Hello and welcome to episode 1049 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Bengras presented

by our Patreon supporters. I have Ben Lindbergh, a good ringer, a joint batch of Sullivan of

Fang�a. Hello. Hi. We are joined by our pal Grant Brisbee of Espie Nation. Hi Grant. Hello. So there

were a bunch of unwritten rules violations, possibly written rule violations over the weekend,

a couple of hit badders or attempted hit badders and a beanball. And I like to talk to you about

unwritten rules because you've devoted a lot of thought to them and a lot of writing about them.

And so we'll get into that in a minute. Since we have you, I wanted to ask you also about

unwritten rules of fan behavior in ball parks. Because last week there was a Tigers raise game

where it was taking place at the trap and two times a Tigers outfielder dropped a fly ball because

there was some guy yelling, I got it in the stands and in Trappacana, you can hear everyone say

everything because no one's there and it's indoors and it echoes. And obviously we know that

when Alex Rodriguez did this, that was looked upon as an unwritten rule violation. And I don't

know, maybe you wrote about it at the time, I still admire that move on his part. But is there any

stricture that applies to fans? Is there anything a fan shouldn't do, I guess, other than reaching

into the field of play, which you're not allowed to do or I don't know, screaming racist

epithets or something, but other than that, is there anything that is that you would frown upon?

I guess there's a couple different answers. The first one is if you're in your 20s and drunk,

which anything goes. And if you're responsible to add with your child, then no, you shouldn't be

yelling, I got it, I got it. One of my crew goes, one of his favorite anecdotes when the

giants are playing and he's he's calling the game is when there's a foul ball that's close to

the dugout, right? The opposing team is coming over to the home team's dugout and he's he's

kind of leaning over and there's not a lot of help there. He always says that when he was playing

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