do you remember? they were even putting out stories that the laces were now wounded too tightly, i think at the baseball shop in puerto rico or somethying, and that's why you had sammy and mark and bary et al.. who or what was wound too tightly - the balls or the juiced batters? weren't there also many more bench-clearing brawls recently, too? remember, the NHL used to have the brawls as a culture4 but even they did away qwith tyhem long ago,.