"Major League Baseball rescinded Chase Utley’s two-game suspension Sunday so you can pretty much circle May 9 as the date when Utley will get the real penalty for the dirty slide that broke Ruben Tejada’s leg last October.
That’s when the Mets start a four-game series in Los Angeles with Utley’s Dodgers. Think there’ll be another installment of baseball’s particular brand of frontier justice?
You bet.
By not suspending Utley — he deserved something, didn’t he? — you could argue MLB has passed the buck on disciplining Utley and made the Met pitchers mete it out. There’ll be pressure on them to adhere to one of baseball’s old codes. That’s the way players think."
So if Utley had served a two-game suspension and missed two games against, let's say the Colorado Rockies.
That two-game suspension would have satisfied the Mets?
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