You also have to consider that Wolfe was pitching as well. This was the guy's first ever major league appearance at 26 years old. To ask the guy to bean Giambi and probably get suspended is a lot to ask from a guy in that situation.
Also, to put A-Rod's bush league antics to rest: if anyone listened to The Jim Rome Show today, he had Luis Gonzalez of the Dodgers on and he asked him about the A-Rod situation. Basically he said that there's an unwritten rule that you don't do that under any circumstances, it doesn't happen with any regularily, and that it's basically the equivilant of yelling "swing batter batter" and other little league moves.
If a major leaguer says it's garbage and his own teammates won't even defend him it's pretty obvious it's a garbage move and there's no defense for it.
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