Commentator Glenn Beck arrives for "Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World" gala in New York in this May 4, 2010 file photo (Reuters)

The Huffington Post is reporting that the MLB is receiving pressure to drop former Fox News host Glenn Beck from their programming due to his prior controversial comments. MLB Advanced Media, the digital rights arm of Major League Baseball, streams GBTV, where Beck touts �the truth lives here.�

The group protesting Beck and the MLB is called Americans United for Change and they launched a website called Strike Out Beck. The website features Beck�s most controversial remarks and fans can sign a petition pressuring the MLB to drop him. The group will also launch a Facebook ad campaign in big baseball towns like St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Orlando.

To be honest, I�ve haven�t watched a single episode of Glenn Beck�s prior show on Fox. And I�ll be more than happy to skip his online show.

That being said, I think this launch to get Beck off online streaming is a waste of perfectly good energy. Why should Glenn Beck critics waste time fighting the people who chose to buy and listen to his programming? It�s not on a major network for goodness sake.

There are starving children in America and Africa. We have soldiers dying overseas everyday fighting in a war that I can�t comprehend. People are losing their homes and jobs, we have a morally corrupt society that transforms sex-tape �victims� into reality stars and a professional sports system in America that can�t seem to keep it together without having lockouts every 5-10 years.

It costs $9.95 a month to subscribe to Glenn Beck�s show and $99.95 for a yearly subscription. But the cost to skip Glenn Beck�s ranting is absolutely free.

Jean Cajou, center, of Mount St. Mary's, goes up against Sacred Heart's Chauncey Hardy (22) and Eugen Pettway, right, during the Northeast conference championship men's basketball game in 2008 . (AP Photo/Douglas Healey).

Because Chauncey Hardy was playing in Romania instead of somewhere near Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, I understand why his death isn�t deemed largely important or interesting to American media.

But it should be. It should also be a sobering reality for NBA players and owners alike that no matter how wide the gap is in their negotiations, there are few better countries to play professional basketball than in than America. Because if you get beat up in a bar after a game, you can at least expect decent medical care.

Chauncey Hardy shouldn�t have died that way. He shouldn�t have been brutally attacked in a Romanian bar, beaten into a coma, neglected by police and doctors until Hardy took the last breath of his 23-year-old life thousands of miles away from his family. Surely, his family must have thought he would be safe in his first season overseas. Isn�t that life supposed to be exotic and glamorous? Isn�t that life what NBA players are leveraging over owners� heads?

I am outraged about the Romania health ministry�s report that concluded two doctors were negligent in their treatment of his fatal injuries. Judging by the egregiously mishandled care of Chauncey Hardy, it�s hard to believe that we know the full truth about the circumstances surrounding his death.

Was he really attacked by one bar patron? Or was he attacked by a group of men with more than a handful of lethal punches and attacks? How long did it really take police to respond to the call about an American being beaten near death in a local bar? How in the world could doctors think his injuries were just due to �drinking�? Did they not see blood and bruising? Were his teammates nearby? Did they see what happened? Will the Hardy family ever get true justice?

This story hit a little too close to home. Chauncey Hardy could have been my brother. He�s played professional basketball overseas for nine years and I thank God for his safety everyday.

But Hardy was someone�s son, someone�s friend and someone�s teammate. And this should never happen.