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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.

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Playful Barry
Unless your're the crotch.

by Imaseasonticketholder on Aug 22, 2006 9:47 AM PDT   0 recs

Barry got to do
what most of here wanted to do to Loaiza for the first half of the year! (Just kidding)

by Larry E on Aug 22, 2006 10:21 AM PDT   0 recs

It raises the question yet again...
is "crotch" quantifiable?
Licorice

by Ice Cream on Aug 22, 2006 10:22 AM PDT   0 recs

It's called a cup check:
It happens all of the time. It is a way of passing the time. It also shows that Stevie has become one of the boys!!!

Imagine Kielty trying that with Big Frank!!!!

"I think we just feel that now is our time." - Nick Swisher

by saint on Aug 22, 2006 10:32 AM PDT   0 recs

oh yeah
don't mess w/ big frank...or what about antonio perez trying that on bradley after he just got heckled?

by arch on Aug 22, 2006 10:40 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Barry Zito...
Captain Cup Check...
Proudly celebrating my 20th year as an A's fan.

by bzn5150 on Aug 22, 2006 11:20 AM PDT   0 recs

its just
Barry being barry.

by mikedaviswhereareyou on Aug 22, 2006 12:36 PM PDT   0 recs

my favorite moment from last night
After Bradley homered behind Kielty, he was high-fiving his way thru the dugout and talking MAAAD CRAZY, firing EVERYBODY up - I think his home run really stoked the fires to win that game, and hot damn am I glad we have him.

When your franchise player (Chavy) hasn't done anything 'intangible' but stand up on a bus once last season, it really makes scenes like that important to me.

I hated the Ethier-Bradley/Perez trade at first, but last night I was loving it! I will probably be eating those words all the way thru October!

by popcornjames on Aug 22, 2006 1:02 PM PDT   0 recs

Huh
Chavvy has been Mr Intangible this year. Intangibles are more than just speeches.

by Larry E on Aug 22, 2006 1:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Zito left it up, though...
...and Loaiza hit it into the second deck.  

Gotta watch out for those hangers, Barry!

Every step an adventure--Al Swearengen

by The Dogfather on Aug 22, 2006 1:36 PM PDT   0 recs

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