I couldn’t find this video anywhere on the internet yesterday, so I decided to put my technological savviness to use and upload the video this morning. I really need to update my gadgets, the iPhone video recorder quality is so bad, as illustrated in the video below.
So about Rick Ankiel. You either love him or hate him right? But he’s not good enough to actually hate , is he? If you’re like me, you semi-despise him because his rise through the minors was more or less credited to his chemically enhanced body. Look, I get it, everyone is using some sort of chemical these days, I just prefer to be oblivious to that fact.
Regardless, I guess it’s not a bad story. Ankiel, the highly regarded St. Louis prospect had a very solid rookie campaign, develops the yips in the playoffs against, who else, his current team the Atlanta Braves, throws five wild pitches in the 3rd inning and the beginning of the end of his pitching career began.
After giving up on pitching and...
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