I’ve been embarrassed before, just like everyone else in the world. Even the person you view with no remorse or pity, stepping over them in the subway station or turning away from their sleeping body on the street…

Even they have been embarrassed.

And we assume that due to their position in life, their circumstances that it can’t happen to them. Just like none of us in uniform think that it can happen to us. Only problem is when we get embarrassed, it’s a replay sure to make someone’s top 10 list.

If it’s good, it’s what leads the nightly sports newscast, the ‘A’ block on ScoreCenter,  trending on Twitter and a meme/gif that everyone is renaming and sharing.

If it’s really bad, and that’s bad meaning bad, not bad meaning good, it becomes good. It can become what you’re known for, leading the second paragraph of your biography…if you’re lucky enough to have that descriptive a bio.

The point is an inbred immunity to embarrassment that is part of playing, and certainly part of pitching. If a pitcher can’t wipe free from his memory that fastball that fattened out and was crushed, they can’t get the next batter out.

It’s something that has to happen in high school, where the potential embarrassment level is magnified since just saying, “I think you’re cute” can take on massive proportions.