It's time for Baseball and I couldn't be more excited

Ken Hoffman is the Chronicle humor columnist, and his column today is about baseball. And by baseball, I mean his son's "select" little league team playing in Beaumont. (For those of you not from Houston who didn't travel for sports teams, Beaumont is like 90 miles from West University, where his "select" son lives.)

My first thought was that it was pretty lazy to write about how your son's coach got kicked out of a little league game. I mean, who does Hoffman think he is: Leon Hale (who today took us by surprise and became a Buddhist. Maybe my who view of the world is falling apart, ahhh)?

My second thought was that using your position as a columnist to vent about your child's coach getting thrown out showed a complete lack of perspective of the total insignificance of children's organized sports.

But then I read how the little league team came from behind after their coach was ejected. That was pretty awesome. And even more awesome was that it is my favorite strategy when playing MLB on the PlayStation. Charge the mound, get ejected, the team rallies and wins. I just never thought that is worked in real life. Sadly, managers rarely charge the mound in professional games. Something about acting professional, I guess. In fact the only ejection I can remember was this one.

• October 11, 2003: In the top of the fourth inning of Game 3 of the ALCS at Fenway Park, Red Sox starting pitcher Pedro Martínez hits Yankee batter Karim Garcia, prompting an argument between the two players, which ends with both teams exiting the dugouts. In the bottom half on the inning, a pitch from Roger Clemens to Manny Ramírez is high, and the benches clear with both sides brawling. Yankee bench coach Don Zimmer charges at Martinez who then grabs his head and swings him to the ground. Later, midway through the ninth inning, Garcia and Yankee pitcher Jeff Nelson fight with a Fenway Park groundskeeper in the bullpen.

Man, watching that old man get grabbed by the head and thrown down was so funny. If only that had been what happened in Beaumont, that would have really made that column rock. But anyway, thank you Ken Hoffman for validating my style of PlaySation playing. I just think that your article would have been funnier if you had made this connection.