Former Texas Rangers player Michael Young joined the "Ben and Skin Show" on 105.3 FM The Fan to talk all things baseball. Here are some highlights:

You OK with Jose Bautista getting drilled as payback for his bat flip vs. Atlanta?

Young: Yeah, for sure. And it has nothing to do with Jose Bautista. I'm not on that field, so I'm not going to say anything about Bautista.

It seems like a very popular topic with media and fans right now that people don't like the retaliation. They don't like seeing that baseball has kind of a very archaic view and kind of a savage way to police itself. To that I say, 'Oh well.' This is the big leagues. These aren't 12-year-old kids playing.

It is a whole different ballgame up there. Every player up there knows exactly what they signed up for in order to play in the big leagues. And the players are going to be the ones to set the lines, and if someone crosses them, they get drilled. Simple as that. I have no problem with it.

It does get grey every now and then because everyone wants to know what the proper way to retaliate is. I feel like the kid for Atlanta if it was on purpose - and I have no idea if it was - if it was, he did it the right way. Drilled him in the leg. Bautista went to first. Boom. We move on. Message is sent. That's usually the way guys want that done. I have no problem with it. I don't. There's no way you can have a problem with that because that's the checks and balances.

In football, if a guy does a dirty play, they're going to find a way to try and rip his face off the next play.

In basketball, maybe what's a dirty foul that's been a very popular thing/dirty play as far as stepping into somebody's jump shot, he's going to get down the lane and they're going to drop him. There's going to be a hard foul. It may be a Flagrant I, but the message will be sent.

In baseball, this is how they do it. There's not much contact. At the end of an inning, they go to one dugout; the other team goes to the other dugout. You don't get much interaction physically. So, this is the way there's a checks and balance system. I have zero issue with it, and I hope it continues.