 to 25 games.
whoa !! 3 games meanwhile that RF fata** can do a blind side tackle to someone and have the whole world hold him back and that’s only 2 games ?
“This is why, if you are the Yankees, you need to be vigilant in protecting your own. ”
How? If you retaliate, you lose. Maybe with preemptive strike?
The Yankees will appeal the suspensions. I’d be willing to bet Melky will be our starting CF on the 31st.
What do you say Pete?
You just play the game hard Dan. That’s all you do.
I subscribe to the Tony LaRussa School on these matters.
You hit my guy, I hit yours twice. You hit my guy twice, I hit yours 6 times.
Sooner or later, the crap stops.
This thing escalated for two reasons. One, Chad Fairchild, the home plate umpire, overreacted when he threw Phillips out of the game for hitting Longoria.
He wasn’t trying to hit him. He was trying to survive the inning.
The second reason it escalated was Gomes running in from RF.
You want to toss Duncan for the slide? No problem.
Want to suspend him for the slide? No problem.
To give Cabrera more games than Gomes, who started the brawl, is a joke.
The proper way to have handled this would have been to suspend everyone the same amount of games and warn the two managers that any further escalation of this will result in harsher suspensions for everybody involved.
Instead, Watson turned this into the “Yankees are the Badguys”. He also is rewarding the Rays for being crybabies to the Commissioners Office on this matter.
If Shelley Duncan gets hit by a pitch tomorrow, Bob Watson better come down hard on the Rays.
If he doesn’t, then it has to be target practice the next time the Yankees face them.
If the “Czar of Discipline” isn’t going to administer punishment fairly, you do it on your own.
agreed SJ. well put.
Yes they’ll appeal and in the 17 days left until opening day the appeals will be decided upon. Both will sit on 3/31… I just hope their names get announced so I can give a standing ovation to each.
Booo! to all the beat writers that wrote nothing of Melky’s involvement but have published volumes on crap such as Billy Crystal and Derek Jeter’s love life.
Having been at the game, I can say that It was certainly started by Duncan, not Gomes. It was unfortunate, and while the park was essentially all Yankee fans, it was embarassing. I got some great pics and will be photobucketing them and posting a link this weekend. (i’m at the airport right now) Got some pics of Pete, as well as the regulars who made the 20 minute trek to AL Lang Field. With my little boy on my shoulders, Jorge was kind enbough to say “Hi” to us. The kiddo thought that was pretty special. I will say that Tampa is a great place, the people are more than nice. It was a great experience! Of course coming from Maine, this was the first time I have seen grass since October 2007…
“Instead, Watson turned this into the “Yankees are the Badguysâ€. He also is rewarding the Rays for being crybabies to the Commissioners Office on this matter.”
Perhaps the Rays are still peeved from when the Yanks were asking the Commissioner to force the Rays to forfeit a game in NY that Rays players didnt want to fly up to because they preferred to be with their families during Hurricane Frances?
Wow, Melky was the one who threw the punch?! Who’d have thunk?! *adopts best Chris Tucker in ‘Friday’ voice* That’s my dawg, that’s my dawg!
And I come from the Tony LaRussa school of justice as well.. and so does Shelley, obviously, but the Melk Man?! I am pleasantly surprised, go Melky!! Give em hell!
As for Bob Watson, did anyone really expect him to be fair on this? He comes down extra hard on us every chance he gets, that fascist.
Now I can’t help but wonder do the D-Rays face the Cardinals at all this year? Cause family ties run deep, so if I were Tampa’s batters I would watch out for Chris on the basepaths and for Dave Duncan’s pitching staff at the plate! Has he said anything about this btw? I’m sure he just loved that loser of a nobody Maddon calling his son “almost criminal”!
Oh and as for the Devil Rays crying to the Commish’s office and ratting Melky out for throwing the punch, all I can say is snitches get stitches!
Not sure why people are surprised by Melk’s feistiness, he’s always had it. Kid has a great heart to go w/a great arm.
Way to go leche ,I hope you got him good enough to make it worth the suspension!!!