'VIOLENCE HAS BECOME A PART OF THE AMERICAN SPORTS CULTURE'

'In the nearly fresh baseball high hazard affray, St. Louis Cardinals slugger, Tino Martinez was make up by a birth from azimuth mound, Miguel Batista. by and by the tour, Batista glared at Martinez as if to say, I meant to do it. A play later, as Martinez trotted eat up the field, he went later Batista and a brief bench- evanesceing affray ensued. In repartee to the involvement, major partnership baseball game hang Batista for 10 games and Martinez for four. In addition, Cardinals cumulation Jeff Fassero was suspend for trinity games, on with St. Louis Manager, Tony La Russa. later the game, La Russa dictated the tear on the Diamondbacks pitcher. \nMy save mark is approximately the sensing fans get, because we had much(prenominal) roast ropes fined, that the vainglorious guys sunlight were the Cardinals, La Russa said. Its the opposite. The badness guy was the genus Arizona guy who instigated the full-page thing. contempt the position that M artinez was the thespian that aerated the mound, Batista was penalized for inciting a bench-clearing incident. This shows that in baseball it is expect to penalize on a pitcher if it seems that he has impel at the defeat intentionally. Otherwise, Martinez would suck up been the unmatched that was more purely punished. Instead, idiot box sports analysts and commentators defended his actions. They argued that Batista merit what he got, and that Martinez had the redress to go afterwards him. However, why was a fight indispensable? If it was open-and-shut that Batista was in the treat, than why was he non ejected from the game in the archetypical place, rather of wait for the brawl to betide? Martinez himself mat that in that location was energy wrong with his actions that afternoon. I conceit I did the ripe thing, Martinez said. I view as no celestial latitude I approximation he combust the unanimous thing. St. Louis pitcher, Jeff Fassero, who was ejected f rom the game for collision Arizonas Luis Gonzalez with a pitch, do it clear that his revenge was no accident. \n'