| Because the pitcher has the right to act as instigator, enforcer or retaliator, he is the key to how the sentencing is brought down. |
| Nobody can condone his reaction but it always the retaliator that is punished not the person who starts it. |
| Those recommendations may include disciplinary actions to be taken against the retaliator. |
| It's always the retaliator who gets punished, not the person who starts it. |
| The Internet is made up of countless interconnected devices, and any innocent routers between the attacker and retaliator would suffer at least twice in a counterstrike. |
| But Williams's scary reaction and the acute emotions the Yankees possess these days appeared to draw something out of a mild-mannered pitcher that had never been seen before: Andy Pettitte, retaliator. |
