Lewis' premise is still baloney. There are myriad reasons simply getting on base help his team and does more than boost his average.
1) Pitcher must throw more pitches...get to the bullpen sooner. Helps Jays.
2) Instead of the 789 hitters the following inning. Now the pitcher must face 891, presumably putting more…

Honestly, it's the pitchers who are the pussies. It's not like position players (who don't play for Atlanta or St. Louis) are like "That pitcher didn't groove me a fastball down 7-0, HE GON GIT IT NOW". Pitchers need to shut the fuck up and do one thing, get the guy at the plate out.

I think Colby Lewis is a fucking asshole who should worry about how to get hitters out — because his ERA says he cannot — before he worries about what players on the other side are doing for their own benefit.

Same. Don't want players bunting with a lead? Don't fall behind. When I played ball, even with a threat of a HBP looming, if my team was up 7-0 and I had a chance to swipe second, I was fucking take it; I had once been on the right end of a comeback after being down 9-0, so in my mind, no lead was ever safe. Fuck…

Baseball players (especially some pitchers) have become the biggest pusses. Don't show me up when I serve it up and you launch one into the stands, don't bunt in a certain situation. But I will certainly let everyone know I ended an inning with a strikeout and will run out ALL THE WAY FROM THE BULLPEN for a fucking…

You know what's another unwritten rule? If you play the shift, expect a bunt into the hole. Only difference is, that one's unwritten because for people smarter than Colby Lewis it's blindingly obvious.

Do other sports have an equivalent to just how easily baseball players get mad over stupid shit?

Hopefully, teams will trollbunt against good ol' Colby the rest of the year and we'll have our first ever MLB in-game aneurysm.

If you played the game the"right way" with a 3rd baseman, this wouldn't happen to you.

Seriously. This is 10x dumber than any of the times Brian McCann dumped in his pants.

as a lifelong baseball fan I'm finding it harder and harder to defend the game. Idiots like this are past of the reason.

Colby has always been ultra-sensitive due to his cousin Parker' s legendary unbeaten streak.

that bunt has nothing to do with any "unwritten rules" and everything to do with Lewis being an idiot.

No matter his take, bunting against the shift is still less egregious than an ERA north of 6 and a 1.84 WHIP.

Untitled is one of my favorite Marvel comic series.

May 3: Untitled

Classless. Alexi Lalas will stop at nothing to get back in the game.

When I heard about the Sounders making someone's dream come true by signing him, I assumed we were speaking about Freddy Adu.

This is actually how Justin Smoak started playing for the Seattle Mariners next door. He just never left and management didn't feel like pressing the issue.