Former Pitcher Dirk Hayhurst and the potential criminality of unwritten baseball customs

Dirk Hayhurst is a former major league pitcher(mediocre) but also a noted author, and a broadcaster and commentator. A few days ago he wrote an excellent article about the absurdity, inconsistency, and arbitrariness of the baseball custom known as the unwritten rules of baseball. He was responding to an article written by Tim Kurkjian's earlier piece on the same subject that claimed to have compiled an exhaustive and intelligible list of the customs. Hayhurst exclaimed, "instead what I got was what more of the same: piles of oblivious, hypocritical, contradictory bullshit."
Among other arguments, Hayhurst argues that the unwritten rules are a poor example for our youth who are exploring a possible career in the game. For me the most interesting and salient point was his labeling of some of the customs as pure criminal in behavior.
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