Tonight we went to an exhibition game for the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League. (Yeah, this was just an excuse to eat a funnel cake, wasn't it.) During the fifth inning they had a substitution of some guy I didn't recognize as a player, and soon they announced he was actually the winner of a one-day contract with team offered on eBay. So he manages to survive in the field with embarrasing himself, and since the contract states that he gets to bat once, he comes up second in the inning. Now the first guy flies out, and he comes up, and here's where we notice the pitcher's a little wild this inning. So much so that the first two balls are nowhere the strike zone. So the catcher goes out and talks to the pitcher "There's no way you're walking the eBay guy." And then just as the catcher goes back, the coach walks up, saying "There's no way you're walking the eBay guy." So after they leave, the pitcher throws a strike, and then he doesn't walk the eBay guy.

He beans him.

Okay, he hits the guy in the shoulder, but it's not as good a story. But still, nothing like paying good money to get smacked around.