The Baseball Chick

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?!??!