That's just vintage Vicente you've got right there

03 November 2009
Jon Weisman has a report over at the LA Times that either Vicente Padilla or his bodyguard shot Padilla in the leg at a shooting range today. I'm pretty sure that speaks for itself, so there you go.

In other news, Myers was joking around with Hamels, and it got blown out of proportion by some idiot in the clubhouse who was trying to make a story out of it. I'm pretty sure we all saw that one coming, considering there was one report from one witness that nobody seemed to agree with.

Shane Victorino is "day-to-day" according to Charlie Manuel, but Shane, being the gamer he is, says that he's fine.

Lastly, here's what Scott Lauber considered to be highlights from Pedro's press conference today:

–On his legacy as one of the greatest pitchers of all-time: “I’m pretty sure that my name will be mentioned. I don’t know in which way. But maybe after I retire, because normally when you die, people tend to actually give you props about the good things. But that’s after you die. So I’m hoping to get it before I die. I don’t want to die and then hear everybody say, ‘Oh, there goes one of the best players ever.’ If you’re going to give me props, just give them to me right now.”

–On whether it would surprise him to know Red Sox fans are pulling for him to beat the Yankees: “No, it wouldn’t. It wouldn’t surprise me at all. I know that they don’t like the Yankees to win, not even in Nintendo games. And knowing that I am part of Boston, I consider myself a Bostonian, as well, too, I’ve been a Montrealer, a Bostonian, and now a New Yorker, and somehow, I might become a Philadelphian now. But I’ve only been there for a short period. It’s something that’s a work in progress. I’m pretty sure that every Boston fan out there can feel proud that I’m going to try to beat the Yankees, and I’m going to give just the same effort I always did for them. They’re special fans, and they will always have my respect.”

–On his ability to improvise by changing speeds and location in the middle of an at-bat: “If I say it, honestly you might not believe it, but that’s all created in the middle of the moment. What you see is a combination of experience and instinct. It’s just instinct, surviving. Everybody that grows up in the Dominican and didn’t have a rich life, it’s a survival. That’s what we call it in the Dominican — survival. And in baseball I am a survivor. I’m someone that wasn’t meant to be, and here I am on one big stage. I really thank God for the blessings of being here, because I was supposed to just survive and that’s it. And here you are, guys; I have a lot of you paying attention to me right now. That’s a great joy.”



That's all I've got until tomorrow. Force Game Seven.

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