Sunday, April 12, 2009

Why Carlos Gomez Smells His Bat

This question has been rattling around in my brain for awhile, and using my awesome powers of deduction (aka Google), I've finally discovered the reason, via Metsblog.

Here you go:  SNY’s Kevin Burkhardt asked gomez this very question over the weekend…according to gomez, when was a kid he noticed that all of the best hitters had some kind of ritual as they approached the plate or between pitches…to emulate them, he wanted to come up with a ritual of his own that no one before or after him would do…so, as he approaches the plate, he rotates his bat in front of his face while smelling it…when burkhardt asked the obvious question of what he was smelling for, gomez said, “what else…hits.”…

6 comments:

Muumuuman said...

I thought he was ensuring that his bat wasn't used a Gitmo.

Andrew Wice said...

Gross, MMMan.

Big BM, didn't you use a miniature bat as a defense in your public nudity/masturbation trial?

Big Blue Monkey 2: The Quickening said...

I can't believe that you remember that story, Andrew. For the record, I was not the defendant. I was a 17 year old Government AP student on a field trip to a local courthouse.

My favorite part of that story was the rebuttal witness' angry statement--"I SAW FLESH."

Jess said...

I can't help but picture some prim, old, church lady saying that.

Muumuuman said...

Miniature bat gives BBM too much credit. Maybe a novelty key chain bat would have swayed the jury.

Andrew Wice said...

Bazing!