Nick Luciani

The irony of baseball is that everyone understands it wasn’t meant to be a contact sport, but yet when a player gets injured due to an overly-aggressive play, many people argue that you cannot fault a player for playing hard. During a regular season game the story blows over by the time the next game starts, but in the playoffs it’s a whole different animal and the debate will never end. After watching the now-infamous slide tackle by The Notorious C.H.A.S.E., I decided to consult with a couple of the brightest minds in high school baseball here on Long Island to get their take. Their opinions fell in line with what I expected. “I’m all for hard nosed play but it can’t be dirty. I felt his slide was dirty for two reasons: 1) It was so late that he passed the b...