Baseball’s long season is one of it’s greatest strengths and one of it’s greatest weaknesses. While football long ago has been able to surpass baseball in casual followers thanks to the fact you only have to pay attention two or three days a week, baseball is a day-by-day grind. This also leads to some… interesting things happening.
Take yesterday, for example:

-Brett Lawrie threw his helmet towards umpire Bill Miller and got him on the bounce, for which he will almost certainly be suspended.

-Stephen Strasburg somehow got Icy-Hot in his jock strap. My guess: somebody was trying to haze a rookie and grabbed the wrong jock strap.

-There was the whole thing with David Wright getting pulled so that he wouldn’t get hit as part of the unwritten rules.

-The Angels fired hitting coach Mickey Hatcher.

-The Orioles beat the Yankees and remain tied for first place. Although as a article yesterday at Grantland points out, they’ve been teasing everyone basically the whole decade.

-Josh Beckett, for one day at least, silenced the boo-birds.

And it is like that, day after day, week after week, month after month, from April to October. There is always something happening. Sometimes those somethings are trivial, some times they are important, but they always are happening.