Personally speaking, I would like to see television cameras stay out of the dugouts during Major League baseball games and let the players, managers, and coaches have their time in their houses without television Tom Peeping on their affairs.
I don't know about you, but I do not enjoy watching players mop their sweaty faces with towels, cough up and spit, or blow their noses.
Neither do I enjoy watching players enter the dugouts to throw gloves and clipboards, break bats, or bash trashcans to smithereens.
Team owners and managers could do something to curb the behaviors of toddlers in the dugouts if they would take a page from Parenting 101: send the bad boys to their rooms for the night, with no TV or WIFI, and they will come to the breakfast table with a new attitude.
Would it be fair to say, however, that television likes a little fire in the kitchen to fuel the flames of sensationalism, which turns our attention away from a baseball game that is happening on the other side of the chalk line by focusing our eyes on a player massaging his big toe after getting plunked by a pitch in the batter's box?
Oh, my! Zoom in. That's enough to bring a mother in TV land to tears!
Today, on the other hand, will be another day at the ballpark, featuring a new game with a new set of players, and we can count on television cameras to be in the dugouts, Tom Peeping at its best---while there's a game going on just over the chalk line.
I don't know about you, but I do not enjoy watching players mop their sweaty faces with towels, cough up and spit, or blow their noses.
Neither do I enjoy watching players enter the dugouts to throw gloves and clipboards, break bats, or bash trashcans to smithereens.
Team owners and managers could do something to curb the behaviors of toddlers in the dugouts if they would take a page from Parenting 101: send the bad boys to their rooms for the night, with no TV or WIFI, and they will come to the breakfast table with a new attitude.
Would it be fair to say, however, that television likes a little fire in the kitchen to fuel the flames of sensationalism, which turns our attention away from a baseball game that is happening on the other side of the chalk line by focusing our eyes on a player massaging his big toe after getting plunked by a pitch in the batter's box?
Oh, my! Zoom in. That's enough to bring a mother in TV land to tears!
Today, on the other hand, will be another day at the ballpark, featuring a new game with a new set of players, and we can count on television cameras to be in the dugouts, Tom Peeping at its best---while there's a game going on just over the chalk line.
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