Wednesday, April 26, 2006

flippin' bats

Prince Albert homered off Oliver Perez the other day and followed up with a head-down dash 'round the bases, in contrast, several stories went out of their way to exclaim, with the exaggerated bat flip (the bat, it is said, landed about 30 feet from home plate) on his previous round-tripper off Perez, in a game about a week prior.

In post-game interviews, Pujols pretty much said he showed up Perez previously because the pitcher showed Pujols up after a couple of outs. Pujols also said he was wrong to have done so, etc.

Fine.

But why did the game stories and columns fail to mention the prince's little tantrum (in the game that included the big bat toss) and then go bananas when Pujols got back on the straight and narrow? Maybe there're too many writers and not enough angles.

Tony La Russa hit the mark in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story by Derrick Goold on the heavy reporting of the flip and its aftermath:

"That's real tired."

Too right, Tony. Now, if you'd just keep the double-switches to one per inning, we'd be getting somewhere!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am sure that this entry was terribly witty and clever. I have read it several times and decided that if your only "insight" into a baseball team is how cute the butt of the short stop is...this mini-missive goes sailing over one's head...much like many a clutch pop fly.