Butt Slapping and Baseball

Imagine walking into a local establishment and standing at the bar is a great looking 6'4", 200 pound guy in skin tight white pants.  Along comes another great looking guy in tight white  pants and he immediately reaches out and gives his buddy a nice whack on the butt.  What would you think?  I know what I would think.  How does that change when you throw in four bases and bright green grass?  I did a little survey of the girls sitting around me last night and we couldn't think of any other sport where butt tapping is so readily accepted and dished out.  Imagine a doubles tennis match and after every ace there was a nice butt grab going on, or Tiger Woods makes a great drive and his caddy comes running over for the double cheek pat down.  I watched a lot of basketball this winter and it seems they do the high fives and pretty much avoid the rear side of their teammates.  Football players do the helmet slams and chest bumps but baseball players (and coaches) consistently tap their teammates' butts.  I don't really know how it started, maybe the tight white pants are just too much to resist.

There was a lot of butt slapping going on at last night's game because we won 14-5.  Kevin Decker pitched phenomenally.  I mean really-he retired 17 batters in a row.  I would have patted him on the butt too if it wouldn't be considered weird.  I think you have to be wearing the white pants to get away with that so I won't try and neither should you. 

Suffice it to say, I hope there is a lot more butt slapping this season.

See you at the field.