Getting Some Good Out of the Outfield.

After watching baseball players stand around in the outfield scratching their ass and doing nothing I had great idea. Seeing as how there is all that open space in the outfield going to waste and everyone was just standing around watching the grass grow waiting for something to happen, I got to thinking.

Baseball players in the outfield should really have something productive to do to earn their money harder than pretending to be lawn statues. They should be required to give something back to the fans for taking their money and not even running around. Since they do next to nothing most of the time and the world is full of hungry people who can't afford to pay for $10 beers and $15 hot dogs... I thought of a way those guys can both play (a serious misnomer for what they do in a baseball game) and be productive at the same time.

So I said to myself... what they need is to plant some gardens in the Outfield!

I mean... since they can't provide anything in the way of action or scoring, you know... those things that make a sport fun, maybe they could produce... produce.

That way, while waiting around for their chance to miss the ball 8 out of 10 times at bat and then sit down, they could put some garden gear. When it was time to run out on the field, instead of just standing around waiting to get back to their seats, they could tend the land and let the crowd watch the garden grow instead of the grass around their feet. They could maybe plant some veggies or wheat and at the end of the season reap a giant bounty of food to feed the hungry!

Maybe they could grow some corn and then there would be the chance that some genuine players from the pre-steroid years could walk out and magically entertain the crowd for awhile and take their minds off the fact that nothing is really happening in the stadium. Unless you consider the fleecing of the fans fun.

I mean there is plenty of time to drop the rake and put on the glove if they actually get a chance to run and catch a ball once in awhile... but in the meantime they could be doing something worthwhile... even if it isn't worth what these dawdlers are getting paid for standing around anyway.

Using this method we could stand a chance of getting something good out of the outfield.