What I said, and what you are too fucking obstinate to admit, is that regardless of the rules they showed poor sportsmanship in running up the score.

That’s my opinion and I will stand by it regardless of what you say. Now, try once again to show me how you are superior to me.

Or I’m an native-born American who mis-spelt a word that spell check picked up as being a correctly spelt word when I didn’t spell it correctly at first.

Guess you don’t know, but still feel the need to be superior to me. It’s nice to know that you’ve never had to use spell check on a computer. You must be special. I guess that’s why you can’t actually address the point I made and need to nitpick about spelling.

I didn’t realize you were a syrup drinker as well.

1. They knew they were trying to run up the score – poor sportsmanship, and I don’t care what the argument is. Italy whipped the syrup-drinkers, not Mexico. Don’t get your ass handed to you, you don’t have to be dicks to a different team.

2. Pissing and moaning about pitches inside. He was throwing low and inside. Just the fuck up. We celebrate players who are ‘gritty’, yet the Canadian player is too much of a pussy to take one in the leg. He was crying to the umpire before he ever got hit. You know what happens if he gets hit and keeps his trap shut: 2 on and 0 out. That’s a lot better scenario for running up the score then getting players suspended.

3. The Canadians were out of the dugout and in the middle of the field before the Mexicans, so they were spoiling for a fight and ready to go at it, instead of letting the umpires handle it. Explain that sportsmanship thing again?

4. Gilles, #24, tried to kick a Mexican player in the head. Explain to me again about that sportsmanship thing again.

5. Supposedly professional ballplayers couldn’t handle the crowd and responded back, thereby escalating the situation into an ever more dangerous issue. Explain to me about that sportsmanship thing again.

Like I said, the Mexicans were wrong. Explain to me how the Canadians were right about anything they did?

So, let them throw at you three times but simply turn the other cheek?

Also, “Fourthly, I’m not really concerned about a team advancing that got mercy-ruled and then had to run the score up in another game.”

So they lost one game badly and then had to run the score up to maximize their chances of making the next round and you consider them irrelevant?

Not sure I understand your logic here. Maybe you took a few too many beanballs yourself…

What exactly are they supposed to learn from this? To me, the lesson is “Brawl away, boys. There will be no additional consequences.”

I also know running up the score is poor sportsmanship. If the Canadians had played better against the Italians and not gotten mercy-ruled, they wouldn’t have had to run up the score and been poor sportsmen.

Play better against one team and they don’t have to be dicks to another.

As I said, I don’t condone what the Mexican team did, but seriously, the Canadians need to grow the hell up. Wow, the fans in the stand were yelling at them and said something mean.

Professional players are supposed to learn to ignore what is said from the stands. Engaging the fans and acting as stupid as they do does not help the situation.

MLB is hosting the tournament, but the governing body is the IBAF, as it is an international (and not a domestic league) competition.

MLB could do anything they wanted to any player to a player in their league. What they can’t do is punish players not under a major-league contract.But that does not take precedence over the governing body punishments.

Secondly, If the Canadians don’t want players suspended for the next round, don’t fight. No fight, no suspension.

Thirdly, no one said they had to be suspended for the next round.

Fourthly, I’m not really concerned about a team advancing that got mercy-ruled and then had to run the score up in another game.

It’s madness – the name of the game is to score runs, if you don’t like it then pitch better!

As for this tournament, Mexico has been eliminated and Canada’s fate hinges on the US/Canada game this afternoon. Sure, it’s fair to penalize the Canadian players involved in the brawl, but is it fair to give the US team an advantage of playing an elimination game against a shorthanded Canadian team?