If baseball was real life, the unwritten rules would look ten times stupider

Aug 16 2018 by DRaysBay

 

Acuña matata

After the initial shock and outrage of watching José Ureña hit Ronald Acuña Jr with a pitch had faded, it actually got me thinking. What lesson was meant to be drawn from that action?

Was Ureña telling Acuña: “stop being good, you 20-year-old jerk”?

I’m not sure. I think, perhaps, Ureña was just deeply unsettled by the home-run mashing kid who isn’t old enough to drink legally. After all: How dare he?

Then I stopped thinking about it in terms of baseball...

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