Bud Selig finally does something right, and the pigs squealing for blood in sports fandom don't like it!!!

I can't believe I'm about to say this.

Bud Selig has finally done something right!!!

And, in doing so, he has pissed off all the "real men" sports fans who believe that we are pussifying the country yet again.

Either for next season or the following season, the classic home plate collision will be banned.

According to reports, this will take four steps.

• Catchers cannot block the plate.
• Runners can't target the catcher.
• Calls in this regard are reviewable under instant replay.
• Supplemental discipline (suspensions) can be given.

The deliberate "trucking" of a catcher is an ejection/suspension offense at at least all levels before college, if not college as well.

Welcome to the 21st century in this regard, Major League Baseball.

Not only will this protect the head injuries on catchers and injuries to runners, it might also stop beanballs and fights which might result.

Not that you can tell some of the idiots and pigs squealing for blood like these idiots I and my anonymous source have found on the subject...

• "Next thing to go will be runners sliding into infielders to break up double plays... This is dumb..."

Should already have gone.  The rule is already if you don't make an effort to touch the base, more outs can be awarded.  A deliberate take-out without regard to running the bases should be an ejection.

• "As if baseball hasn't already gotten boring enough. You make a rule against a rare and exciting play. I've been struggling to make it through an entire game, this may be the straw that broke the camel's back for me. What's the point to watch a game before the 8th inning any more?"

If you need that degree of violence or potential violence to find sports interesting, there's a far larger problem with you than being simply bored.

Or is that it?  You need someone maimed to feel like a real man by cheering them on?

• "quit turning our sports leagues into the everyone must win and get a trophy leagues. Man up and play the game!"

It's not, you piece of crap.  This isn't the Special Olympics (of which I've seen literally a dozen analagous comments here), or your local kids' league either.

We just don't want to see players getting unnecessarily maimed.  Like one of the respondents to your tripe said:  "Of course, it's not your career......"

• To which you said:  "In every career that are inherent risks. Don't change the game because of a possibility of injury."

Just admit you want to see people get fucked up.  Let's just go there.  Every sport worth it's salt tries to reduce the risk of such injuries.  How about we reduce the probability of injury?  Or do you WANT the injury, sir?

I think I know that answer.  Here's a hint:  The spitball was banned from the Major Leagues in 1920, and a large part of the reason was the death of Ray Chapman due to a spitball in the head.  (However, contrary to popular belief, it was NOT because the spitball did weird things in flight.  It was because, due to the amount of junk on the ball on a spitball, the batter might not be able to see the ball at all before it plonked him.)

Not only that, but Chapman's death became the first impetus toward the eventual mandate of the batting helmet.

But...  In every career that are inherent risks. Don't change the game because of a possibility of injury.", right?

Both of those innovations seriously changed baseball.  Shut up.

• Here's the mentality of many sports fans on display:  "Pay me 5 mil a year and ill let these guys run me over for 2 hours a day with no pads."

You're DUMB.

• "I'm noticing a trend here...those who like the decision appear to be still living at home and those opposed most likely have been watching baseball the past 20 or more years."

So are you.  What you've been watching "the past 20 or more years" is NOT BASEBALL.  It's ROID-BALL.  Steroid-ladened animals taking the once-proud sport of baseball and OBLITERATING IT.