Finding line between a little ‘chin music’ and cannonball to the skull

So how much money would you be willing to give up for the pleasure of hitting somebody?

That’s what the famed New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia had to calculate when he walked out to pitch the sixth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays in the last week of baseball’s regular season.

The match was a relatively important one: the Yankees were already through to the play-offs and the Tampa Bay Rays were too far down the leagues to qualify.