When baseball isn’t busy being mired in steroids scandals, it’s a hyper-entertaining sport of men who face off against one another with leather gloves, tight pants, and more superstition than the average human can handle.
That, of course, is the opinion of your average baseball-obsessed super fan (ahem). To many, baseball is a boring game that requires some sort of stimulant to enjoy. For some players, it’s no different. Baseball requires a ton of stop-and-go performance, which, despite naysayers, is the No. 1 reason for major injuries.
It’s probably also the No. 1 reason that players make the choice to chew tobacco during games. With all that standing (and for many, sitting) around, players often choose to let their minds wander with some smokeless tobacco resting in their lower lip or inside their cheek.
In a sense, you can’t blame them: there are really only three guys playing at a time in baseball, which is truly unlike any other sport. On the other hand, it’s a little unsettling when you see Tim Lincecum throw in a huge dip after tossing eight shutout innings (not to mention the health risks involved).
On August 18 of this year’s MLB season, the Colorado Rockies suspended farmhand Mike Jacobs for 50 games when he tested positive for HGH. Aside from the obvious implication, this story provided us with a perfectly nasty photo (pictured above).
Things can get out of hand (See here: Nyjer Morgan throws his chew at St. Louis’ Chris Carpenter) at times. With Morgan’s Brewers currently trying to battle back from a 3-2 deficit in the NLCS, we take a look at MLB’s current top 10 most obvious tobacco chewers.