I love that Maddon is arguing that it's a "good old-school baseball slide". Guy, that time is gone. You're a dinosaur. Get out of here with that crap. I'm sure there's still people, even a lot of people that like that stuff, and like seeing retaliatory HBP, and hate seeing 1-0 no hitters broken up by bunt singles in the 5th inning, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, but old-school baseball is going away, just like deciding a guy is a "good hitter" because he has a .303 batting average. These players make a lot of money. They also don't want to spend their post-retirement years in crap-tons of pain. The catcher did EVERYTHING right on that play. He took the throw and stepped forward twice to get out of the line of fire from an approaching runner. If Maddon still thinks it's ok to slide four feet in front of the plate and spike a guy's knee.... then it's time for him to retire and get out of baseball. Take Don Mattingly and Kirk Gibson with ya.