Outman, that's who! Inky and I met up with her family in Reading Pennsylvania last night to take in some minor league baseball and saw a doozie. The Philles sent 12 men to the plate in the first and scored 9 runs. But, this is the minors and no lead is safe and the Erie Sea Wolves started to chip away, scoring a crap load of their own runs. So, when all seemed lost and when the fate of the fireworks display hung in the balance the Phillies called on that Hero of a Hurler, the Caped Curveballer, the Masked Major Leaguer in waiting... Outman! Josh Outman that is.
I was sorry to see that all Philles manager P.J. Forbes did to summon him to the mound was tap his left forearm. I was hoping for a big bat signal like K that would shine on the outfield advertising wall. To make matters worse, when he did come to the mound he was just wearing the standard baseball uniform. No cape? No tights? No utility belt with objects to doctor the ball?
What a rip off! With a name like Outman you have got to play that up. Hell, this kid should be a closer, and use the batman theme music as he slides to the mound on a zipp line. That would kick ass, so much so that I wouldn't even care if he actually got outs. Sometimes your name fits your personality and sometimes it doesn't. Lets hope that the latter is true with another of the Phillies pitchers: Antonio Bastardo.
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It would be better if his battery mate was named Striker or something that way they could be the dymnamic duo of baseball!!
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