Ah, the classic conflicting of priorities! To do things right or to do them efficiently? Despite the half-assing of many a household chores, it remains a question that's as old as the day is long, which is ironically pretty close to the running time of most professional baseball games. To be clear, it does seem a bit rude, to all parties involved, for a manager to hightail it to the mound so quickly that he intersects the celebratory jog of the batter responsible for the visit, as well as sends a message that loosely translates to "I can no longer stand the sight of you" to his underperforming pitcher. That said, as much as baseball loves it's unwritten rules, are we not willing to sacrifice a little sportsmanship to speed things up? Is souring some delicate sensibilities not a fair price to pay for getting the show on the road? Sometimes you have to cut a couple people off if you want to get where you are going in a timely fashion, so maybe giving the middle finger to ritualistic detours is the best way to swerve through the traffic of a nine inning outing in mid-May. Assuming that didn't cross the baseline into grounds for a retaliatory fastball upside the face of an involved player, I'm going to go ahead and declare no harm, no foul on an act of mildly impolite impatience. If not because it's an extremely small step to shortening the game then because I'd be a hypocrite to hate on Buck Showalter for displaying the same type of irritable mannerisms you might see written across my face while on line at the grocery store.
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