Well hello, it's Monday morning so it's time for another edition of This Week in (Dumb) Baseball. As regular readers already know, this feature has the title, sure, but it's mostly for fun. Keep that in mind. Please.

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1. Stop throwing at heads

I've discussed this before, but after what happened with the Royals and Athletics, we need to discuss it again. Kelvin Herrera threw a 100-mph fastball near Brett Lawrie's head and it looked pretty intentional upon knowing the backstory. Here's the pitch and the fallout:

Now, we got here with Lawrie's dirty slide on Friday:

On Saturday, though, Yordano Ventura plunked Lawrie and for those old-school fans who believe Lawrie should have been hit, everything should have been over. Lorenzo Cain was hit in the first inning Sunday and both benches were warned, so perhaps the Royals thought the A's kept things going. Regardless, the specifics here aren't as important as the general message: Don't throw at someone's head.

This is about the point where Royals fans or people who hate Lawrie will say that the pitch was shoulder level and not the head. To those people I'll point out that anyone with a brain knows that pitch was directed at Lawrie's head, especially since we saw Herrera pointing to his own head after being tossed. If you disagree, you have a problem. He was throwing at his head. It's just that simple.

Whether or not we agree about hitting players for retaliatory purposes, let's just focus on any pitches close to a player's head or neck: That could kill someone. Seriously, it could end a life. Is that where we are, macho men? Lawrie deserves to possibly die because of a slide? We're all human beings here and attempting to live in a society. It doesn't make you cool to throw at someone's head. It makes you reckless and dumb. Clean it up, any pitcher who has ever or will ever throw at someone's head.

To any keyboard warriors out there who want to call Lawrie names (like something that would come before "willow"), stand in the box and watch a 100-mph heater come close to your head. Until you do that, you don't have room to mock him. And not that I would encourage this type of behavior in adults, but roughly 99.99 percent of the people calling Lawrie this name would be obliterated by him in a fight. Like, seriously: Roundly embarrassed. He would destroy you and you know it.

Finally, let me reiterate that Lawrie's slide Friday was a joke and I had no problem with Ventura getting Lawrie on Saturday. Don't miss this point when you're attacking me in the comments, please.

2. Saving the closer

We've already seen it multiple times this season and we'll continue to see it. Why do teams lose games with their fourth- or fifth-best reliever in extra innings while the closer is sitting there in the bullpen, available to pitch? Well, I know why, I just disagree with it. This only happens on the road, when teams are saving their closer in order to have him ready to get a save. Instead they'll lose with lesser pitchers on the hill.

What's funny is that this seems to be a stance held by so-called old-school people and those who hate it are labeled as sabermetrics guys, but let's think about this for a second. The non-stat people are in favor of basing decisions on ... a stat. The save is an ultimately meaningless stat and it is dictating the use of relievers in close games, which is just ridiculous.

I just can't get over losing a game with someone like Manny Parra and/or Burke Badenhop while Aroldis Chapman is sitting in the bullpen.

Dumb.

3. Misleading attention-grabbers

Jon Lester made this play Sunday with the ball stuck between fingers on his mitt:

And then I see the following headline on Boston.com: "Watch Jon Lester Throw Entire Glove to First Base as Throwing Struggles Continue" 

That's ridiculous. Completely and utterly dumb. Say whatever you want about Lester's poor start to the season, but at least be accurate and honest.

4. Dismissing walks for hitters

One of the reasons I hate batting average as a primary tool in measuring hitters is that walks are disregarded, even though they bring great value to an offense. Even worse, patient hitters who work good counts like Joey Votto end up being stigmatized as some kind of wussified hitter too scared to swing and constantly try to walk.

On this front, Cubs manager Joe Maddon had an excellent quote this past weekend regarding Kris Bryant's three-walk game (via Associated Press):

"I think the fans, the folks who watch the game closely, they understand the importance of accepting your walks. You don't look for your walk; you accept your walk."

Bingo.

And with that, we transition into the fun to wash away the dumb.

Minor league food item of the week

Holy mother of ...

Baseball card of the week

Again, thanks to my Uncle Mike for this beauty: Lou Brock as a rookie with the Cubs.

Trailer of the week

"Chewie, we're home."

BE STILL MY BEATING HEART

Pop culture rankings that might be very dumb

The Reds-Cardinals game ended in just over two hours Sunday night and I wasn't tired. Seriously, I'm used to watching baseball until like 2 a.m. my time (I'm in Indiana, silly "East Coast bias" people). So I head over to my movie channels and find some pretty awesome offerings. Let's rank the top 10 movies I had at my choosing:

1. Goodfellas
2. Boyz in the Hood
3. A Million Ways to Die in the West
4. Rocky IV
5. Heat
6. Lone Survivor
7. S.W.A.T.
8. Absolute Power
9. Last Vegas
10. The Purge: Anarchy

I left off Man of Steel. So some will object to that but, man, I really don't like that movie. Superman is supposed to be a happy thing, right? Why is this so dark? Shouldn't that be left to Batman? Anyway ...

How about me leaving Lone Survivor too low or 'West' being third on this illustrious list? Let me have it.

Seriously, I never thought I was a huge Seth MacFarlane fan, but Ted and 'West' are incredible. I was roaring throughout both. At the top, Goodfellas was an easy choice, but I actually watched 'Boyz' because I've seen Goodfellas so many more times. Two all-timers, though, in my very humble opinion (I'm humble on movie knowledge, not baseball stuff, guys).

Still, isn't that a murderer's row of movie selections when you're only looking for something entertaining to fall asleep to? I was quite happy. I would've only been happy with the Purge sequel, which was far superior to the original, in my opinion.

Suggestions (dumb stuff, random videos, baseball cards, pop culture rankings topics, etc.) or hate mail? Feel free to hit me up: matt.snyder@cbs.com or you could always go to Twitter (@MattSnyderCBS).