If anyone knows baseball, it's Colorado Rockies' Manager Don Baylor. And ya gotta love his grit, his determination, his unending stream of testosterone. You can't just slide in there and let a guy tag you. That's how you play the game. If guys don't like it, get a skirt on.
Baseball needs more violence, more blood, more broken bones and more second basemen sliced in twain.
That's why this rash of baseball violence is the best thing that could happen to our sagging national pastime. It's about time those bench-clearing brawls actually looked like a fight instead of an introductory Arthur Murray dance lesson. I detect an image problem here. And the reason is simple. Forty billion years ago, Romans flocked to the Coliseum, Forum and Orange Bowl to witness two grown men beat the living crap out of each other, only to see the winner be instantly devoured by hungry lions.