Lasers in the Outfield. Sounds like a major motion picture coming to a Cineplex near you. Turns out it's just another high-tech baseball innovation that won't be coming to an outfield near you, me or Yasiel Puig.
Of all the unlikely controversies we've seen in baseball in the 21st century, this one might be the hardest to fathom. Not to mention the hardest to follow.
This situation erupted a week and a half ago, when those free-thinking Los Angeles Dodgers showed up in New York and asked the groundskeeper of their good buddies, the New York Mets, if they could paint a few marks in the Citi Field outfield before the game.