Shake hands and come out fighting...

O.K. I don't think my title really has that much to do with the content, but I liked it.

First of all, I have to admit, fighting in baseball doesn’t bother me much. People who say, “fighting doesn’t resolve anything” are often wrong. How many of us, when we were kids, did get into a fight, and then became friends with the person we fought with…? I think Major League Baseball steps in too frequently trying to police beanings and knock-down pitches when the best form of policing is the knowledge that if you bean people, your team will get beaned back and if it goes too far there will be a base-brawl.

With that off my chest… I love this! Athletes ARE role models.