Off The Mark

From Bruce Miles' story. As usual, Bruce's article was more illuminating:

"Question: Can you put your finger on anything as far as the inconsistency?
Prior: No. I have some ideas, but I'll keep those private. I'm just not finding the plate, just not being aggressive."

Well, the plate's still in the same spot, Mark. It hasn't moved.

"Question: Health-wise, you're OK, you think?
Prior: Yeah, I mean, it's obviously been a long year. Things haven't beenas great as I would have liked them to be. I've just got to try to keepfiguring things out and just try to get back to the way I know I can throw.Let's try to keep evaluating and move forward."

Actually, things haven't been great at all. Things have flat out sucked.

"Question: Do you think of shutting down for the rest of the year?
Prior: What do you think? You know the answer's no."

Oh we do, do we? Two weeks from now, this is probably the headline - Prior Shut Down For Rest Of Year, Career In Doubt.

I liked this story comment:

"The name of center fielder Felix Pie came up. Pie is playing at Class AAAIowa. Baker seems to have it in his head that the media have been clamoring for Pie."

Maybe Baker is tortured by the voices in his head. We can only hope something is torturing him.