Oh good. I do see chatter on this. You know, I was raised by a traditionalist and have rather traditional values for the game. But, I find them eroding more and more as time goes on.
I get the aspect of not swinging at a 3-0 when you’re up 12 runs as a general sportsmanship. But, aren’t we past that at this level? Where every pitch taken and swing made can end up being part of an arbitration.
OK, grown men can get angry. We should do everything we can so that the practice of guys fighting and clearing the benches never starts happening aga......oh....wait.
There seriously isn’t an angle I can see as to exactly why this should be an unwritten rule.
I’m just waiting for this proponent of such an unwritten rules to come up with “think of the children”. Fuck that. I taught my girls if it’s 3-0 and it’s the pitch you want take it. I don’t care the score. I want them learning to “see it, hit it”. Score is irrelevant at this stage anyway with run limits and slaughter rules.
The fact that old man TLR is the one bitching just adds some optic fun to this.
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