Baseball

We have watched a great deal of baseball this year. I like baseball. I consider it the best sport around. It is complex and intellectual.

But there is one big problem with baseball these days. It's the spitting. Why do baseball players have to spit so much? It's constant and annoying, and it makes you wonder what the dugout looks like after a game. They might as well put a big trough right in front of that fence!

No other sport that I know involves spitting at the frequency and volume of baseball. I haven't seen it in soccer, football, hockey, or hurling. What would boxing be like if the fighters were spitting like that. The ring would become too slick to prance in.

Maybe all of this was OK once upon a time, but now that we have High Definition TV cameras that can bring up head shots from across the field we need the spitting to stop.