Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Silly baseball players

            When the field is not chalked, the lights are not on and the cleats are not laced tightly to their feet baseball players have a reputation of being childish. Some people think watching the game of baseball is boring and pointless, but when grown men act like little kids there is no better form of entertainment.
            Typical practical jokes in baseball consist of a pies to the face, chewed bubblegum stuck to a teammates hat or moving late arriving teammates’ gear throughout the locker room. Even though baseball fans may not witness such jokes on the field there seems to be a new movement of teams making funny videos and posting them on YouTube.
            Earlier this season some of the University of Northern Colorado baseball players decided to make their own series of videos to promote their first home conference series against the New York Institute of Technology Apr. 13-14. There are five videos total, and each is more hilarious than the next. Bear tipping, bear baseball news, Klawz is ready, game day and pack the park day generated a great turnout for the Bears home conference opener. The Bears ended up sweeping the series against NYIT, and in every game they scored over 10 runs.
            Baseball is a considered a game of failure, and if players and teams as a whole don’t take the time to step back to enjoy themselves and the game it could become extremely frustrating to play. The good thing is that players do enjoy the game and that makes for great entertainment.