Inside baseball

SPORTING GOODS

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but the Times recently ran an article regarding the notion of "showing up" the small minds who play major league baseball.

The multi-millionaire sensitive souls who play the game apparently can't stand to have their egos damaged in any way, and so a certain protocol has developed.

For what it's worth, the only things that offend me as the game is actually played (I'm not referring to off-the-field inanity.) are the incessant (and pointless) points to the sky by benighted players and the umpires' gesticulations during a called third strike. If the latter doesn't show up players, nothing does, but nary a word is ever said about it.