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The Giants and Mets are playing nonleague games, so I'm putting my usual disinterest to good use catching up on shows and editing my next game setup...
and scrabbling for foul balls may be the dumbest US baseball tradition* there is, much less trampling women and children for it. MLB goes through like 6m baseballs in a year. Even worse are those "snot-noses" (I love the Italian word, "moccioso", that has the same double meaning) that run down to the rail to beg screechingly for balls every 5 seconds. Your parents paid AT LEAST $100 for your ticket, and now you're going to yell at the Dominican kid until he gives you a baseball? There's a clot near the RF end of the Mets dugout that is particularly self-entitled.
*close second: booing when the pitcher throws to 1B. It was understandable in the 70s when teams would throw over 5000x in a row to try to catch Billy North or Davey Lopes or someone, but now it's just funny.
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