Ok here's the deal on the Tex slide.  THIS IS NOT A DIRTY PLAY! 

As you look at the replay pay attention to how hard Tex is running FROM 2nd BASE!  Ok this big guy has his motor running at full throttle and has one thing on his mind at this point . . . SCORE!  It's what ANY baseball player would be thinking.  I GUARANTEE he didn't have ANY time to think about how he was going to level the Angel's catcher.

Now . . . everyone put yourselves in Mark's shoes and imagine running up that 3rd base baseline and seeing out your left eye that throw coming in and at the same time picking up Jorge telling Mark to slide.  Lot's going on here ok?  Now . . . notice that the ball hit the catcher's face mask so when he went up to get the ball off his mask it put him