You’ve heard of ‘roid rage? Apparently there’s ‘roid age too:
With one out in the ninth, Yankees designated hitter Jason Giambi left the game after sustaining an injury, apparently to his right ankle, while rounding first base on a hit to right field. Giambi, who has been bothered lately by problems with his left knee, left hip and back, was clearly in pain.
Left knee, left hip, back, right ankle? I see Giambi has elected to take on the suffering of the whole team upon himself. Come on, spread the wealth.
And yes, I’m so freakin’ bored of seeing another game against Roy Halladay and the Barnum and Bailey’s bullpen that Toronto puts out that I’ve decided to indulge my Yankee-hating instead of commenting on the win. Just couldn’t get excited about it. Do you think if I wore a Jays uniform and threw nothing but eephus pitches I’d still get better results than de los Santos? Hey, I could do with an MLB-minimum salary.
Speaking of the Jays, the first baseball stadium I ever saw was the Skydome, on my first ever trip to North America, way back in 1993. Those were good baseball days for Toronto, but even back then my uninitiated eye could sense that turf was a weird surface. Fortunately Fenway disabused me of the notion that baseball was played on that freaky-looking material…