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Super Great: Dee Gordon catches the Royals napping

Dee Gordon

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dee Gordon slides safely into home while scoring against the Texas Rangers on a base hit by Jerry Hairston in the fourth inning of a spring training baseball game on Friday, March 9, 2012, in Surprise, Ariz. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

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This video may disappear soon, so if the YouTube I embed here ceases to work soon, go check it out over at Deadspin and trust that they have figured out a way to keep it up on their site longer.

Anyway, the fun begins at 1:10, when Dee Gordon walks. And then immediately steals second when Dan Duffy ceases to pay attention to him before returning to the mound to face the next batter:

I suppose someone may consider this an unwritten rules violation of some kind. Seems to me, though, that it’s a way bigger transgression on Duffy’s part in not paying attention to what he’s supposed to be doing.

In other news: Dee Gordon is fast.