Please start using pine tar (or super glue or bubble gum or anything else sticky) on your bat. Today marks at least the third time in the last couple weesk you’ve launched a bat into an unsuspecting crowd. I understand that you were in Baltimore, and their fans’ lives are significantly less valuable than Rays fans’, but seriously, man, you’re gonna kill somebody! I found some for sale on-line. It’s about 6 bucks.
(Disclaimer: This picture is not an ACTUAL picture of Kelly Shoppach’s bat flying into the crowd on Sunday, just a much funnier, representative picture of A bat flying into the crowd. Shoppach’s bat seems to have caused no damage).
I love that this guy made absolutely no effort to block his face! Everybody around him is ducking or throwing up hands and he’s busy deflecting it with his chin. Smooth.
Everybody except that guy in the black shirt behind him. Squinty eyes, dumb smirk, complete under and delayed reaction to imminent danger. That dude is real high.
Ha! At .177 (I think that’s his current BA) his bat’s, presumably, causing no damage to the ball either. I still say when you combine Shopvac and Jaso, you get one mediocre catcher. We could have had Posey, sigh….