Well, the punishment for last week's incident between Dodgers relief pitcher Guillermo Mota and noted heterosexual Mike Piazza has come down. Five games suspension. For each of them. Seriously. Can anyone look at the footage and point out to me the part where that makes any sense? Guillermo Mota threw a fastball inside to Mike Piazza. It didn't hit Piazza. So he tried again and succeeded in finding the shoulder with the ball. Piazza threw down his bat and helmet and ran toward the mound, to which Mota responded by throwing his glove at Piazza before setting some kind of backwards-running speed record all the way through the dugout and the clubhouse into the automobile of teammate Brian Jordan which took him away from the stadium. Piazza didn't actually succeed in hitting Mota, or anyone else for that matter. So basically he's being suspended five games for running out of the baseline, while the guy who instigated the bench-clearing brawl gets the same by hurling a projectile upwards of eight miles an hour toward a human being gets the same. And while Mota is a pitcher, and thus would never have played in all five of those games anyway, the Mets are losing Piazza for five games for which he would've almost certainly been in the lineup. This is justice?  ¶ joe | 3:04 AM |