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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Baseball comportment

By Tangotiger, 02:26 PM

I sent this to Bill James, but I’ll post it generally here for the insights of the Straight Arrows:

Why does the culture of basketball accept trash-talking, even from those who don’t need to do it (Jordan), tolerate the tantrums of John McEnroe in tennis, but require different comportment on a (USA) baseball field?  Is it because the pitcher has a weapon in his hand that acts as a deterrant?  Is it that baseball is not so andrenaline-based?  And, if you readers know: what is the attitude in DR, Japan, and Korea?

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