Yeah, they won't play in the rain

But this is one of those wire stories that demonstrates why baseball is played differently from other sports. Red Herring to those who refuse to understand.

And then there are those occassional reminders that baseball appears slow... and then turns suddenly violent.

Had a late-night conversation on this last night. But just imagine: this is 162 games in a single summer. Imagine the shortstop being taken out on double plays, the catcher taking foul balls off the same thumb every night for seven months.

Quitcher whinin', football. At least our players do their own thinking.

-Zed

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"The best way to describe it is that I was throwing like a carousel when I should throw like a ferris wheel."
-Jonathan Papelbon, on changing his pitching motion in 2007 to protect his shoulder