Why athletes avoid the media

[Write-brained]

Granted, the locker room with media and players milling about is not the best place to clean your ears, but blaming Blackburn would be blaming the victim. That makes no sense at all.

Whoever did it needs to fess up and apologize. Otherwise, I'd like to see him/her called out by name.

Blue font?

I remember Rafael Santana missed like a month for puncturing his eardrum with a Q-tip. That comes from my useless information file.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I thought is was about Mentkiewicz getting nailed by a YES ENG guy.

Actually, he was a freelancer. And I say was because he no longer works for YES. There's a shocker. Steinbrenner probably called from Tampa and ordered his termination.

A freelancer from CLEVELAND. Word is Sports Time Ohio is going to hire him and tell him to film around A-Rod all day tomorrow.

 

[Bob Cook]

/channeling DocTalk

You're NEVER supposed to use a Q-tip to clean wax out of your ears. It takes out wax, sure, but the pressure from the cotton swab also causes more wax to get impacted. Use ear drops instead.