Since when is baseball considered a "non-contact" sport? Not saying this is a bad vein but that's a bunch of bullshit. I understand trying to keep these expensive players safe and what they are doing (I don't agree) but on the other hand they are getting paid VERY well to play baseball, not softball and, yea, it sucks, sometimes people get hurt. Sometimes careers are derailed by injuries. It happens. Such is life. You can't play baseball in a bubble. Blatant barrel rolls or cleats up slides, sure, elbows, head butts, bad, but no more feet first breaking up a double play in a legal manner? A hook slide is illegal? They may as well say on DPs the runner has to veer off, out of the baseline, away from the base, like lazy runners do. There was a day that baseball players were good enough athletes to do what they had to do to avoid contact, and 99% of the time they did. I think this Utley rule is a bunch of overblown bullshit.