The Blue State Conservative
Baseball is a complicated game. The rulebook for Major League Baseball is 191 pages long. The intricacies of the game’s strategies are seemingly endless, and as a team manager at the top level of the sport, the opportunities for missteps present themselves constantly. Should we attempt a bunt in this situation? Do I need to bring another pitcher in to face this next batter? Does it make sense to attempt a hit-and-run play on this pitch?
It’s not easy being a major league manager. But there are certain aspects of our national pastime that are simple, including rules that most of us learn as children playing in Little League. Yet San Francisco Giants’ manager Gabe Kapler committed an error yesterday worthy of a first-year little league coach during a game in which he chose to stay in the clubhouse for our National Anthem.
On the Friday leading into Memorial Day weekend when we honor more than 1.1 million men and women who were killed while fighting for our freedom, Mr. Kapler decided to sit out our National Anthem. Why? Because Kapler somehow thought that disrespecting our flag and the song that commemorates the sacrifice of those fallen soldiers, airmen, sailors, and Marines would be a good way to protest the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday…
