To give a time reference, about a half century ago I saw Satchel Paige pitch in Yankee Stadium NYC, NY. I also watched the great teams of NY Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers in my youth. I watched the great Mickey Mantle in his years within a decade of Yankee domination. I watched Hall-of-Fame, Mickey Mantle’s great powerful Home Run Blasts. I watched Mickey Mantle…BUNT…to sacrifice, and for a hit, many times.

Here lies the Baseball Game crime within the San Diego Padres ownership and Field Manager decisions that have crippled the Padres for the past fourteen years. Ex-catcher and ex-pitcher field manager and most assuredly the ownership have deprived San Diego fans of true baseball passion. Simply search the Padre archives of thousands of men left on base with one or none out, and the bunt not called for in those fourteen years. Ten percent, of games per year, are lost due to this deficiency.

Catchers and Pitchers fear the bunt. Ex-Catcher/Pitcher field managers condescend to opposing managers and withhold this great weapon against tunnel-visional pitchers bent on no-hitters. Is this a psychosis driven by fear, cowardice, ignorance, or player’s contractual agreement? I address this essay to the disenfranchised Padre fan; to weak-kneed sportswriters who are afraid to broche this Baseball Game fact, as well as cowardly Sports Editors.

As Hans Christian Andersen wrote of a street urchin shouting, “The Emperor is naked.” Yes, sportswriters, announcers, and editors fearing retribution, fail to expose the deficiency of Padre Ownership to assemble a real baseball team; they stand accused of silent betrayal to San Diego Padre Baseball fans.

As the great Casey Stengel, who managed Mickey would say, “Look it up.” I rest my case.