Keeping Up With The Gibbons

Maybe it's because of the chimpanzee we keep around the SoSG offices, but we can't get enough of Jay Gibbons. Or at least, I can't get enough of Jay Gibbons. Which made today's LATimes feature article on Gibbons, by multimedia superstar Dylan Hernandez, a nice treat: There was a time when Jay Gibbons was so desperate to find a job that he wrote a letter to every major league team promising to donate his salary to charity if they signed him to a contract. That was in 2008. Asked if he still intended to do so, Gibbons smiled. "I'm going to hold on to my money now," the outfielder said. "I've got kids now. I think three years of not playing is punishment enough." Gibbons' average may have dipped to .444 after his 0-for-4 showing Wednesday (his OPS is down about half, to 1.222), but it's still exciting to see a Dodger reserve outfielder up there who has a shot at actually hitting the ball. It's nice to see that he's mak...