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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Beanball fever
Message-ID: <268@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 09:29:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: fisher.268
Posted: Mon Aug 13 09:29:18 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 01:32:00 EDT
Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics
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[duck!]

This was a bit too much folks.

Pascal Perez hit the first batter (Wiggins) in yesterday's Brave-Padre
game in Atlanta. From the replay that I saw, I'd say it was on that
just got away (besides, who wants to put Wiggins on to start the
game?). However, the Padres were unable to see things that way.

Each of FOUR times Perez came to bat he was knocked down. To say this
was retaliation is ridiculous; an accidental HBP does not require any
chin music, never mind a four movement symphony.

The Padres were evidently sure they were in a beanball battle long
before the Braves found out (Atlanta did not retaliate in kind until
late in the game). As such, I feel the league ought to treat this as
an institution's problem rather than an individual's one. I therefore
think it would be fair to leavy a fine on San Diego as a team rather
than on the individual pitchers. A just amount might be the receipts
from well attended weekend game, say $250,000. 

This was not your typical beanball incident, born out of high emotion
and chance. This was a deliberate attempt on the part of a first-place
team to deprive its rather distant challenger of the use of its top
starter, by either intimidation or injury.

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david