Whoa.
Jason Grilli is leaving the team that has been a big part of his family since his father pitched for Detroit in the late 1970s.
The Tigers traded Grilli on Wednesday to the Rockies in exchange for Minor League prospect Zach Simons, a Class A right-handed reliever.
Wait a second. You tell a first-person story about a baseball player you wish wouldn’t screw the game up any more, and then he’s gone from the team?
Because I posed this question to Kenny Rogers when he, Gary Sheffield, Zach Miner and I were doing lines of cane sugar off a stripper’s rear end. He just smirked and said “Get some more Pixy Stix.” Which is odd, because he had just stolen a handful of those from some Sunday school children not three hours before.
I thought of that post immediately when I saw the news. Also I audibly gasped. Traded! Traded!
Stop touching things! Stop it!
You’re touching something right now, aren’t you? Stop!