Rampant MLB Glove Abuse

[opticsp]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... EGgpFRYPIU

Check out this article to read about all the abuse put on the professional gloves of your favorite players. Basically they do everything we tell them not to. I especially like the high tech Jimmy Rollins method.

[BretMan]

I guess that's the difference between getting all your top-of-the-line gloves free every year and having to spend your hard-earned bucks to buy your own!

Us working stiffs want our gloves to last a few seasons before we have to plunk down cash for a new one. You can break-in a new glove or, with some real punishment, just flat-out break it. But if a glove rep is going to give you all the gloves you need (or you're making a couple million a year and could buy any glove you want)...who cares!

[wjr953]

Wow,
You would never see me doing anything like that to a baseball glove, ever! I guess if you don't have to write the check to pay for it, you don't have to even care what you do to it. That's just wrong. Some of the gloves that these jerks get for free, I would kill to have in my collection. Where's the justice? lol

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[opticsp]

I'm with you wjr. Show some g-love. I think if you treat gloves like that, no matter where they come from or if you paid for them or not, you come back in the next life as an flea or cockroach.

[wjr953]

Yeah, or as the smallest tree in the local dog park!

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