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Following Tuesday night’s bench clearing brawl between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees, the league handed down penalties to the two major figures – Jorge Posada and Jesse Carlson. For their part in Tuesday night’s fracas, Posada and Carlson both got four-game suspensions. Their suspensions happened to be scaled back to three games because neither Posada nor Carlson contested the penalty.

If someone can make clear to me how the league came up with four games for both of them, I’d genuinely appreciate it.

When it comes to the number of games a player gets for his actions, it’s anyone’s guess. It seems to me there are no set rules for suspensions. That’s a huge issue in my mind.

Let’s take a look at two non-drug related suspensions that have been handed out so far in ‘09:

Does everyone else see what is ridiculous here? There is no rhyme or explanation for all of the suspensions.

How did Youkilis and Porcello get five games for provoking a bench-clearing fracas, however Posada and Carlson only got 3 games? What did Youkilis and Porcello do differently that their clash led to two more games?

In my belief, a bench-clearing scuffle is a dugout-clearing clash. They’re like coincidences; there are no degrees.

How does Beckett get a six-game penalty for aiming at someone’s head, but Zambrano becomes the same game penalty for beating up a water cooler? I didn’t know possibly ending someone’s career may be just as destructive as beating up an inert object.

This isn’t a Red Sox-Yankee problem – this is a common sense problem. I feel as if I’m off the rocker even discussing something such as this. If you do A, you get B. It is as simple as that.

Major League Baseball – and I am talking about you Bob Watson – needs to come up a benchmark suspension for every infraction.

Presently, it just does not make a single bit of sense.

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