SoonerBlue

I love watching the "World Series" (yes, my European friends, I know...only if the world reaches from NY to PA), but I hate all the dang spitting by the players. I will settle in front of the TV, excited to see a good game -- but every dang time the camera cuts to a batter, a pitcher or a center fielder, someone is spitting or poised to spit. The dugouts are the worst...you can bet good money if they keep the camera in the dugout long enough, someone will spit.

It's enough to put you off your baseball snacks. Who wants to eat chips and dip while watching someone projectile spit a big stream?

Everyone tells me it's a part of the game...that it's a tradition as old-fashioned as the spitoon...it's just something that big league baseball players always did.

I haven't missed a World Series game in decades -- even when I had emergency surgery for a perforated ulcer and almost died, I got to watch it in the hospital. Funny that I don't remember all the constant spitting over the years.

Maybe it's just different camera work. I don't remember head shots of Catfish Hunter so close that you could count the pores in his nose.

I know the players are nervous and all, but this spitting is such a disgusting and unhygienic habit...and looks like it could spread the Swine/H1N1 Flu in the dugout.

Ah well, at least they switched from chewing tobacco to bubble gum (so they could set a better example for young kids)...we don't have to see brown tobacco juice dripping down someone's chin...

All I know is, in all the baseball documentaries I've watched, I never saw Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio spit.