We all love the passion and emotional roller coasters that sports take each day, each game. That competitive nature and will to win is what makes sports so great. But when does that emotion become too much and take away from the game?

Now, some might say, "There's no way you can have too much emotion during competition!"

Actually, you can. I know that emotion is what carries sports a lot of the time, but if you go overboard and/or lose your cool, it could sink your ship.

On June 7, there happened to be the second brawl in a month, early on in the Major League Baseball season. This time it happened to be between the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals. Royals' pitcher, Yordana Ventura, intentionally hit Orioles' third baseman, Manny Machado, with a pitch, stirring up a bench-clearing brawl when Machado charged the mound and landed a right hook to Ventura's forehead. This all happened after they both shared some words with each other earlier in the game.

The first brawl of the season happened on May 15, when Blue Jays' Jose Bautista slid into second baseman Rougned Odor, taking him out. This led to some words and then a hard punch to the cheek to Bautista from Odor, causing chaos in the shallow outfield grass at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas.

So what does this have to do with too much emotion taking away from the game?

It's simply the raw emotion and lack of mental toughness that leads to these violent outbreaks. Yes, at first we all love to see the nasty brawls and arguments that surround all sports, but later you have to think that sometimes it gets out of hand.

After watching the videos to these brawls the other day, I caught myself saying, "Aw man the Yankees haven't gotten in a fight in a while. I want to see one!" Although I may have meant what I said at the time, I really don't want that to happen. We don't think of the risks involved with these fights, like serious injury.

Instead of playing with some pride and acting like a professional (which they get paid millions to do) it seems like some players are too worried about "making a statement" or "showing them who's the real man." If you want to really make a statement, make a big play for your team and win the game. What happened to just competing and outplaying your opponent? You don't need words and fists to do so.

These professional athletes need to think about who is watching them. A big one that comes to mind is little kids. They watch pro sports and they dream of being a star athlete one day. So what happens when they turn on a game and see a player purposefully throw a 99 mph fastball at the batter? They think it's okay, and get the mindset that doing things out of spite is the way to go. It's all about being a good role model.

Now I completely understand the idea of having a teammate's back, because they are your family. After playing sports, you realize that the safety of your teammate is a priority, so you feel the need to protect them by reacting in a violent way. But the best way to go is to pick up your teammate by making a play like I said earlier. Winning the game would trump any negative feeling that your teammate might have had earlier in the game.

Orioles' outfielder, Adam Jones, said he was "proud" of Machado for going after Ventura and starting the fight. Now, you could look at it both ways. You could say he is okay for saying that because he was standing up for his teammate, or you could say that he's a fool by being proud of such a moment.

As far as it goes for Ventura, he has already proved that he is far from a role model and doesn't have something right upstairs. He has had multiple incidents in the past two seasons where he has lost his cool. He got suspended seven games last year after a disagreement with the White Sox. For a young guy with tremendous potential, he has yet to learn the mental part of the game.

Now back to the first brawl of the season between the Ranger and the Blue Jay; Rougned Odor clearly used all of his anger towards Bautista from last fall in the punch he landed. In the Divisional round of the playoffs last year, Jose Bautista hit a dramatic three-run home run late in Game Five. That wasn't all. As soon as the ball left the bat, Bautista stared at the Rangers pitcher and then gave the most notorious bat flip in baseball.

So this time around after Bautista was hit by a pitch, he later slid hard into second from frustration and Odor made him pay.

So how did this escalate into a brawl? All because of a bat flip from last October. Get over it. That was last season. The fact that these professional men can't forget about a bat flip from last year's postseason is beyond me. That's just a lack of mental toughness. I think the Rangers just couldn't let go of the fact that they blew the series and had to watch the Jays play in the ALCS.

So away from all of this drama, what should be the correct suspensions or consequences for these actions?

After this particular brawl, Odor was hit with an eight game suspension while Bautista only got one game. Jays' pitcher, Jesse Chavez, got three games and Rangers' Elvis Andrus got ticketed with one game as well. Jays' manager, John Gibbons, received three games while six other players and coaches were fined. Is that enough?

In the Orioles and Royals melee, Yordana Ventura received a nine game suspension and Machado only got four games (even though he was the one who got the first punch in). For Ventura and Machado, these were both their second suspensions in the last couple seasons for incidents with other teams. When will they learn that enough is enough and to play the game right?

Suspending these guys only a few games, especially ones in their second offense, isn't doing much justice. Some of these guys probably want a few days off anyways considering it's a 162 game season. I think the MLB needs to crack down and really punish these guys. Yes, disagreements and fights are going to happen between teams but when it gets out of hand it looks bad on the team's organization and the league.

It's really hard to find athletes with really good character these days and these brawls show it. If we want young athletes to grow up and follow in the footsteps of their role models, we need to give them the right role model. Suspending some guys a few games probably won't teach them anything. Somewhere up in the heads of some of these players contains a lack of integrity and hopefully something will help that.

But as far as the MLB goes, what is the right suspension? Can there ever be enough consequences or are we going to keep watching these "professionals" stray away from the game and use their fists?