The 10 Most Annoying Things About Sports

Retaliation is respectable in a way. After all, if someone gets hit by an opponent, his teammates should stick up for him, right?

But, it’s this kind of logic that leads to injuries. Todd Bertuzzi ended the career of Steve Moore because he was trying to get revenge for a hit Moore gave Marcus Naslund. Pitchers trying to get revenge for a hit batter will throw behind the batter or nail them in an unintended spot (like the head).

Getting a revenge shot in might be the norm, but at some point athletes either have to accept a hit, whether it’s accidental or not, as part of the game. Get your revenge in another way, like say, on the scoreboard.

10. The intentional walk

I know the point is to skip the batter so you don’t to pitch to him or get to a weaker hitter, but why do the pitcher and catcher need to turn it into an elongated five-minute thing?

Make the sign, throw the ball, catch it, and throw it back. There’s no need to constantly step off the mound after each throw, lob the ball to the catcher, and repeat the process so that the whole thing takes forever. Four signs, four quick pitches—that’s it.

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