"Memo to commissioner Bud Selig, discipline czar Bob Watson and especially to major league players: It's time to knock off the punkish stuff in which every hit by pitch becomes a challenge to your manhood. One of the most dangerous eras in baseball history could become even more dangerous.
"It's getting out of hand," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "Every time somebody gets hit they think it's on purpose and they're going to retaliate...
After the game Saturday, Molina, a 12-year veteran, shook his head in disgust about the way the code of the game has deteriorated.
"That's what's wrong about it," Molina said when asked about how retaliation has become virtually automatic even for accidental hit-by-pitches. "The game has changed lately. If you hit somebody, even if it's not on purpose, they come back and hit somebody. You have to be professional, take the hit and go to first.
"Yeah, it's changed a lot. But you can do nothing about it. Just keep going"..."Baseball keeps letting this macho bunk go unchecked...
Every year, thanks to several rounds of expansion and control issues, about 1,000 more batters get hit today than got hit in 1959. That's 1,000 more opportunities to "prove your manhood" by hitting somebody else. On and on we go.
Actually, back in 2001, when guys were hit more often than they are today, I don't remember this vigilante nonsense going on, when every hit batter caused this kind of alarm. These are dangerous times. Bochy is right. The macho stuff is getting out of hand."
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