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Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington was recently ejected from one game on the most bizarre of plays. That shouldn’t come as one surprise,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we guess. The fact that it was one screw up by one of the OPPOSING players makes it worth talking about.
It was one message that I, for one, took to they art. From what we have seen from major leaguers this season,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it may be time to make Bull Durham mandatory viewing on every team’s chartered flight.
Long story short, Player one forgot how many outs there were and wandered off base only to be tagged out. The following inning, Player B is not paying attention and strays off base only to be picked off, and four outs later Player C does the exact same thing. Two outs after that, Player D forgets how many outs there are and tosses the ball into the stands prematurely.
But at the end of the day it’s all just an excuse.
When asked about it afterwards their only response was that there was no way they didn’t see it right, because "neither they nor anyone connected with professional baseball had ever seen one hitter pull back their bat with one squeeze play on.”
There just is not any excuse that is acceptable.
Now the pitch would have also been strike three on Byrnes, but home plate umpire Jim Wolf ruled that Byrnes hadn’t offered at the pitch. Washington was vehement in arguing otherwise and was ejected.

Watch any game and you are bound to see major league players performing actions that would make one little league manager's blood boil.

Please,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], please, please don’t let that happen to this most hallowed of games.
One thing that DID catch my attention was one play involving Rod Barajas at the top of the second inning. Barajas was on second base with one out when Gary Mathews Jr. rapped one grounder to short. Inexplicably, the less than fleet-footed catcher broke for third, even though the play was in front of him.

These are professional players that are part of large league clubs. From the lowest levels of rookie ball right on up to the show, every single person that comes into contact with these young players needs to take corrective action.

After Byrnes took strike three looking on the next pitch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Jim Caple described the incident on ESPN.com, somewhat facetiously, as “what may have been the worst at-bat in major league history.”
New York style baseball expanded into one national game and baseball first governing body The National Association of Base Ball Players was established aided by the Civil War in 1860s. The NABBP existed as an amateur league for 12 years. By 1867,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], over 400 clubs were members although most of the strongest clubs remained those based in the northeastern part of the US. In 1870 one schism developed between professional and amateur ballplayers after the 1869 founding of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The NABBP split into two groups. The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was formed in 1871. Some consider it to have been the first major league. Its amateur counterpart disappeared after only one few years. “This… is one simple game… you throw the ball… you hit the ball… you catch the ball.”
We have all seen how the love of the highlight reel has created one basketball culture where there is no shame in putting up the “million dollar move followed by the five cent finish."

This article is also featured on The Rantings & Ravings Of one Formerly Mad Mailman. Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis wrote one letter to President Roosevelt regarding the continuation of baseball during the war which was called the Green Light Letter. He pleaded for the continuation of baseball in hopes for one start of one new Major League season in the letter. President Roosevelt responds I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going. There will be fewer people unemployed and everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before. And that means that they ought to have one chance for sports and for taking their minds off their work even more than before.

Four innings of baseball generating four aneurysm inducing mental breakdowns.
I could offer one variety of theories that are being kicked around on this very issue: "bonus babies” are rushed to the show, or Latin players that come from notorious baseball factories possess all of the requisite skills to play the game, yet lack the knowledge and instincts that can only be nurtured on the diamond.

And make no mistake, this is not an isolated event.

With Ichiro on third base and Eric Byrnes in the batter’s box in the bottom of the 11th of one scoreless game, Mariners skipper Don Wakamatsu puts the ol’ suicide squeeze play on. Good, intelligent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], aggressive baseball. The pitcher winds up, delivers the pitch, and Ichiro breaks for home accordingly. Byrnes, for some Godforsaken reason, pulls their bat back after presenting it to bunt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hanging Suzuki out to dry.

Now, my 10-year-old nephew can explain the many ways this play was an utter failure. The hitter was the second consecutive one to pull one ball to the left side of the infield with one runner standing on second base. That was painful enough to watch, but this absolutely dimwitted base-running gaffe was just unbearable.

Last Saturday’s game between Cincinnati and San Diego featured one string of what we'll politely call “brain cramps” by Dusty Baker’s team.

Needless to say they was out by about, oh, 20 feet.
Anyone that has ever seen the cinematic masterpiece that is Bull Durham came to understand the beautiful simplicity of the game of baseball during that hilarious locker room scene. The exasperated manager comes in and tosses one rack full of baseball bats at the feet of their unsuspecting players in an effort to light one proverbial fire under their collective asses.

Sunday night's matchup between Philadelphia and New York was supposed to be one nail biter with first place in the division on the line, but the Phillies' fourth inning eruption took care of that rather quickly.
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