Why would people lose their jobs over this?

A lot of it sounds like "traditional" drills/exercises, they were just done at odd hours of the day/night.

Running through a pool set up in the outfield and diving into sand?

Relay races on a beach filling up garbage cans?

:lol: It doesn't sound like "traditional" baseball drills, either.

Did you have someone read you the article?

at 11:45pm, Broadway told the assembled players this would be their “rite of passage” to become Pirates, then sent them on a two-hour scavenger hunt for envelopes hidden across the complex.

5 a.m., after a wink or two of sleep, they were bused over to Bradenton Beach for a two-mile run, followed by relay races in which they ran back and forth filling garbage cans with sand.

Why would people lose their jobs over this?

A lot of it sounds like "traditional" drills/exercises, they were just done at odd hours of the day/night.

So running relay races on the beach should be a fireable offense - but forcing rookies and/or Ryan Dempster's teammates to dress like cheerleaders and superheroes in public.........

So you had your little league team fill up trash cans with sand as part of your "traditional baseball drills" at practice?

If you don't see the difference between asking guys to run relay's on the beach, running through pools, diving in sand and guys dressing up in costumes then we are no where close to agreeing on this.

Hell no.

They chased each other around, tackled each other, and ate snacks. That's it. All the time.

I'll hang up and listen as to how you believe that forcing someone to dress like a cheerleader in public prepares them for their occupation.

I'll hang up and listen as to how you believe that forcing someone to dress like a cheerleader in public prepares them for their occupation.

I'd say it's somewhat humiliating waking guys up at random hours to go run bases in the dark. They are professional athletes, and a lot of very highly rated ones in that system. It's a lot more exposure to injury having them run on sand, through pools, diving etc. Grossly irresponsible management of talent that seemingly goes up to at least the GM

I'll stand by my statement. The injury risk doing just traditional baseball drills is high enough. Having these guys perform these non baseball related drills serves absolutely no purpose except greatly increasing the risk of very highly drafted and talented players to injury...which happened.

I never said anybody should be fired. I said some of these were not traditional baseball drills, and I am 100% correct with that statement.