Jonny Gomes plays for the Boston Red Sox in case you didn't know, which you probably didn't. I know it's difficult and possibly illegal in certain jurisdictions like the one that made it legal to shoot down mini-drones but try watching his Vaudeville routine between pitches when he bats. He deliberately smashes his helmet down onto his head in addition to the more pedestrian stuff like adjusting his batting gloves.
What distinguishes the Gomes Vaudeville act is that Gomes does not even step out of the batter's box.
Like pretty much every batter now Gomes does not bother to ask or gesture for the plate umpire to call time out. Gomes just starts his act. The plate umpire, of course, gives no indication that time has been called. And all the while the pitcher stands and waits like some old horse about to be turned into dog food.
Quick pitch! Throw the damn ball right down the middle and demand that the umpire call a strike. Geez, come one. At least try it. Maybe it would wake up some people and start some reform to restore some semblance of pace to to the game.
Even with lots of runs being scored as in the current Boston massacre of the Yankees at Yankee Stadium this weekend the games are all but unwatchable. Baseball has devolved into a slow boring mess. While he did not specifically cause this, Major Baseball League (MBL) commissioner Allen Huber "Bud" Selig has presided over the most damaging deterioration ever among the three American team sports.
P.S. Shouldn't members of Red Sox management, including ownership, wear a long ridiculous beard like many of the Red Sox players such as Gomes? Oh, and with their heads shaved. Otherwise, those players are nothing more than trained monkeys, sloppily dressed in their Red Sox costumes. Even Babe Ruth would be repulsed.
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