Spittin'!!!!

TR Baker asked this question the other night while watching one of the baseball play-off games.
Is there any other sport that involves as much spitting as baseball?

Is it a pre-requisite and part of the hiring process?  I can hear the owners and coaches now...

• He pitched 2000 no hit games but more importantly, won the national spitting contest at his local state fair!
• He's the world's best home run hitter but better than that, he "spit" out a fire in his home.
• He caught the most fly-balls for the season and contributed to the survival of the rain forest with his spitting!

And what are they spitting?  I watch them put a handful of some kind of seeds in their mouth and then (apparently another huge talent) somehow, inside their mouth, open the husk for the seed and "spit" the shell!  Is it tobacco?  I thought that was against the rules anymore!  My grandson says they're chewing bubble gum (Big League Chew).  If it's bubble gum and they spit it out, how come all the players don't have "gum-stuck" shoes?  And then I see what must be just plain spit!  

How can we stand to watch the game?  It's disgusting when you think about it.  The other night when TR began this discussion we monitored the next 2 minutes of the broadcast and EVERY player the camera showed was spittin'!!!!  I wonder what their mothers think as they watch their sons spit on TV?

And if that isn't enough, late in the game, check out the "floor" of the dugouts.  So glad I don't have to clean that up!

As popular and acceptable as it seems to be, you'd think spit would be used everywhere.

Song title - Spittin' on the dock of the bay...

Nicknames of famous people - Spit Romney

Articles of clothing - Spittens

What can you add to this list?  Am I the only one who wonders about this?  Well, one thing's for sure.  The play-offs are winding down to be followed by the world series, to be followed by a baseball vacation, to be followed by spring training, to be followed by another season.  What do those players do with all that spit in the off-season?

Top of the 8th - Tigers/8, Yankees/1.  Is the Yankees dugout worse than the Tigers?

OK, enough already!!!!!  Happy Thursday evening!

Please don't stop praying for my friend Pat.