Several, actually.

I love baseball, study baseball, spend hours on hours watching it. But some things I don't understand.

If a starter's arm will fall off after 100 pitches, why waste so many between innings? These guys are throwing 90 pitches plus another 50 between innings, albeit not at full speed. So another 20 late in the game are going to result in injury and ineffectiveness? Absolute nonsense.

Why does nobody pitch high in the strike zone? If you miss by three inches trying to put the ball under the batter's belt the ball is now right in his wheel house. Put it three inches above his shoulders and he probably isn't quick enough to make solid contact.

Why not hit the first pitch if it's the one you want? "Money Ball" is a good concept, but how you implement it depends on the situation. If the pitcher is aiming the ball over the plate to get ahead in the count, there are going to be times when the appropriate response is to smoke the ball. And it never hurts to keep pitchers and catchers off balance.

If Willie Randolph is a dolt who needs to lose his job in 2008, and was a genius in 2005 when they won 97 games, at what point did he get stupid? Was a head injury involved? Did he wake up in the opposite of a Holiday Inn and forget everything he knew? Or was he not that smart when the team was winning and the Mets front office has just now noticed?

Why do teams give the ball so often to their fifth starters? With off days in season there are plenty of opportunities to skip that spot, but teams keeping running out guys who are one step from AA. If there was a baseball version of the glue factory, most of these guys would be sent there. Want to win? Pick a rotation, stick to it, and skip #5 at any and every opportunity.

If it is important for teams to carry twelve pitchers to gain match up advantages in late innings, doesn't logic dictate it would also be a good thing to have an extra bat on the bench to turn around the situational pitcher? In which case why doesn't some team go back to 10 pitchers and spend serious money on fastball eating bench players?

Suppose relief pitchers are right. Suppose those cheesy little goatees are intimidating hitters. Who are the psychologically impaired batters who tremble at the sight of poor grooming? I want the name of the hitter who goes to the plate, looks out at a bad case of 5 o'clock shadow and waves helplessly at three 85 mile and hour fastballs.

While we're on the subject of relievers, what's with the entrance music? Welcome to the jungle? What jungle? It's a baseball game! Actual lyrics. "If you've got the money, honey, we got your disease"? What does that even mean? Are they saying closers are infected male prostitutes?

What of all the dedicated followers of fashion who wear their pants down over their shoes? I suppose it is supposed to look cool. What it actually looks like is an old man playing ball in his street clothes at a company softball game.

Who do the umpires work for? Not the people who wrote the book on the strike zone. Today's umpire can't be spoken to, can't have dirt kicked in their direction, can't position themselves to call the actual strike zone, can't hustle to get a fair/foul call right. The pre-1980 umpires would have chewed these prima donnas up and spit them out.

Finally, what will we have to do to be rid of the DH? Steroids are a problem. The designated hitter is an abomination.