Friday Tidbits

Adam Wainwright disapproves of the misuse of Dodger-themed absorbent cloth:
From the NY Times:
Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright, apparently a great teammate, pointed a finger at Dodgers fans. “He lost the ball in the 50,000 white towels shaking in front of his face,” Wainwright said in an article in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “It doesn’t seem really fair that an opposing team should be allowed to shake white towels when there’s a white baseball flying through the air. Dodger blue towels — how about that?”

You can't make that shit up. The spirit of Dusty Baker is strong with this one.


You Can't Knock Rick Pitino's Hustle
It's not too difficult to take shots at a guy who's continued to embarass himself following his extortion by the woman who he impregnated during an extramarital affair. You would think something like that would put a temporary hold on all motivational speaking engagements. But apparently Pitino and the 17,000 motivatees who attended a recent lecture of his disagree... Good article by some guy named Eamonn about this.

Finally a rhetorical question for you.
In the wake of Brett Favre's deification the past couple weeks, isn't it only fair to question how a man well into his 40's with a history of addiction to pain killers has been able to play in a record string of games despite being hit countless times by the strongest, fastest athletes in the world? The parallels of this situation are eerily similar to those in the late 1990s early 2000s era baseball in which everybody was happy to blindly admire unprecedented athletic achievement without questioning how it was being done.