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Boston Herald sports columnist Gerry Callahan comes up with another gem/zinger in his piece today about that mysterious "clump of dirt" discovered on the hand of the Detroit Tigers' Kenny Rogers Sunday night:
For hours before each start, pitchers
are alone with their thoughts, their dreams and their hands. They
clip their nails, file their calluses, wash, rinse, repeat. They're
like snipers with their rifles. A typical big league pitcher knows
the back of his hand like the back of his hand, and he's pretty
familiar with the front, too. For him to take the mound with a
clump of something on his pitching hand would be like Katie Couric
doing the news with a piece of chive between her front
teeth.
The difference between Kenny and Katie is
that someone actually was watching the pitcher.
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