If EMP has his way:
pedroia gets spiked by a dirty slide by machado and is injured and misses 3 games.
pedroia blabbers "no retribution".
the Red Sox put Pedroia above baseball and does nothing to retaliate.
Machado and the rest of the league take notice that the Red sox roll over.
next week, next month, next season, machado (or some other slug) has zero fear about retaliation because they know they can be dirty with no consequence and proceeds to truck bogaerts and snaps his knee in half ending his baseball career.
thanks pedroia. glad you and machado are still such good friends and he knows you didn't allow baseball players to enforce baseball. hope you give Xander half your salary......