George Carlin, RIP, famously spoofed the gentle, pastoral history of baseball, but as Manny Ramirez reminds, the sport has many similarities to football and the Willie Andrews of the world. Professional baseball can be a violent, aggressive sport requiring nerve and hair-trigger skills. When a big league pitcher towers on a mound above you from just sixty feet away, and throws a hardball ninety miles per hour seemingly right at you, well, that is a battle that players have to be ready to fight four times a day, every day, for six long months. It’s only natural that a player’s aggressive athletic instincts may regretably spill over into other areas of life like ticket allocation.

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