Read this garbage if you haven’t already. It’s absurd. Roger Clemens gets a five-game suspension for hitting Alex Rios while Toronto’s Josh Towers walks off with only a fine after completing a two-day assault on A-Rod.

You can read about it here on ESPN.com.

Man. Is this what it’s come down to? An entire team sets its sights against A-Rod, throws at his knee twice but A-Rod’s teammates should do nothing about it? Ridiculous. When is Major League Baseball going to wake up and allow the players to police the game they play, the way they used to? Probably never. But if you’re going to suspend Roger Clemens, you have to look at Josh Towers who, in my opinion, was much more in the wrong then Clemens.

Okay, I get it. There was a warning and THEN Clemens nailed Alex Rios. Gotcha. That’s more of a no-no than an “innocent” shot at the knee from earlier in the game…and as MLB defines the rules, Clemens’ punishment should be steeper. So, yes, at this point people are just enforcing rules….Except there are two critical flaws with this rule.

1) It does not take into account the premeditated nature of Towers’ dangerous shot at A-Rod’s knee and 2) it does not allow players to police the game between the lines. Listen, we all know that Towers was channeling his team’s anger from the “Ha” incident when he threw at A-Rod. Or, at the very least, we know that Towers was getting even just about as well as we know that Clemens was throwing at Rios intentionally. So I ask you, what is worse: to get even within the frame of one game or to wait months and then unload over a two-game period while targeting a vulnerable body part?

Frankly, it’s insane. I hope Clemens successfully appeals this case. The Rocket shouldn’t even be thinking about a suspension, but instead, should be getting ready for his next start. Just like Josh Towers.