Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!shaprkg From: shaprkg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Bob Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Padres vs. Braves Fiasco Message-ID: <1248@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 19:33:46 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1248 Posted: Mon Aug 13 19:33:46 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 06:50:02 EDT References: <405@loral.UUCP> Reply-To: shaprkg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Bob Shapiro) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 26 In article <405@loral.UUCP> sdi@loral.UUCP (Steve Irwin) writes: >Anyone see the Padres and the Braves fighting this weekend? >What a zoo that was. I'd like to see some opinions on what >should happend to Perez and the rest of the Padres pitching staff. I'm torn between sending them to bed without their supper or locking them up in a room for 24 hours with Billy Martin so they can learn some manners. Of course they could all be forced to serve a stretch at the local amusement park as targets in the baseball throw. On the serious side this sort of childish behavior is not only bush but potentially dangerous. Unfortunately suspensions are sort of meaningless to either of these teams (unless they carry through beyond the end of the season) because the Padres are so far in front. In addition, suspensions have the bad effect of rewarding not-involved parties. (Witness the effect of how the Yugoslavian won a gold medal when Hollyfield was disqualified in the boxing match at the Olymics). I think that the owners and managers of the 2 teams should be held responsible for the actions of the players. After all the buck stops there. If they can't control them then they should suffer the fate of any supervisor who can't control his employees. So very large fines on management together with a probationary period, which if broken, would result in additional and heavier penalties. Management could use their own internal procedures to see that the players stay in line. If the "fear of God" was put into their hearts by the commissioner's office, I'm sure they would find a way to pass it on to the players.