As anyone who has been around the game at any level knows, there’s a certain omertà in clubhouses where you protect your own and there doesn’t need to be a lot of talk about it. Let’s face it, MLB players have always policed themselves. There are unwritten rules and unspoken shows of respect that go beyond friendship and being a good teammate when you’re a professional athlete.
These kinds of symbolic gestures have been going on forever and it’s something that may very well continue after we’re all dead and gone. It doesn’t make it right, per se, but it is what it is and you and I are not going to change it by tweeting or writing about it on the world wide web.