Talk:Delmon Young Suspended 50 Games/@comment-101784-20060510122957

Besides your woefull ignorance of the state of african-american ballplayers, the rest of your post is just as off-base. Your language is inaccurate. In one post you mention twice "assaulting the umpire" and "throwing a bat at a person." However, I think both of these descriptions overstate what happened. The player made a mistake, but he neither assaulted anyone nor did he throw his bat AT anyone. As far as I can tell he flipped his bat but inadvertantly hit the ump. In that scenario, I think throwing the bat is worthy of a 10 game suspension and that the bat made contact with someone worthy of another 15 or so games.

As for the rest of the debate, I will merely point out that Delmon Young is not the 1st person to throw a bat at someone. During the World Series Roger Clemens threw a far more dangerous splintered bat at an opposing player and escaped with NO punishment. So a white superstar pitcher intentionally throws a bat at the opposing teams best player and gets no penalty but a black young phenom throws a bat that most likely inadvertantly hits the umpire and gets 50 games. I highly doubt that race played a part in any of this, but you have to admit that a white guy gets no punishment but a black guy gets 50 games seems a little unfair. Why did MLB believe Clemens when he ridiculously suggested he was just trying to help the bat boy by throwing the splintered bat at Piazza? (Clemens explaine he was just so overpowered by his own emotions that he immediately felt the urge to heave this bat "towards our on-deck circle, where our batboys were at.") He was not punished AT ALL.