I'm late to this thread, pardon my interruption, but after Nunez's boot I have to comment. WHAT IF Major League infielders HAD TO PLAY on a crappy, small town, rotten, bumpy, gopher-holed, rained on, droughted-on, pig-eaten INFIELD like I had to play on, with all kinds of scary bounces ... and not these manicured, pedicured, loved with tears, photoshopped-in-the-heart by groundskeeper crews INFIELDS OF TODAY? I mean, really, if I had actually known that the ball was going to bounce true, I would have been a much better player. Sidenote: I think the professional fields "look" even better than they are, which, of course, is considerably damn good.