Chien-Ming Wang gets hurt running the bases last night and whose fault is it? According to Hank Steinbrenner it is the NL’s fault because they have the pitchers bat and run the bases. Here’s another Hankism:
“Truthfully, the NL owners should be concerned with it, even with the practice their pitchers get doing it. You don’t need to lose your best pitcher. The pitcher has enough work to do. It’s something Bud (Selig) needs to address and he needs to address it soon. Don’t give me that traditionalist crap. We go to these NL cities, draw great crowds and we end up losing one of our best pitchers. I’m not happy.”
Mike Musinna must have been drinking some of the dumbass cool-aid because he jumped on the Hank bandwagon with this:
“AL pitchers are at the most risk because we don’t run the bases,” Mussina said Sunday. “When you get four or five at-bats, at most, and get on base a couple times, you never know. We run in a straight line most of the time.”
Maybe we should change all tracks around the country to take out the turns so runners don’t get hurt. I can be really hard to run bases, I don’t think they even get to that part of the game until players reach T-ball.
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