Fighting the Foolish Fight

We have all heard the expression fighting the good fight, well on Tuesday Yankee's catcher Jorge Posada decided to fight the foolish fight. Last night against the Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Jesse Carlson threw a pitch behind Posada about butt high. This took place after two members of the Toronto Blue Jays a been hit by a pitch. Posada should have just shut his mouth and the beanball war would have been over. Posada held himself in check for a little while, but later on that half inning while scoring a run Posada threw a weak little elbow towards Carlson and soon after the benches emptied. Posada is enough of a veteran to know how baseball justice works you hit one or two of mine and I will send a pitch towards the ribs of one of yours and it will be done. If the pitch is up by the head then you have a reason to bitch and moan, but that wasn't the case here. So everybody got to rush out on the field and push and shove a little and Carlson wound up with a huge knot on his head. Today MLB issued three game suspensions on both Carlson and Posada, along with a three gamer for little used Yankee Shelley Duncan. It pains me as a Yankees fan to say it but Posada should have received a longer suspension than Carlson for he was really the instigator. Posada can be a fiery guy, but he has to know when to stay above the fray, pun intended. Someone in all the pushing and shoving could have injured themselves. Just think of how Posada would have had to explain his actions if a guy like Mark Teixeira would have blown out a knee and been lost for the playoffs, and don't tell me it can't happen just look at the Padres and Milton Bradley in 2007 and that was only Bradley and his coach pushing. So Posda bring the passion and fire but also remember to bring the brain that tells you when to fight and when to let things go.


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