‘Round the Bases…
Wool out, Polyester In: On Opening Day, the sport will doff the traditional wool cap in favor of a new polyester blend model designed to wick away sweat before it can stream down a player’s face.
The change is part of commissioner Bud Selig’s focus on boosting player performance, a Major League Baseball official said, and follows a general trend toward moisture-managing “performance” materials in sports apparel.
And … “They look exactly the same, they breathe more and they won’t shrink,” Verlander said. “The best thing is, when it rains, the hats won’t stink like the wool ones did.”
Well, as much as I love the tradition of the caps – it’s a welcome change for me personally. I love the old fitted wool caps, but since I like to play a lot of sports outside with my cap on, and often to go ball games in the sweltering mid-Atlantic in the summer, the caps tend to shrink, smell and stain. More often than that not, after a wash or extended periods of time outside, the cap loses its shape.
Although the change may be radical to me, it’s a good thing and may serve all us cap wearers well.
Barry Bonds is a Fool. While being interviewed by reporters yesterday in camp, he said this:
“Let them investigate. Let them, they’ve been doing it this long,” Bonds said Tuesday after his first workout this year with the San Francisco Giants. “It doesn’t weigh on me at all — at all. It’s just you guys talking. It’s just media conversation.”
Buddy, I know you’re rich and arrogant, but it’s not a good idea to f**k with the government in anything. You might want to keep your mouth shut.
Baby, let the circus begin…
Read what Sooze and Lizzy of the Babes Who Love Baseball Say about the Issue…
Big Z got his Money: Ace pitcher and sometimes home run hitter, Carlos Zambrano and the Cubs agreed to a $12.4 million, one-year contract Tuesday, avoiding salary arbitration by striking the deal just before the scheduled hearing.
The A-Rod Saga, We Cover It So You Don’t Have to…
Ah, the media is so having fun with this. I miss living in
My favorite paper of them all, the
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/499447p-421115c.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/499448p-421116c.html
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/sports/baseball/21yanks.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin
Bernie Williams:
From NY Newsday: “The Bernie Williams watch came to an end yesterday, as his agent confirmed that the outfielder would not be accepting the Yankees’ offer to come to spring training on a non-guaranteed, minor-league contract.â€?
It sounds like the beginning of the end, unless the two sides can come to an agreement.
* photos from the baltimoresun.com, photofile.com, & cnnsi.com
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