Owners will get a rule change. Some of the biggest upcoming stars in baseball are the young crop of shortstops. They are going to protect their assets, as they should.
If you think "taking someone out" is part of the game, you're overheating a bit in your all wool Ty Cobb throwback jersey.
I am wondering what game you have been watching for the last oh maybe 100yrs or so....it is not only taught but been glorified. You don't have it like it but has been part of the game forever.
And i love throwback unis!!!
What Utley did hasn't been going on for "oh maybe 100 years or so". This.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-vu1v1DFM
.....has been going on for 100 years and this is fine.
Go back to my first post and this link addresses what I'm saying about if a fielder is behind the bag he should be protected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl-gkYlEfOs
No matter what you do with the rules there will always be contact because two humans cannot occupy the same space at the same time. But to take out a fielder viciously like Utley and McRae is ridiculous. It's not about being tough or manly and these incidents are rare so let's not overreact but what Utley did wasn't baseball.