Baseball is a weird game with lots of traditions and a long memory. This year, your team may have the worse pitching staff and get the best of a team with a be

Baseball is a weird game with lots of traditions and a long memory. This year, your team may have the worse pitching staff and get the best of a team with a better pitching staff by calling for checks. Next year, when your team is better, or even the same year against a team with a worse pitching staff, you will be on the receiving end of this “zero sum game”. Not to mention, the coach who snitches will probably never be able to coach again for violating an unofficial code of conduct. That’s my take on the situation.