The Google Doodle baseball game is simple, but a very popular web-based game. Here's how it works and how you can play it today.

Playing baseball in such an emotional vacuum could get old in a hurry. Showalter believes players must feed off the energy of fans. "You need that emotional flicker, so to speak, that makes you realize why you do all these things, especially in baseball, where you play 162 games, seven days a week,” he told ESPN Radio.

Out of Major League Baseball for an entire season now, some believe that Rizzo won't play another game in the league. That includes Jake Elman of FanSided, who named him one of four ex-Yankee stars who won't play another game in the show.