Baseball Ethic?

Question:Is their a certain amount of ethic in baseball? What in your opinion are some does or don'ts? For example there's the hidden ball play where say the third basemen carries the ball out of the meeting on the mound ussually the pitcher would be a lefty to more easily hide the ball, or in this case not having the ball.

Also what about a pop up in the infield where the base runner not only runs by screaming but sort of stops and is screaming in the fielders ear. What if he's screaming vulgar things? Ok and what if he's just absolutely an inch away from the players ear and he screams to scare the pants off the other guy. Is that an un written rule in baseball do you think?

Lastly, what about a fake injury? Say that a fielder does it to get a runner to gamble on another base? Or for example a hitter falls just short of first base while is team mate rounds third for a close play at the plate with 2 outs drawing a throw to first to get the sure out before the run scores.

Answers:

Is Ramon Ortiz the real deal?

There are "unwritten rules" in baseball. The players police themselves. With some of the questions you have asked, the guilty player will be tried in a "kangroo court" where one player is the judge and the rest of the team will vote as if they were in a jury as to wheter the player committed a violation. The scenero would take place in a teams clubhouse and no one but the players own team would be allowed in the clubhouse. The player is usually docked a sum of money that would go into a pot where the players would use to on after a predetermined amount of time. This isn't an example where the kangaroo court would be used, but one where unwritten rules were violated: I remember a situation where a team A had a no-hitter going and they were up by 8 runs, so 8-0 and a player on team B bunted to reach base in the 9th inning. Team A manager was furious saying that this player simply bunted to break up the no-hitter and that the team had no chance of winning.

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i love playing ball when i was a kid we used 2 do all that stuff but is good to c how are the laws 4 that in major leage games

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arent these the things that make baseball americas greatest sport, this stuff has been around since before you or I and im sure it will be going on after we are dead and gone. i think if we want to preserve our national pastime we need to focus not on these trick plays but team chemistry and these me first major leaguers we see everywhere today.

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