Hampton, Va. - Currently on a summer internship with a computer software company, Marcus Rutledge, 20, exclaimed to co-workers during a luncheon meeting that even though he has watched televised baseball on most weeknights, he cannot remember a single specific event happening from any game.

“You know, there were some hits, some outs, usually a stolen base or a home run every so often,” said Rutledge. “There’s just nothing that stands out to me in the few innings I catch every evening.”

Rutledge admits that he usually is doing some other task while watching the game, such as cooking dinner or folding laundry, but he says he still follows the games pretty closely.

“Occasionally something exciting happens like a double play or a diving catch,” added Rutledge. “It’s too bad I’m usually folding my underwear at those times.”

In addition to not being able to cite any distinct occurrences after months of watching baseball, Rutledge also noted that the only team he has seen play more than once is the Washington Nationals.

“I turn on the local FOX sports telecast and the Nationals are always playing--usually against the Colorado Rockies,” exclaimed Rutledge. “Then I’ll change the channel to ESPN later that night, and it’s the Nationals against someone else in another stadium entirely.”

His immediate remedy for his struggle to keep up with the MLB is to wait for the Top 10 segment on SportsCenter, where the entirety of recent notable plays are condensed to a minutes-long list that is dominated by the diving catches, double plays, and home runs that he misses while scrubbing dishes or sweeping the floors.

At press time, Rutledge admitted that in addition to watching baseball on television all summer, he has also attended two minor league baseball games in the summer--neither for which he stayed past the 6th inning. He said that by that time, “you know who’s going to win and if they don’t, who cares? So you might as well beat traffic.”