Can't baseball players just be weird?
There doesn't always have to be point to the strange things they do
Nothing intrigues baseball announcers quite like players—especially pitchers— who do weird shit and insist that it’s all really well thought out and important. When we were kids (well, when some of us were kids) the Cubs had a nutjob named Turk Wendell who did all kinds of pointless stuff. He refused to catch any ball thrown to him by an umpire (which I…
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