The learned helplessness of a stretch of bad baseball reaches a point where you don’t know what to do, exactly, any more. The entire telos of the game is to win; other parameters on and off the field dictate the lanes we choose to stay in while seeking that end, but there isn’t too much point, metaphysically speaking, in watching a game with a truly preordained outcome. The Black Sox and Tim Donaghy didn’t just cheat, they broke the overall purpose of the game.
In play, out(s). Kyle Seager grounds into a double play, SS Marcus Semien to 2B Jed Lowrie to 1B Matt Olson.