Baseball outfielders, fences, senses and protection.

Major League Baseball might be wise to protect the safety of their players and to insure that the players need protection.  Protection is good for most everybody in various contexts of their lives, not just for athletes.

Let’s stay within the context of Major League Baseball, particularly with outfielders.  Throughout the years there have been many outfielders who crash into the brick or stone or wooden fences as they attempt to catch the ball.  The forceful velocity of their bodies smashing into the unforgiving resistance of the outfield walls creates players who are severely injured, in some cases for weeks or months or who no longer can be a ball player any more.

Among owners of major league baseball teams, one might assume that there are various alternatives to helping the outfielders, which may be good for the outfielders and the team owners.

It would make good sense for the owners and the outfielders to get rid of solid brick or hardwood outfield fences.

Let’s use Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, as case in point.  The beautiful ivy in Wrigley Field hangs on to brick walls, which constitute a formidable barrier.   What if Wrigley Field, and all other major league teams, put up cushy padding in front of the hard, unforgiving outfield walls?  The owners of the teams would save a lot of their money if the outfielders slammed into padding that would absorb much of the velocity of the player crashing into the padding.  The players would like being taken care of with the safety of the padding.

What keeps the owners from having very cushy padding in the outfield?  Why not set it up for the benefit of the players and the owners?  Why not save a lot of money for the owners and avoid injury to the outfielders smashing into cushy safety.

The main issue is simple.  WHEN POSSIBLE, take care of the owner and outfielders!  It is such a humane, kind way to use common sense.

The rules of baseball involve all kinds of dangerous situations in which players do get serious injuries, but at least the outfield wall is one case in which players can benefit from a padded wall.

If we take the context of how we all, baseball players and everybody else, use good sense and make good choices, our lives would be more pleasant.  It’s so basic and easy to be reasonable if all of us be more aware of how we live in a way that is satisfying and gratifying.

We human beings can make our lives much more troubled than they have to be.

Let me know what your thoughts are about.  You might have some topics you’d like me to write about.  Call me, Jonathan J. Brower, Ph.D., if you want.  818-707-4557