Should Johnny Bench lose his place in the Hall of Fame for stating that, not once but twice, on MLB Network shown this afternoon during an interview with Brian Kenny, who let it go both times. It may have been recorded in 2019. I can't find it.
They were discussing how signs between the catcher and pitcher worked and ways to prevent the other team from interpreting and relaying to the batter. Bench emphatically stated that if a runner at second base was "stealing" the signs that he could see the catcher giving to the pitcher, that his team, the Cincinnati Reds, would hit him in the head the next time the runner came to bat. Not brush him back. Not knock him down. Not hit him in the rear end. "Hit him in the head." Again, Johnny Bench said it twice.
In New York State murder two is "depraved indifference for human life".
Most of the criteria for the Hall of Fame is about character. Does character count after a former player has been elected and inducted? Can he be deducted? He should. The extreme question on this is suppose you have an O.J. situation. The guy does something totally unrelated to the sport. What, if anything, do you do? Only the baseball Hall of Fame has character as an essential criteria. The football and basketball halls do not.
With the recent Hall of Fame voting and the rejection of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens for PED use, people who still take it seriously were agonizing of this stupid issue. Do any of them give Bench's statement a second thought?
This particular advocacy of lethal primitive justice was done on the league TV network. What the heck?
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| Johnny Bench signing autographs at an event in Houston, Texas in May 2014. Author: EricEnfermero commons.wikimedia.org |
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