>Wait. Your issue is with him getting thrown out? Not caving in the chest of the other guy?
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>>Yeah, but come on Mike. This is professional sports where large dollars are involved. In pro sports, whatever you can get away with treated as part of the game. Doing something so obviously stupid and getting yourself ejected in a tied world championship game is way beyond unacceptable. He wasn't just hurting himself, but also all of his teammates, and that's truly where it goes over the line.

Of course I think what he did was bad from a deliberate attempt to hurt viewpoint, but that isn't, as far as I can tell, what the discussion is about. If we were discussing the illegality of hurting other people intentionally, my points would be different, but I thought we were discussing the stupidity/non-stupidity of the act as it pertains to the game. In which case, my point stands. It was a stupid and inexcusable act in the context of the particular game in which he was involved.