Friday, June 5, 2009

MLB Suspends Burnett 6 Games

Major League Baseball suspended Yankee pitcher, AJ Burnett, for 6 games.  Burnett threw a high hard one towards Texas Rangers, Nelson Cruz, in apparent retaliation of Vicente Padilla tagging Yanks first basemen, Mark Teixeira, not once, but twice.  

Burnett is appealing the suspension, hoping it will be reduced.  Predictions are 5 games, for one turn through the rotation.  What's shocking about the suspension is that Padilla, the true criminal that continues to walk the streets a free man, was only fined an undisclosed amount.  I must admit though, I like Padilla's style.  Instead of walking batters and wasting pitches, he's known to just plunk a batter.  Often, I've wished Yankee pitchers would hit Big Nugget Youkilis with a pitch just to move on from his customary 8 pitch at bat.

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