Stodgy baseball could use a makeover

Stodgy baseball could use a makeover Baseball would have a difficult time accepting the childlike exuberance of Stephen Curry, and that’s a real shame. Jose Fernandez will strike you out and stare you down into the dugout and pump his fist. Because you got him. There’s nothing baseball can do about hard-liners such as the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner, who takes issue with any gesture of defiance from the opposition, and you wouldn’t want Bumgarner to change the essence of his competitive nature. [...] players have a right to be upset if an over-the-top celebration amounts to a direct challenge (as in, “You don’t like it, let’s go!”). In the Latin American countries, the mixture of uninhibited players and wildly exuberant fans creates an atmosphere of the highest theater.