Baseball Players Need to Stop Whining About the Unwritten Rules.

Every sport has its “unwritten rules”, but to me, it seems like baseball has the most. Luckily the sport is getting away from a lot of the unwritten rules, but some of the older players still hold onto them, and to some extent, some of them still exist. The rules that still exist have to do with when a team is getting blown out, in which you’re not supposed to steal a base, or if a position player is pitching, you’re supposed to not try to do anything against them. The rules that some players still hold onto, more specifically the older ones, are that bat flipping and celebrating home runs aren’t allowed. Also, some pitchers think that if you look at them, that’s breaking some sort of unwritten rule as well. To me, all of this is ridiculous, and most unwritten rules in sports shouldn’t exist. Some are necessary, like in a hockey fight how a player shouldn’t continue pounding another player into the ice if they’re down or injured, but most exist because a lot of professional athletes, specifically in baseball, are huge crybabies. There’s a simple solution to not giving players a situation where they would break an unwritten rule; just don’t do something that puts them in that situation. If you don’t want a player to flip their bat and pimp a home run, don’t give up the home run. If you don’t want a player to hit a home run off of a position player when you’re down 10-0, don’t put a position player in to pitch. If you don’t want a player to steal when you’re down 10-0, get a better catcher that can throw players out. For the most part, breaking unwritten rules results from one team giving the other team a reason to break said rules, and if you don’t want that to happen, don’t put that player or team in the position to do so. The larger problem with this is how players handle other players breaking an unwritten rule. The pitcher, who can throw a solid projectile over 90 miles per hour, throws said projectile at a player’s head or back, something that can result in serious injury or, in extreme cases, death. While it didn’t kill him and it was unintentional, baseball fans know about Adam Greenberg, who basically had his career ended after taking a pitch to the back of his head. He attempted a comeback, but the pitch that hit him caused him to have to deal with vertigo symptoms, he eventually had to give up on his dream. That was something that was a freak accident and completely unintentional, but these pitchers who get their feelings hurt like a little league player after they throw a bad pitch, something that is their fault, and throw a ball at someone’s head and intentionally try to hurt them, really need to look at themselves in the mirror and evaluate their approach. Instead of getting mad and intentionally trying to hurt someone, maybe try working at getting better and not throwing a pitch to give up a home run. While, thankfully, this unwritten rule stuff is going away, it still exists for some reason, and it’ll be great for the game once it’s out completely.