Dropped Third Strike

Shawn Chacon got demoted to the bullpen. Shawn Chacon got mad. Shawn Chacon got waived. We’re thinking of starting a new section here at DTS dedicated to baseball player’s making asses out of themselves. Adam Dunn, Todd Jones, and now Chacon have each, in turn, made baseball players everywhere look bad. On the 1-Roger Clemens scale (As you’ll recall, the key to the scale is as follows 1-3 = all around good guy. An example of a 1 would be David Wright or Curtis Granderson type, hard worker, talented player, thoughtful, generous with his time, good leader, ideal ball player. A 2 would be a Mariano Rivera or a Sean Casey, good guys, also team leaders, but in a quieter way. A 3 would be a Derek Jeter, solid but aloof. 4-6 ranges from deluded to asinine. A-Rod is a 4, he’s well-intentioned but generally makes a fool of himself without meaning to. Dunn and Jones come in around a 5 — players who run their mouths and act like children. A 6 is starting to become more selfish, but not quite malevolent. Though many would rank him as the devil of baseball, we feel Barry Bonds comes in as a 6. A player who is all about himself, but doesn’t really go out of his way to harm others. Curt Schilling is also around a 6. 7-9 — these are your real jerks, the guys who kick and scream and bite and pout. Think Milton Bradley, Elijah Dukes type. A 10 of course is reserved for those few players who juice, throw law suits around, seduce 15 year olds, cheat on their wives, etc etc etc.) As we were saying, on the 1-Clemens scale, Chacon clocks in at a solid 8.5. Yes this is harsh, and yes Ed Wade was probably yellin’ and cussin’ at him, but Wade is a 52 year old executive, and Chacon is a 30 year old professional athlete, so it’s not exactly a fair fight. Attacking a man 20+ years your senior is downright unacceptable. Do you see Barack Obama throwing down with John McCain? (Actually that would probably go quite poorly for Obama). All we can hope for at this point is that the Yankees don’t decide to give him another look. But with their track record, expect to see Chacon in Scranton ASAP.