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Originally posted by Warren Willson

I agree that Christensen needs to be held accountable, but I don't agree that he should be held solely responsible if that's what you mean by "singularly and individually for HIS decision".

If Molina had been prevented from being in the wrong place by the umpire, in all probabilty the offense would not have been committed. The umpire is therefore partially culpable.

Warren, gotta disagree with your statement BIG TIME
on this one. There are plenty of rules in the book in which we do not enforce, otherwise known as Nit-Picken Rules . The only time we enforce is when someone is trying to be a smart a####. Example; Rule says all players except F2 have to have both feet in fair territory. Do we enforce - NO (ie; F3) except if coach comes out and wants to be a hard a###, and then we say Hey coach BTW your first-basemen will be penalized to. That normally ends it.

IMO I do not see how you can possibly or remotely blame Blue on this one. Is Blue Krescan? I'm sure if Blue actually knew that something ugly was going to develop, he would have acted. Your letting the 2 people MOST RESPONSIBLE off the hook.

There's 2 people at fault here - The one who instructed F1 to throw at the on-deck batter and the player who actually threw the pitch. The administrators of this institution could also have some limited liability if they knew in advance that this coach was not a good sportsman in their hiring process.

If you told me to kill someone and I did, both you and I would be guilty. This scenario is no different. That's the problem in Today's Society - Everybody's looking for an out instead of accepting responsibility for their own actions. As I said we as Blues do not enforce every little rule that's in the book unless as stated someone wants to be a smart a###.

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