For as infantile as it is for a professional baseball team to be up in arms about having an already imperfect stat line tarnished by the employment of a strategy that was merely reactionary, I can't help but sympathize with the Minnesota Twins here. I mean, who doesn't hate when a simplistic time-saving scheme backfires in the most predictable of ways? I wouldn't go as far as saying that opposite field bunts to the part of a field that has been vacated by presumptuous fielders is hurting baseball, but that particular one definitely hurt the confidence of a team that now has to question the deftness of their defensive shifts. Have you ever cut through a parking lot thinking you were shortening your commute only to run into a heavier dose of traffic, or slightly increased the size of the font to make your paper seem longer only to learn upon grading that there was a word requirement? Well, if you have then you too should realize that outsmarting yourself sucks in a way that makes it particularly easy to point the finger at others. In this case, "others" happened to be Chance Sisco who had the gall to safely take a base that was basically given to him in a desperate attempt to kick start a late-game rally. It's a good thing the Orioles have strong veteran leadership that's liable to to either suspend him or spank him for getting a rare runner on base at the expense of a team that has ironically appropriated a common piece of drug paraphernalia as the name for an unwritten accomplishment in a repressed league that only blows smoke up its own ass. If not, the Twins may have had to take justice into their own hands by pegging his teammate in the temple for playing fundamentally sound baseball.
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