Tats no reason to miss a game
THEY DON'T make baseball players like they used to. In the old days, players would hurt their leg or arm, rub a little mud on it and get right back in the game.
THEY DON'T make baseball players like they used to.
In the old days, players would hurt their leg or arm, rub a little mud on it and get right back in the game.
On Thursday, Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus was scratched from a spring-training game against the Indians.
The reason?
"Sensitivity in his left arm," according to the club.
The real reason?
Andrus got a tattoo on Tuesday and his arm was still sore. To be fair, the tat - a likeness of his father, who died in 1996 - is huge, from his elbow to his shoulder.
According to Andrus, it will be the last time a tattoo interferes with his job. "I'm done with this," he said. "Too much pain."
Rodman update
Dennis Rodman, the new U.S. ambassador to North Korea, met with Kim Jong Un on Thursday and told the supreme leader, "You have a friend for life."
Rodman, who is actually part of a group conducting basketball clinics in the country, sat with Kim during an exhibition game in Pyongyang.
The only thing stranger than those two sharing pleasantries was the game itself, which ended in a 110-110 tie.
This and that *
You've got to admire Lauren Silberman, who, against seemingly impossible odds, is trying to make the New York Jets roster as a kicker. The 28-year-old from Wisconsin is a former club soccer player who has never kicked in an actual game. She will be at the Jets training facility Sunday in Florham Park, N.J., where she'll become the first female to try out at an NFL regional scouting combine.
* Giants outfielder Hunter Pence, a fan favorite when he was with the Phillies, says ping-pong is an important component in his training regimen. "Sounds crazy, right?" Pence told CNSBayArea.com. "It works your fast-twitch muscles. You react. I just got a bunch of different friends and we didn't play games. It was just rallies, as hard and as long as we could."