I’m not exactly breaking any news here when I say this, but baseball is a weird institution as a whole.
So much of the infrastructure surrounding our game is odd. The concept of the defensive team being the side that initiates the action, the idea of calling a game off because it’s a wee bit wet outside, the fact that a 30% success rate at the plate makes you one of the best offensive players in the sport—all that jazz is supremely strange. It’s unusual in the best possible way, but it’s still unusual nevertheless.
One of the most interesting and peculiar aspects of baseball, if you ask me, is the fact that players basically get their own theme song when they check into a game.