| Baseball is a glorious game. It has history, | | | | game, "You don't stop competing; what you stop |
| pageantry, and beauty that no other sport has. | | | | doing is manufacturing runs." |
| And in the 100+ years that baseball has existed, | | | | 2. Always run onto the field to support your |
| unwritten rules have been created that the game | | | | teammates when a fight breaks out. Have you |
| is played around. Breaking these rules won't | | | | ever seen anything more pathetic than a |
| necessarily cause an out or affect the | | | | wannabe-fight in baseball? These two guys start |
| scoreboard, but they sure will cause you to lose | | | | going at it. Then here comes the fielders running |
| respect from not only opposing teams, but | | | | to the mound. Then everyone in the dugouts. |
| members on your team as well. | | | | Finally, several seconds later, the bullpen pitchers |
| Here are a couple of examples of baseball's | | | | streaming in. And most of these people are just |
| unwritten rules. | | | | barely jogging. It is pathetic and rather childish. |
| 1. Don't steal bases when you are leading by a | | | | You can tell by the way that everyone is |
| wide margin. What is a wide margin? There is no | | | | lollygagging out there that they know nothing is |
| concrete definition, but usually both teams know | | | | going to happen. They are just fulfilling the |
| when that margin has been reached. As Davey | | | | unwritten rule that they had better be out on the |
| Lopes once said about stealing bases in a lop-sided | | | | field in support of their teammates during a fight. |