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MLB teams can’t play games under protest anymore Share this story Getty Images For those of us of “a certain age,” the photo above brings back memories of Cubs manager Leo Durocher arguing with an umpire over ... well, just about anything. Sometimes, depending on the situation, those arguments resulted in filing an official protest with the league, “playing the game under protest,” in the vernacular of the time. League officials would review the protest and make a judgment. 99.9 percent of the time, the protests were disallowed. Perhaps the most famous example of a protest that was ...

Hospitalized, this time at dodger stadium. and it is a frightening trend. the question is of course what can baseball do about it? joining us now. what can you do? >> i think one day we will look back and say wait, their use to not be safety netting all around the park? not that long ago you went to hockey arenas and there wasn't netting all around. now there is after a young died. a woman was struck in the head, and she died. her husband apparently made an undisclosed settlement with the dodgers. on the back of every baseball ticket, it basically says you're responsible for your own safety. t...

Frappes. 26 orders in all. wonder how the baristas felt. a very expensive double last night. ball will drop to shallow right. hustling to second base. when he slid, his diamond necklace burst. all the diamonds went over the infield. not very happy about it. but he just left all the diamonds out there. you see one of his teammates, between the inning, picking it up. an empire did the same. my question is, suince he left them there, are they fair game? do you pocket the diamonds or is that something you determine in the dugout? >> finders keepers is the official baseball rule. >> $25 million a...

>> those t-shirt things are dangerous, what happens on upper facade and mezzanine and leaning over to get a t-shirt costs $2 and have to have it and you fall over. that has happened. >> here it is. >> they have to know there is somewhat of a risk. this is the 2009 incident. >> this is actually the incident. what happened was -- >> this is file. >> that is slugger. >> the big difference in this particular incident was that the mascot, andrea, didn't fire the hot dog in the air gun. he turned around and tossed it up but still costed major pain for this particular individual. the baseball rule st...

Hot dog is going into extra innings. the missouri supreme court allowing the case to go forward. highest court ruled the baseball rule which protects teams from being sued over fan injuries did not apply to a mascot tossing hotdogs to fans in the stands. because it isn't an inherent risk of watching a baseball game. in 2009 a fan games he was struck in the eye by a hot dog tossed by the royals mascot. he had two surgeries and seeking about $20,000 in compensation. the ruling forcing many sports teams to reassess how mascots interact with spectators. we've all seen it. hockey game, baseball gam...