Random Thoughts: The MLB edition

[Isitjustme?]

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread for just random baseball that doesn't really deserve its own thread. A lot of times I have comments I want to make on teams/players or things in general but don't think they merit starting a thread and/or don't feel like bumping a semi-relevant five year old thread.

To be clear this shouldn't resemble that other Random Thoughts thread or even worse that Quattro thread. In other words it shouldn't look like the world's tiest shoutbox, but just a place to put interestng that doesn't deserve its own thread. There's no need for semi-witty, self aware douchiness or lame dry humor just baseball ddiscussion with jokes where appropriate.

Anyways, I really liked this Willy Mo Pena piece:

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/...d-wily-mo-pena

Its kind of long but if you are a fan of sportswriting in general, I think this is a real good example of it. People always complain about ty writers/writing but don't often enough provide what they think are examples of good sportswriting unless it conforms to their general agenda/views on something. Anyways, I'm sure this Pena guy has been subjected to a thousand Pedro Cerrano comparisons and Jobu jokes.

[TheMACHINE]

my random thought. If a manager gets ejected...can he still make decisions from inside the clubhouse? lol

[lefty]

Would you like 5 innings instead of 9?

[Isitjustme?]

my random thought. If a manager gets ejected...can he still make decisions from inside the clubhouse? lol

He's not supposed to. tbh the time Bobby Valentine was ejected and put on a t-shirt, glasses, and eyeblack on his upper lip like a mustache and stood in a hallway leading to the dugout was legendary. Unfortunately mlb doesn't allow any game footage on youtube but there is this vid of him discussing it.

[Isitjustme?]

[Isitjustme?]

Brian Wilson at the ESPYs.

[Booharv]

I'm just glad he's covering his junk.

[Isitjustme?]

Diamondbacks' bullpen catcher eats disgusting , and takes physical abuse for money.

Pitcher Livan Hernandez became something of a sadistic benefactor when he arrived in Arizona in 2006. Motuzas said Hernandez once paid him $3,000 to drink a gallon of milk in 12 minutes. The two also hammered out a deal that permitted Hernandez to punch Motuzas in the groin for $50 a pop whenever he felt the urge. Motuzas would receive a $300 bonus after every 10th punch.

Motuzas, 39, freely volunteers his feats. How about the day he dry-shaved his armpits and left a thick coating of medicinal hot balm on them for an entire game? ("It burned so bad.") Or ate 11 bananas in four minutes? ("That's easy stuff.") Or the time he let pitcher Dan Haren fire at him from close-range with a BB gun? ("He'd shoot me right in the earlobe.")