Gossage: MLB has gone completely out of their minds

In another rant about young guys not acting the "Yankee way" Gossage actually said something I can agree with; baseball needs to stop protecting hitters so much, and it's hurting the game.

From Barry M. Bloom (with a couple quotes from a New York Post article):

About Mariners first baseman Rich Sexson, who had his suspension reduced from six games to five for charging Texas left-hander Kason Gabbard, whose pitch came in high, though over the plate, Gossage said:

"Sexson should have been suspended for a month, not the five days or so he got"

"That ball wasn't even close," Gossage said. "You drop that ball down and it's a strike. You want to go play T-ball and be soft."

Gossage added that another Yankees reliever, Kyle Farnsworth, shouldn't have been suspended for throwing a warning pitch behind Boston's Manny Ramirez last month in a game at Yankee Stadium. Ramirez had been hot in two early April series against Yankees pitching, before Farnsworth issued what was construed by Major League Baseball's disciplinarians as a warning.

He was suspended for three games, a sentence that was reduced to one.

"It used to be part of the game and isn't part of the game anymore," Gossage said about backing a hitter off the plate. "It just goes into this whole thing of protecting hitters. And money has controlled that. They wanted to put more offense in the game by design. And to me, they've gone completely out of their minds."

"Maybe 600 is the bench mark now for home runs," he said. "The 500 Home Run Club was the most sacred club of all time and I hate to see the history of the game being changed and manipulated."