It's one thing to get plunked because you crowd the plate, and do it with a full plate of armour like Barry Bonds had (or even Prince & Rickie have to a lesser degree). I fully acknowledge the majority of hits that Prince & Rickie have gotten were not intentional. It's also in the pitchers right to try and back a player off if he's trying to garner an unfair advantage by crowding the plate. I would categorize that as part of the game. I'm a little mixed on the body armour too...it could give the hitter an unfair advantage. However, Prince and Braun have each been plunked a few times intentionally for silly baseball code reasons. That has to stop. Venters was so obvious and so silly. Mota hitting Prince last year or Karstens plunking Braun. That's just intentional plain and simple. I think Macha handled it ok too...he basically said if the league doesn't do anything about it, we'll be making a trade for Seth McClung or Prince is going to start decapitating shortstops and the league better watch out. The league handled it, hopefully that's the end of it. I do think Macha should have raised the stink earlier. I will put this out in defense of the Braves venting...Riske hitting Glaus looked intentional enough to me and the Brewers were warned. He probably should have been ejected too. Cox had a legit gripe there...he had no case whatsoever on Venters.