Over 86% of readers surveyed by this site felt Chase Utley’s slide to break up both a double play and Ruben Tejada’s fibula in Game 2 of the NLDS on Saturday was a dirty play. So, seemingly, did the majority MLB players who saw fit to weigh in.

But after MLB announced that Utley would be suspended two games for the slide, his teammate and Dodgers Game 3 starter Brett Anderson backed him up.

In case anyone wasn’t sure he was referring to the suspension, Anderson followed up by defending Utley’s slide to all those who barked at him over the tweet. In one now-deleted response, he wrote that Tejada “put himself in that bad fielding position” on the play.

To be fair, maybe Anderson meant the suspension is “a joke” because Utley’s a pending free agent who’s appealing the play, so there’s a good chance the Dodgers never actually get penalized for it. Or perhaps it’s hilarious to the Dodgers that they managed to take out the Mets’ starting shortstop and spark a game-winning rally on a play MLB admitted its umpires got wrong, and which, by rule, should have been an out.

To be even more fair, Anderson is one of baseball’s funniest, most honest, and most engaging personalities on social media. And he keeps at it, and he maintains good spirits, even while he has to deal with the likes of this guy: