What Clemens did to Piazza should have gotten him thrown out of the game. No question about it, the umpires dropped the ball BIG TIME on that one. Unlike most of the people here, if my team does wrong, or the players on my team do something wrong, I call them out on it.
I hated Pedro [because he was as good as I had ever seen], but I loved the fact that he drilled you if you got out of line. I like intimidating pitchers. The hitters get away with way too much these days. Jeter, one of my favorite players of all time, has made a career out of diving into pitches. He would not have been able to do that 30-40 years ago. The game has changed. What should have happened was Manny should have been drilled right after that.
Here are some other people who agree with my point. Some of them know a thing or two about baseball:
Bob Gibson used to say that the batters box belonged to the hitter. However, the space between the batters box and the plate was his house, and he didn't want people to come to his house uninvited.
"Barry Bonds? I'll tell you what, if he hit a home run off (Bob) Gibson or (Don) Drysdale and stood and admired it, they'd knock that earring out of his ear the next time up." - National League Umpire Doug Harvey