Orioles’ Caleb Joseph goes down hard after slipping on on-deck circle (GIF)

So it turns out giant plastic circles get kind of slick when moisture accumulates on them. Hear that Caleb Joseph? Might want to be careful running across that…

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That on-deck circle can be pretty treacherous. Makes you wonder why it’s even out there in the first place.

Oh dear.

Here’s an idea: if you need to delineate a place for the batter to stand when he’s on-deck, how about paint a big circle on the grass. Then you don’t have to worry about players losing their footing and sliding right into the camera well.

I know, revolutionary idea. Don’t have giant slippery plastic discs on a baseball field where people are running around.

Maybe I’m just weird, but I think the amount of crap cluttering up a sporting field should be minimized as much as possible. Especially when the clutter represents a hazard to players.

But no, go ahead, put a big round plastic mat on the ground that gets slippery as soon as it’s wet and sends multi-million-dollar ball players sprawling around like Keystone Kops. Yup. Brilliant.

[GIF Via CUT4]