Playful Barry

Remember a couple of seasons ago when Jason Schmidt poked fun on a Giants ballboy by placing a blown-up bubble gum on top of the boy's cap....and the kid had the gum on for most of the game until JT Snow told him so. That incident was even played out on Sports Illustrated when an article was written about Schmidt...that he was oh-so-playful.

Sitting in the dug-out for a couple plus hours, multiplied by 162 games...can be boring sometimes, esp for benchwarmers or starting pitchers who only get to play once every five days. So we mostly see them munching on bags after bags of sunflower seeds or picking their noses....(see Durazo, Haren, Zito...).

Last night, the TV broadcast showed Haren getting into the dug-out after exiting the game and into the high-fives and handshakes of his teammates. Zito was in the foreground and was casually sitting on a cooler box...Loaiza comes over to Zito, and guess what Zito does? He playfully flips a baseball into Loaiza's crotch. It was just a hilarious scene caught on TV, even if briefly.