An apology goes out to my friend at Tulo Trader…
Troy Tulowitzki, last season’s runner-up for National League Rookie of the Year had just come back from a back injury that pretty much killed his entire 2008 season. Well, he has put himself back on the Disabled List in perhaps the most idiotic way possible, this side of Jeff Kent and Hunter Pence.
Last season Tulo cranked out a respectable 24 home runs, 99 RBI, with a .291 batting average for the first place Colorado Rockies. This season, in just 39 games he has 3 home runs and 16 RBI in 151 at-bats. To put it in perspective, Cody Ross, a man who rode the Marlins bench most of this season has 13 home runs in just 50+ more at-bats. That’s gotta hurt.
I was about to defend Tulo then I read about the injury from those stupid maple bats. Now all I have to say is…
AAAAAHHH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Ban those fucking deathtraps and just use good ‘ol ash.
Or better yet, MLB should offer a 10 million dollar bounty for the first company to design an aluminum bat with the properties of a wood bat. No more flying maple shards ready to spear a player or fan in the neck, and you can get college and high school players used to a wooden type bat and make better major league prospects.
This just might be what he needs to get him out of his slump! Giambi grows a mustache, Tulo cuts his hand open.
I hate the Maple bats.
There’s a broken bat each inning of every game.
It’s ridiculous.
Shouldn’t Al Gore be all over this waste of trees?
Uggh… this makes me sad. I don’t blame him, though. I just made a little post on Tulo Trader to make a little light of it.