If Major League Baseball gets its way, a habit most fans find disgusting will be banned from games in 2020.
Of course, we’re talking about spitting.
However, as San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler explained this week, spitting has become so ingrained in baseball’s culture that breaking the habit will be a “tremendous challenge” for the players and for himself personally.
He’s definitely not wrong.
If you’ve watched even one baseball game, you know spitting is as much a part of the game as the bats, gloves and even the baseball itself.