"True...but shagging fly balls is done to improve your playing skills. Jumping around in a pile of men, patting each other on the fanny,.....that's just a creepy, pointless way to get injured."
How does shagging fly balls in batting practice improve your playing skills? Especially when you consider who's shagging the balls, Kershaw got hurt and Mariano Rivera out for season. Why would they need to shag balls?
"Personally, if I did something good on the field - I would prefer my reward not including the intimate touch of other men. Thanks."
I think you would have to play the game to understand, baseball is one of the sports where celebration is at a minimum. Just look at Football, they celebrate after every good catch or tackle and when they actually score god help us. Then there’s basketball they celebrate even after shooting a free throw, the shooter actually takes a little break to receive high fives before shooting the second free throw. Baseball is all business where if you so much as look at a umpire for over 2 seconds he takes it as a show of disrespect and throws you out of the game. Players have to be allowed to celebrate because it builds camaraderie and momentum.