Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre was placed on the 15-day DL with an injured testicle after a ground ball took a bad hop last Wednesday night. There was some tearing and internal bleeding as Beltre doesn’t wear a cup.  Beltre came off the DL at the beginning of August following shoulder surgery.

I just can’t believe he would play third base without a cup!  The ball (meaning baseball) gets scalded to third.  While I’m not a dude, I think I did what a lot of other dudes did when hearing this news, by answering with a resounding, “WHAT?!?!?!”  I mean, geez, hypothetically speaking of course, if I didn’t need a cup because of all the steroids I had done in the past, I think I would still pretend I needed one just for appearance’s sake.  I would probably say, “Yeah, I totally need one because my balls are soooo huge,” or something to that effect.

Of course, the argument again is one of a comfortability issue.  Apparently Mark Ellis and Placido Polanco have admitted they don’t wear a protective cup either.  But come on, shouldn’t all you sissy baseball players be used to it by now?!?!?  I mean, bras are definitely irritating sometimes, but you don’t see me running around the neighborhood just flopping around now, do you??? DO YOU?!??!

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Lance Berkman is on the 15-day DL with a strained left calf.  According to Ed Wade, the Astros GM, “We are in agreement that keeping Lance active will only put him in a position of wanting to help the club and re-aggravating the injury.  I also spoke to Lance, and he understands. It’s not easy to disable one of your key guys, but we want him strong for the stretch drive, so it’s the right move.”

It was clear something was wrong on Tuesday night when he stretched a hit of his into a double, grimaced half way between first and second, and then sort of limped into second.  But that’s good, because apparently someone forgot to tell the Houston Assholes they were supposed to stink this year.  Maybe now they will play to everyone’s lower than low expectations. 

Hey Astros, that’s enough already!

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