Singing the Praises of the Preferred Six: Two more notes toward more Manfred tampering...

• Colorado is up a game now in the NL West after a 4-game sweep of the Phillies -- today was 5-3.
• But that wasn't the biggest story so far which might involve Manfred getting his hands dirty.  That honor goes to CC Sabathia.

Final game of the year between the Yankees and the Rays.

Complete blowout.

And it got a little testy as it was getting out of hand...

Back to back home runs by Voit and Stanton made it 11-0 in the 6th.

Then Austin Romine took a pitch up and in to clear the benches.

"was that on purpose" - romine pic.twitter.com/dhqsoDp85E

— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) September 27, 2018

Sabathia did this to start the bottom of the 6th, after warnings...

CC SABATHIA STANDS UP FOR HIS TEAMMATES NO MATTER WHAT #NYY pic.twitter.com/oKYUZ3S4rQ

— Steve Angelovich (@angelsteve89) September 27, 2018

Right on the knee, gone.

Now why would Angelovich go all caps?

Because, had Sabathia completed the seventh inning of what certainly (with a play-in game Tuesday) will be his last start, he would've attained his 155-inning $500,000 bonus.

By getting ejected there, he cost himself a half-million dollars.

And he should cost himself a lot more than that -- like a suspension from the play-in game and maybe the divisional series as well!!

The point I'm making with this post, though, is there's NO CHANCE.

If anything, Manfred suspends him three games tomorrow -- three games he will not pitch! -- and expect us all to accept it.