"I have snatched my share of joys from the grudging hand of fate as I have jogged along, but never has life held for me anything quite so entrancing as baseball."
This wonderful quotation, from famed lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow, is in H.A. Dorfman's The Mental ABC's of Pitching. More about that book later.
The Phillies, meanwhile, cannot get out of Clearwater soon enough. On Monday, Victorino and Ibanez had a full-tilt collision in the outfield, which luckily resulted only in a cut above the eye for Victorino. Yesterday, Roy Oswalt was hit in the back of the neck by a Manny Ramirez line drive. Happily, Ramirez did not square the ball up and Oswalt was able to walk off. He later commented that his friend Mike Coolbaugh had also been hit (and killed) by a line drive to the neck.
Add these two injuries to Utley's knee, Contreras' scratched cornea, Lidge's bicep, and Polanco's elbow. Enough dues paid already.
