Baseball Spikes Make Good Weapons

I don’t know how they do things in Topeka, but where I come from, anything goes while playing some sandlot baseball, up to and including digging your spikes into another player on purpose. We call these “prison rules.” Apparently, this style of play is frowned upon in Kansas, where a teenager was arrested hours after stomping on an opposing player’s ankle:↵↵⇥Shawnee County sheriff’s Sgt. Akim Reynolds said reports indicated a player had been at bat and was thrown out at first base by three or four steps by an opposing player.↵⇥↵⇥The sheriff’s report stated the player who had been thrown out then intentionally stomped on the first baseman’s left ankle, causing a severe cut with his spikes.↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥Reynolds said witnesses told sheriff’s deputies it appeared the injury was done on purpose.↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥The player who stomped on the first baseman’s ankle then left the complex, Reynolds said, and was found later Sunday night by deputies, who arrested him in connection with aggravated battery.↵⇥

↵↵So the “assailant” -- Dominiquee Devinnaire Rogers -- was out by thee or four steps, you say? Now I’m no detective (although I do watch a lot of the First 48), but based on a runner at full stride, “three or four steps” means Rogers was probably out by about 12-15 feet or so. What then was the “victim” still doing with his foot on the bag? If you ask me, he had it coming.
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↵But hey, at least Rogers will have plenty of opportunities to put his prison rules to good use in, you know, prison.
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↵(H/T: Busted Coverage)↵