I used to love baseball. I used to play fast pitch softball on a church team. I know all (well most) of the rules. I grew up thinking it was the all American sport. What happened?<\/p>\n
I now watch a few professional games through the season. I start to tune up when the pennant races start. I become a real fan again\u00c2\u00a0during the world series. But I don’t know how much longer I can stand to watch…<\/p>\n
For the pros it has now become the game of spitball!<\/strong><\/p>\n Gallons of saliva and God knows what constantly spew from their mouths. Along with enough seeds and seed pods to plant an acre of sunflowers. Even bubble gum produces a river that intermitantly\u00a0spouts from their lips. I guess playing baseball destroys the swallow reflex or reverses it. That may be stomach contents I see erupting every 5 seconds. I have to wonder where it all comes from. I know my saliva glands don’t work that much.<\/p>\n Some of the guys are very professional spitters. They don’t even have to pucker. They just put on a S.E.G. (Shit Eating Grin) and liquid sprays from between the teeth.\u00a0How do they do that when at bat? I think I would choke when running to first base.<\/p>\n The on-field team never seems to spit much. I assume there must be a cross-league rule that spitting can only be done when you are the “at bat” team, or in the dugout, or the bullpen.<\/p>\n There also must be a broadcast rule that TV cameras only be focused on the really big spitters. On my new HD wide screen I really get the full effect. I also think all those photographers with the great big lenses (in the special on field seats) are there to take “spit shots” of the pro spitters.<\/p>\n Is spitting a sport within a sport or is this what pro baseball has become? What I don’t see much anymore is ballroom adjustments. Maybe spitting replaces that urge…<\/p>\n I don’t know if my stomach can hold out for the full series.<\/p>\n ~Dan’l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to love baseball. I used to play fast pitch softball on a church team. I know all (well most) of the rules. I grew up thinking it was the all American sport. What happened? I now watch a few professional games through the season. I start to tune up when the pennant races start. I become a real fan again\u00c2\u00a0during the world series. But I don’t know how much longer I can stand...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}