Talk:Delmon Young Suspended 50 Games/@comment-101836-20060510102926

First of all, you did play the race card, and it was lame. Secondly, he&quot;s not "one of the few" black men in baseball. Looked at a field lately? This isn&quot;t the 1960s. There are plenty of black baseball players. Thirdly, you keep making these comprisons that simply don&quot;t apply. What Alomar did was bad, but spitting on a person will almost never cause physical injury. The same can&quot;t be said for throwing a bat. George Brett threw a huge fit over the pine tar thing, but he didn&quot;t assault the umpire. He didn&quot;t throw his bat at the umpire. The penalty isn&quot;t excessive, THROWING A BAT AT A PERSON is excessive. And the guy WAS a real ump. The fact that he&quot;s not usually a minor league ump doesn&quot;t change the fact that he is a uniformed umpire that gets paid to do his job. And even if he WEREN&quot;T a real ump, it wouldn&quot;t excuse Young for what he did. I&quot;d expect this kind of suspension if he threw a bat at some random guy on the street. Why do you not grasp the weight of assaulting someone with a weapon?