So not that were turning into a sports blog, but take a look at this yahoo sports article on the "get off my mound" t-shirts the A's are selling during the current A's-Yankees series.This goes back to earlier in the season when the then little known Dallas Braden barked at the biggest star in the game not to walk across the pitcher's mound while he was still on it, sparking debates concerning the proper baseball courtesy in such a situation. In this article, David Brown is critical of Braden and the rest of the A's players objecting to the sale of these T-shirts, claiming Braden was asking for this by starting the argument in the first place, and supports the A's marketing department in continuing to sell these shirts.
My take on this is that Braden (and the rest of the A's clubhouse) feels that these T-shirts are just as showy and classless as A-rod walking across the mound in the first place. At the time of the incident Braden had repeatedly said that what bothered him was that he felt A-rod was showing him up by walking across the mound like Braden wasn't even there, just as the MLB players association and Braden himself now feel these t-shirts are unnecessarily showing up A-rod, and prolonging a quasi-feud that should've been quashed weeks ago. While Brown has a point that Braden didn't shy away from talking about the issue on Letterman, nor from his grandmother's words at his perfect game ("stick it, A-rod"), it seems to me that Braden just got a little carried away in the fame surrounding his perfect game, and is now right to attempt to shift the focus back onto baseball, away from what started as a small dispute which was only as publicized as it was because it involved A-rod.
Now to lighten the mood: reallysmalldogs at the A's game!
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