My sympathies go out to the Swindell family, and I hope the situation gets resolved swiftly and in a positive manner. That's for another thread though so I'll leave it at that.
I have to disagree with some of the things being said about the intelligence of baseball players. I played at the college level(not at Texas), and I never had a chin beard, never owned a pair of Oakleys, and never drove a jacked up truck. I played with a lot of highly intelligent players in high school and college. I played with someone who is now a doctor, someone who is now a lawyer, someone who went to Princeton and now works on Wall Street, someone who went to the Naval Academy and also has a master's degree. Even some of the players who majored in education and/or kinesiology took Algebra III, Calculus II, and Differential Equations in college. I'm sure at the professional level there are more players who seem like dumbasses, but just because they are uneducated doesn't mean they are not intelligent.
As others have said, baseball is known as the thinking man's sport. I don't understand how some of y'all can say you can just turn off your brain and play ball. You should be thinking constantly when playing baseball. The situation changes from pitch to pitch. If you're batting you need to be thinking about the pitcher's tendencies in certain situations so you can anticipate a pitch. You also need to be thinking about the current situation so you know what you need to do to have a successful at bat. If you're fielding you need to know what the batter's tendencies are, and be thinking about what you're going to do when the ball comes to you. When you're pitching you need to be thinking about what pitches the batter likes, and how you can get him to swing at your pitch. There's no turning your brain off if you're trying to play competitively.
I will challenge some of y'all to go read I Had A Hammer by Hank Aaron or The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams. I'm sure there are other displays of intelligence out there, but those are the first that come to my mind. Read those books, and then come talk about the intelligence of baseball players.