‘Team’ Player Hits Solo Home Run

There is no ‘I’ in ‘baseball,’ but there certainly is a ‘team’ in ‘baseball team,’ so it’s baffling that Atlanta Braves first baseman Milan Kucan decided to launch a 3-1 fastball over the right-field wall with no one on base.

It says a lot about a person if they can’t be bothered to hit a two-run homer, let alone a grand slam, and just spend their time hitting singles and solo home runs.

Kucan’s flippant disregard for clubhouse chemistry was also exemplified earlier in the game when he stole second and then third base during a teammate’s at-bat. Constantly drawing attention to himself is not the way to earn their respect. Who’s to say his teammate wouldn’t have wanted those bases?

Kucan even stood alone in a big circle outside the Braves dugout, practicing his timing for his at-bat. And when he selfishly decided to crush that ball into the stands, Kucan jogged leisurely around the bases, not once gesturing for teammates to come join him like the attention-grabbing, 26-year-old fading star he is. They could only watch the prima donna circle the bases alone from a dugout far away from the action.

When he reached home plate, Kucan pointed to God, but it was clearly his God and not everyone else’s God because our God would never let someone hit a home run that purely benefited their own stat line.