Erstad - Estrada Collision at the plate

[David B]

Originally posted by JugglingReferee
Finally saw the play in question. I'm not an ump, but I do officiate.

My comment is not to debate philosophies of different rulesets or levels of play, but if that was legal, I surely would like to see what it is that becomes illegal.

Stuff like that turns me away from the sport.

You are exactly correct, that is not the way game is supposed to be played, anymore.

And MLB has a way of dealing with players who "go over the line" of what is accepted.

You can count on it happening sometime in the future. Might be a bean ball, might be a spike, but payback always comes in MLB.

So while by rule they allow practically anything, in reality that is why we have so many fights and bean balls etc., because often the line is crossed.

Especially now that the players make $$$$$$$$$$$ and they don't want to miss a game and hurt their stats if they can help it.

When I was growing up and wathcing baseball as a kid, stuff like this was simply ignored, just a good play and everyone on both teams would go "wow".

Baseball was a lot more fun to watch in those days.

thanks
David