Disabled. Mentally.

Dontrelle Willis
Khalil Greene

What do these players have in common? They were all recently put on the disabled list because of non-physical disabilities. Social anxiety. What kind of injury is social anxiety anyway?

I will tell you what kind, the bullshit kind. I wonder if it is a coincidence that both of these guys are down right terrible. Willis with his 7.49 ERA and just about a walk an inning, and Greene batting .200 and K'ing about twice per walk.

Last time I checked playing terrible was not a reason to hit the DL. It was a reason to hit the minors. They are probably anxious because they suck, and know they will both be without jobs soon.

So the logic here is:

1. Guy plays terrible.
2. Guy loses confidence and gets anxious.
3. Guy goes on DL.

Wow GM's are getting creative these days. Pretty much teams can make up injuries for guys who are not playing well. Gets them a trip to the minors with out using up an option or having a guy hit waviers. The Yankees did it with Wang this year, and now we see it with these two bums.

How about players and GM's man up and play like Sandy Koufax, like a man.

Just to be fair, Joey Votto also went on the DL with "Stress related issues". In this case I doubt it was fancy GM moves, becuase Votto was playing great and was arguably the best player on the team.

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Sports, the over protective parent

I am so annoyed at the moment I don't know where to start.

In today's news, AJ Burnett has been suspended for 6 games, for not hitting a guy with the baseball. Unreal. Yea I know the ball was high and in, but really is there an easier pitch to get out of the way of? Nope just fall down. Oh and Padilla who hit the same guy twice(causing AJ's retaliation) was not suspended. Oh yea AJ wasn't even ejected in the game.

So moral of the story, don't miss a guy high and in, instead bean him twice. Preferably in the elbow/arm/hand or ribs so something breaks. Ridiculous.

While that got me annoyed its not the only thing. This isn't just baseball that is unreasonable with "protecting" players. All sports seem to be trying to keep up with over protective parents who don't let their kids know whats in the outside world.

We saw it through out the whole NBA finals. People were getting called for flagrant and flagrant 2's all over the place. Most of these plays were just hard tough basketball. I mean if we had the NBA reviewing our pick-up games we all end up with 3 flagrant fouls a night. Heck Paster Nelson would probably be suspended every other night.

Then we have maybe the most protective sport out there, the NFL. I am not sure if your allowed to hit quarterbacks or wide recivers anymore. Actually I am pretty sure next year quarter backs will have flags, and you will have to pull out the flag to tackle him. If you hit the QB its a 70 yard penalty and an automatic 8 points.

Really though the NFL rules are rediculous. No helmet to helmet hits, no hitting the QB above the shoulders, no hitting the QB below the knee, no hitting the QB after throwing.

Helmet to helmet hits happen mostly with DB's and WR's. You have two guys running rediculously fast, not looking at the other guy, and jumping in the air. Yet with all that they still expect a DB to make sure he doesn't hit the WR the wrong way. Half the time the DB is going to hit him in the pads then the WR curls his head down, But you know the DB was trying to hurt him.

As for the rules with QB's I really think they should just give them red jerseys and flags. The NFL expects a 300 pound man in a sprint to stop on a dime, or manouver so they don't hit the guy. Oh and you NFL DLinemen, when you get past your blocker, and he pushes you from behind, don't fall and hit the QB's legs, thats a penalty too.

I hate the NFL.

Just like over protective parents are creating useless kids who are retarded pussies, and don't know a lug nut from a from their Senate representives, over protective sports are just making games painful and annoying to watch. Let kids learn on thier own, let players play the game.


UPDATE:

As I suggested in a previous post Wang is now in the rotation with Hughes in the pen. I am not sure Wang showed he deserved it yet, and after his 4 innings and 5 earned runs today I really doubt he did.