Yeah, we’re still on this beanball war thing, since I only just now heard what Mark Melancon said last night. I’m drafting off of Bill Baer’s post from this afternoon, but I had been trying to hold out from speaking my mind on the matter because, well, dragging out the incident means “both sides” get a bigger platform to wage their war of ideas in the matter of When Is It The Appropriate Time To Intentionally Throw A Ball At A Player’s Head.
The argument for is that it’s never about hitting the guy in the head with the ball, it’s about scaring him for making you look bad.