Let’s say you want to get someone’s attention. Channeling a little Clint Eastwood isn’t a bad way to go.
Let Mariners manager Scott Servais explain.
"Coming out of the (All-Star) break," he said, "our baserunning was something that we wanted to get better. We’ve been trying to come up with ways to get players to have more awareness about what we’re doing.
"So on a daily basis, we’re running (a tape of) the Good, the Bad and the Ugly from the night before. We run it in our hitters’ meeting."
It doesn’t involve clips from Eastwood’s seminal 1996 spaghetti western, but that’s the inspiration: The Mariners watch taped highlights of their baserunning from the previous game.