After Tuesday night’s dugout clearing fight between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees, the league handed down suspensions to the 2 central culprits – Jorge Posada and Jesse Carlson. For their part in Tuesday night’s brawl, Posada and Carlson each got four-game suspensions. Their suspensions had been lessened to three games since neither Posada nor Carlson fought the penalty.

If someone might make clear to me how the MLB came up with 4 games for both of them, I would really appreciate it.

When it comes to the number of games a competitor gets for his misdealings, it is anybody’s guess. It seems to me there are no firm guidelines for suspensions. That’s a giant problem in my eyes.

Let’s take a look at two non-drug linked suspensions that have been given thus far in 2009:

Does anyone else see what is strange here? There’s no rhyme or explanation for any of the suspensions.

How did Youkilis and Porcello get five games for provoking a dugout-clearing brawl, although Posada and Carlson only received three games? What did Youkilis and Porcello do differently that their brawl led to 2 additional games?

In my belief, a bench-clearing brawl is a dugout-clearing brawl. They’re similar to coincidences; there are no levels.

How does Beckett receive a six-game penalty for throwing at someone’s head, but Zambrano gets the same game penalty for roughing up a water cooler? I didn’t understand potentially ending someone’s career could be just as damaging as roughing up an inanimate object.

This is not a Red Sox-Yankee issue – this is a very rational dilemma. I feel like I am taking crazy pills even discussing something like this. If you do A, you get B. It’s as simple as that.

The MLB – and I am talking about you Bob Watson – has to come up a benchmark penalty for every infringement.

Presently, it just doesn’t make any sense.

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