I just saw where MLB is going to be enforcing a uniform "code of conduct" throughout Major League Baseball beginning next year. Aimed primarily, it seems, at what fans can yell at players and associated punishments for doing so, I hope somebody will think to add the "no throwing HR balls onto the field" into the new rules.

Geez, if I really didn't want to keep an opponent's HR ball, I'd offer it up to the other team's fans in my section to the highest bidder. I fielded - well, it bounced and just sort of rolled up to me - a Barry Bonds Spring Training HR ball in 2001 and I didn't throw it back - I gave it to a little kid in a Bonds jersey.