Baby Steps

San Francisco Giants’ coach Alyssa Nakken made history Tuesday night when she became the first female baseball coach to take the field, this after first-base coach Antoan Richardson got tossed in the third inning of the Giants-Padres’ game. Judging by the way MLB.com played the story, you would have thought it was the Second Coming. No, it was an accident set in motion by an umpire’s decision. It becomes something more when Nakken or somebody who looks like her becomes a base coach fulltime. Until then, it’s just a baby step. Of course, MLB feels differently. I mean, anything to draw attention away from Reds’ president Phil Castellini, right? Responding to a reporter’s question about why fans should trust team management. Castellini countered with, “Well, where are you going to go,” Castellini countered. That’s just the kind of snark you’d expect from the son of the team’s majority owner. Castellini must be a real anatomical freak because he didn’t stop with just one foot in his mouth. No, he was compelled to add that, given the “current economic system” pervading baseball, the best solution for the Reds would be “to pick it up and move it somewhere else.” Yeah, I’d be pushing Nakken’s accidental breakthrough, too.