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”!

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?

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.

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.

What do you say Pete?