I hate to follow up a positive post with one that leans critical. One of the things about a nice scoreboard page of a local sports section is the ability to see every box score from a given day on the same page.

Some would argue that the digital scoreboard serves the same purpose, but in the end you have to click on a particular game to check out the results/numbers. Looking at the entire day at once, you can spot trends-both good and bad.

While checking out yesterday’s games (Sunday June 2nd) I noted the proliferation of crappy hitters-many stealing money from their respective teams. I’m sorry to say that several of the guilty parties are guys that I like. And yesterday wasn’t a one-off either.

Sit down for a minute. There were 33 players with sub-.200 batting averages. No matter how one spins it, that’s unacceptable regardless of how much they are getting paid. Hitting a baseball is extremely difficult, but success in less than 1/5 is horrible. Even weather forecasters aren’t that bad. With apologies to the aforementioned western stars, I’m not sure if this is bad or ugly.