What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on out there?

[noirwestern]

We're just cutting right to the chase with this one. No messing around with coach suspensions, or players kicked off the team, let's just sack the lot of 'em.

California university suspends entire baseball team

The University of California, Davis also put the team’s coaching staff on administrative leave while it investigates unspecified allegations of misconduct.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Bigboote]

Only in the Capital of the Free World could a baseball game be canceled due to gunfire:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/17/nationals-park-gunshots/

 

[pacific 44]

Not to worry. The capitol police have expanded and they are on this.

 

[FanFromMaine]

We're just cutting right to the chase with this one. No messing around with coach suspensions, or players kicked off the team, let's just sack the lot of 'em.

California university suspends entire baseball team

The University of California, Davis also put the team’s coaching staff on administrative leave while it investigates unspecified allegations of misconduct.

www.nbcnews.com

Your title is great Slim...

 

[noirwestern]

Your title is great Slim...

Been almost forty years now gone by but I still think about him and wonder what he'd make of all of this. I know what he'd say.

 

[Bigboote]

View attachment 68620 Not to worry. The capitol police have expanded and they are on this.

This is one that deserves thousand likes. Brilliant!

 

[Vowelguy]

We're just cutting right to the chase with this one. No messing around with coach suspensions, or players kicked off the team, let's just sack the lot of 'em.

They’re investigating.

allegation of hazing so can understand why they would need to suspend all activities while they figure out what happened and who was responsible

 

[Vowelguy]

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article252848683.html

 

[Bigboote]

How on earth did hazing (in baseball, no less) become so important that a baseball team would risk a penalty like this? It’s baseball fer Cthulhu’s sake, not some sort of violent sport.

 

[cancontent]

How on earth did hazing (in baseball, no less) become so important that a baseball team would risk a penalty like this? It’s baseball fer Cthulhu’s sake, not some sort of violent sport.

I don't think the level of "violence" in a sport precludes one from being more prone to hazing than another. I don't think hazing only applies to sports in general. Hazing occurs in various forms and happens in various environments.

 

[Bigboote]

Shoulda put a smilie in on the second sentence; that was half in jest. I just don't get hazing at all, even if there were no penalties. I grew up in a small town, went to a college with no fraternities, so I never even heard of it till I went to graduate school where there were frats.