[hole_n_one]

If Rose cleaning Fosse's clock at home was a dirty play, then they should discontinue the All-Star game to ensure that nobody gets a boo boo.

[BluesDuke]

Take another look at precisely where adjacent to the plate Fosse was positioned (he was primed to use the sweep tag on Rose; in fact, Fosse actually never got to even touch the incoming ball, Rose having arrived into his body about a split second before the ball arrived at his mitt), and then tell me Rose could not have scored that run with a good hook slide beneath a tag.

There is a distinction between disproportionate (which is what I call the play) and dirty (it was disproportionate and probably beyond the bound of sanity, but you and I both could probably name a few dozen other plays that could be classified as truly dirty plays). Rose was hardly the only player, of his or any time, to go disproportionate. And he won't be the last one, either. But if the All-Star Game is not supposed to be an exhibitionist's tea party, neither does it have proper bearing upon a pennant race. You can play the All-Star Game clean and hard to win without careening into the rough side of Cloud Cuckoo-land to do it.