Thursday, May 01, 2008

Turned around

From the no-duh-Doug department:

In the outfield, when the center fielder is facing home plate, the right fielder is to his left and the left fielder is to his right.

Clearly Abner Doubleday* named everything from the perspective of the catcher, the only one on defense for whom left field is to his left and right field to his right.

It's not a pitcher's sport; it's all about the catcher.

* used possibly as a euphemism for whoever invented baseball.

5 comments:

  1. Doug, is there some sort of deep "pitcher-catcher" message here?

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  2. I don't know, Jake. Do you think there's a deeper meaning?

    (Tell me about your childhood...)

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  3. I dunno, I find the whole thing very homo-erotic...

    ...add banter from two of my favorite online bloggers and stir for further entertainment...


    jenji

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  4. I love the way my readers' minds work.

    Disturbed by that, but love it, too.

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So, what do you think?