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Pirate DiseaseIf you know me, then you know that by in large I'm a happy guy. I try to find the bright side of thing, I'm pretty upbeat, and I rarely swear. I'm going to step out of that role for a moment, the following is something that actually drives me pretty mad.Before it was revealed that Oliver Perez is hurt, Pat had wrote about how this could be a possibility, or he might be trying to pitch too fine to account for sloppy defense (he calls it McClendonitis). I think both of them are symptoms of something else, Dumbfuckeritis (you can tell I'm upset because of my use of 'fuck')! It's not a rare disease: Jason Schmidt had it, Kris Benson had it, Sean Burnett had it as well as many of our other minor league pitchers. What I don't understand is that if you see someone else come down with it and you see it putting a major obstacle in their careers, why would you allow yourself to be afflicted. If you go out there to pitch, and you're too bullheaded to let your teammates back you up, and you try striking everyone out, you're not part of the team and I don't want you here. Furthermore, if you go out there and try this and give up seven runs and four walks in five innings or work and then somehow decide that it's a good idea to try it again the next time you pitch, you are a DUMB FUCKER! Then, if you repeatedly see your teammates pitching hurt and lying about it to the coaches and trainers only to aggravate it more while pitching and go on the DL for a year and a half, but you somehow decide to do the same thing when you get hurt, well then my friend, you have Stage II Dumbfuckeritis. I don't put the onus on the managers for the individual players, but at some point you have to notice a trend of idiocy running through your organization's pitching staff and do something about it. I'm glad Lloyd sat Perez before he admitted to being hurt and that got Oliver to mention that he had been feeling "stiff" lately. posted by Rory at 3:41 PM | |
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