Baseball chicanery
Posted in sports on 04/30/2009 07:22 am by seiyaNice story by Andrew Baggarly of the Mercury News. Excerpt:
Joe Martinez was low man on the service-time totem pole to begin the season. That meant it was his job to take snack orders out to the bullpen for road games. … (after Martinez’s injury) Merkin Valdez became low man. But he couldn’t use a bag with Joe’s name on it. So someone found a very nice, glittery, light purple Tinkerbell backpack for him. He used it twice. Then Osiris Matos got called up. Merkin, you’re off the hook.