Man...imagine how good Mickey Mantle could have been if he had taken part in these glove tightening rituals after every pitch...or even wore batting gloves.

It's ridiculous, and nothing more than primping and copying what someone else did because it "looked cool".

Baseball sucks anyway. Slow and boring. Ben2 has a good idea with 2 outs and 7 innings. They should add random non-lethal confetti explosions in the outfield.

If you are going to do that, just send every batter to the plate with a full count. Second foul ball and you are out. That would speed the game up.

Why do you people hate America???

....commies

I would rather see them lookin' like Flava Flave than sporting a danged FLAT BILL HAT

I hate that and then there are the ones that have it turned 90 degrees on the side of their heads. But then again I played for a coach that if he saw you with a ball cap on backwards you had better be a catcher. If you weren't a catcher then you spent time as one catching batting practice, which wasn't fun.

Hahaha

You think Micky Mantle didn’t step out between pitches? Ha! Before batting gloves it was pine tar.

I am good with this or three pitches per batter if 2 are balls you walk if two are strikes you are out.

Who said he didn't step out between pitches? What he didn't do is readjust dang batting gloves after every single pitch.

I rarely watch baseball, but just watched the first inning and a half of the Sox/Mariners game on MLB Network. Out of about 12 batters so far, exactly ONE of them has re-tightened his batting gloves, and he did it ONCE with a full count on him, then struck out. That's it.

It's pee-wee league crap that I'm still trying to figure out how it got started.

They still have pine tar, btw.

Did they even have batting gloves when he played?

No, as I stated in my post before that.

Point is, you don't see the pros really doing it that much...only occasionally. It's these pee-wee league players that have picked it up from somewhere and now think they have to do it after every dang pitch. Some of their fathers apparently think it's a "thing", though.

Kinda what I was thinking.

Sure blame the umpires.....when league presidents& commissioner have the real power. Fine the players? Sure that $5000.00 fine matters to a guy making 20 million a year. Baseball is meant to be counted by outs not time.

If thinking baseball is one of the biggest wastes of time in America makes one a commie then I am a comrad.

If you are on a schedule, don't go to a baseball game. Y'all forgot to complain about the necessary package adjustment that has to be made while on national TV too.

Y’all realize that the average time for a MLB game on TV was 3:05 and that was a record high set in 2017. The average college football game on TV takes 3:24

^^^^^This. Worst thing that has happened to the game in my lifetime.

Nope, they did not.

I can get past the caps with flatter bills (as long as they wear them straight)...........but I HATE the baggy pants. Baseball pants should be worn pulled up to just below the knee, with socks showing.

I'm glad to see it seems to be making a comeback.