The Gambler Loses

Baseball is a really difficult game. Players sometimes get mad. Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers, for example, got frustrated earlier this month and punched a cooler in the dugout, breaking a bone in the pinky of his pitching hand. But that's not why he's BlogPulse's no. 24 bursty person today. No, that would be because he went crazy on a couple of TV cameramen who had the temerity to point their cameras at him, a professional athlete, as he stepped onto the playing field. The sport-blog scene has been almost unanimous in its condemnations: Surviving Grady offers some theories for why it went down: "...[h]e went and gave the videocamera a couple good kicks, because it's a video camera, and it's got to pay for its sins. Plus, it may have been in cahoots with those Gatorade coolers that The K Man had to 'straighten out' a couple days ago." (The ones that attacked him and broke his pinky.) Blogger Dylan laments that Rogers has been one of the best hurlers the Rangers have ever had, but that he'll only be remembered now for being a hothead. But perhaps the most apt commentary on the Rogers flareup is the headline for this piece, which says what we were all thinking.

Posted by Philip Ewing at July 1, 2005 01:18 PM

Category: Sport Spectator