performance enhancing shoes.
Brian Wilson has courted trouble in the past. He's caught flak for irresponsible Twitter use, angered opponents with his histrionics on the mound and alienated his bandmates with some kooky behavior at the height of their popularity.
Okay, so that last one is a completely different Brian Wilson but the other two have to do with the Giants closer who has now ticked off Major League Baseball for wearing orange shoes on the mound during Tuesday night's game with the Marlins.
Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle tweeted the news on Wednesday afternoon: "League fines Wilson a grand for the orange shoes. He's using a Sharpie rt now to color them half black."
The shoes became an issue on Tuesday night when Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez complained to the umpires about the bright orange color being a distraction for his charges. That claim lost some validity when Dan Uggla homered off of Wilson but here's what Rodriguez had to say anyway.
"A little bit too bright, too flashy," said Rodriguez "We asked if there was any rule about that. He said the rule is more intended for the sleeves and there's no real for the shoes. There's rules for jewelry and all kinds of things. Shoes like that are a little bit too much. I think there should be a rule. They should be consistent. There's a rule for the uniform and there should be a rule for the shoes."
Wouldn't it be nice if we all just learned to focus on the ball in the pitcher's hand and not on the color of the pitcher's shoes? Given how successful Wilson has been closing games regardless of his footwear color, it's pretty clear that his good vibrations come from his arm and not his feet.
Wilson agrees with that sentiment.
"Too flashy. I didn't know that's in the rulebook," Wilson said Wednesday. "Oh it's not in the rulebook. The fact that he thinks these shoes throw 97 to 100 with cut might be a little far fetched. I guess we should have these checked as performance-enhancing shoes."
Actually, Rodriguez makes a decent point about having the rules for uniforms and accessories extend to shoes as well. As you can see in the above photo, the shoes are distracting. So are the echoes that reverberate around Marlins Stadium, however, and no one is fining the Marlins. Make Wilson lose the shoes if you must but let him keep his cash.
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/07/28/giants-closer-brian-wilson-fined-for-wearing-orange-shoes/
p.s. let's go buster! make it 22!
Chester
Petr Cech wears orange in goal for Chelsea to distract people, and they shoot right at him. Sports people need to stop misusing orange.
Jul 30, 2010
iSeeDumbPeople
Jul 30, 2010