Yesterday, a prime example of why The Show CAN'T Always Go On... (UPDATE with penalties)

If there's one thing that disgusts me more about sports than anything these days, it's these five words:

The Show MUST Go On.

Well, yesterday in Detroit, we got a prime example of this crap.

Fifth inning, 3-2 Yankees, Gary Sanchez drilled by Tiger pitcher Michael Fulmer for a home run that he "might've taken a little peek at" -- 96 in the hip.

Well, bottom sixth, two out, up comes Miguel Cabrera, and he's brushed forward by a pitch behind him, Tommy Kahnle tossed from the game, Yankee manager Joe Girardi following soon after by kicking dirt on the umpire.

Before the relief pitcher (Aroldis Chapman) could throw a pitch, Cabrera and Yankee catcher Austin Romine got into it, massive brawl several minutes later.  Several cheap shots by Gary Sanchez were pointed out in this misguided Deadspin piece.

That was no standard base-brawl, and the game should've ended right then and there.  Let New York sort it out.

Why?

Because Dellin Betances' second pitch to James McCann was a 98 MPH four-seam fastball to his HEAD!!!  Another bench-clearing exchange.

Betances was not ejected until he and bench coach/replacement manager Rob Thompson argued the point.

Well, that wasn't going to get left unanswered (even excluding the fact that the pitch, by all accounts, probably could well have killed McCann!!!).   Alex Wilson gets Todd Frazier in the eighth, Wilson and Tiger manager Brad Ausmus ejections #7 and #8...

And my anonymous friend baseball fan said something last night I agree with:  Commissioner Blinded By The Light is loving this!  Needing to compete with football, it is clear that Commissioner Manfred has wanted the game to become more intense, hardcore, and violent.

JAMES MCCANN TOOK A NINETY-EIGHT MILE PER HOUR FASTBALL TO HIS HEAD, YOU IDIOTS!!!

There are times that the umpiring, on top of everything else, gets dangerous.  This is one of those times.

Call the game, let the office in New York figure it out, or someone's going to get killed out there because somebody is letting stuff boil far too long out there.

UPDATE 2:35 PM PDT:  And here are the results:

• Cabrera banned seven games for starting it.
• Romine gets two for fighting Cabrera.
• Sanchez gets four for the cheap shots.
• Wilson gets four for an admitted intentional HBP on Frazier.
• Ausmus banned one game for Wilson's actions.
• Additional fines to Girardi, Thomson, Gardner, Kahnle, Jose Iglesias, Garrett Cooper and Clint Fraisier.

NO PENALTY AT ALL FOR THE BEANING OF JAMES MCCANN.

NONE.