Little-League Baseball in Big-League Wineskins

As I’ve remarked in the past, one of my favorite things about baseball is its unpredictability; its often mesmerizing and just as often hilarious unpredictability. But my favorite kind of mesmerizing–hilariously unpredictable thing is the one that involves Major Leaguers doing things that I myself (or my Little-League–playing kids) would do. Because along with being such a mesmerizing and hilarious thing, baseball is also The Ultimate Leveler. Everyone who plays it will be humbled by it, eventually.

Just ask David Murphy:

See? There is such a thing as too much baseball. (Or should that say “too many baseballs?”)

Oh, and for those that are not satisfied with just one hilariously absurd and unpredictable baseball thing a day? Here:

Yea, verily: It is hereby a True Internet Fact that Adam Dunn pitched on Tuesday night. Adam Dunn, lumbering and underrated purveyor of three true outcomes at the plate, toed the slab and threw actual pitches. Adam Dunn.

Attribution(s): “Not Too Many Baseballs” image provided by Shutterstock.