Marion Laval-Jeantet has injected herself with horse blood plasma as part of an artistic project exploring trans-species relationships. (…) The whole process made her feel “hyperpowerful, hypersensitive and hypernervous.” She added: “I had a feeling of being superhuman. I was not normal in my body. I had all of the emotions of a herbivore. I couldn’t sleep and I felt a little bit like a horse.”
I hope that Ruben Tejada isn’t doing the same with goat blood plasma. He can’t be sleeping too well either after his 8th inning error lost Thursday’s game and wasted a great effort from Jon Niese (and also made a winner of the worst reliever on the Padres staff, Chad Qualls … that in itself is an achievement.) That combined with Wednesday’s non-slide must have him feeling like a goat these days. I guess that the Mets needed a guy to have all the weird stuff happen to him. Now that Daniel Murphy’s hurt, Tejada has to be the chosen one to make the spectacular plays, the errors, and the baserunning blunders. Performance art can’t stop for a sprained MCL.
Terry Collins has reasoned that Ruben needs to take a more direct route to the ball, and not pass by Shake Shack to get to a grounder. He also believes that it’s better he make these mistakes now during a lost season rather than next year when he might be the only shortstop in town after Jose Reyes signs elsewhere.
“Not that we don’t expect to have Jose here, but we certainly have to prepare ourselves. So for me this is a great time for him to find out what it takes to play here.”
Between Tejada’s shortstop audition and preparing for a failed courtship of Reyes, it sure as hell sounds like these next few months are going to be as comfortable as delivering pizza to Shane Spencer and Karim Garcia. Now that’s performance art. (More like Cop Rock.)
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