Thursday, March 06, 2003


more pro baseball

mets pitcher al leiter has definitely started a trend in pro baseball -- it's called yoga. marlin's pitcher carl pavano is the latest pro yogi.

"pavano started looking for a new off-season training program on the internet and settled on yoga. . . .manager jeff torborg has already noticed a change. 'he's is in outstanding shape,' torborg said."

pavano's career was threatened by injuries; elbow problems were killing his game. but after only 6 weeks of yoga, he's meeting his goals and making his manager happy.

now we just have to get pavano to work on his attitude towards his fellow yoginis: "the women have their legs wrapped around their heads and are walking on their hands,'' he said. i don't think i'll ever get there. it hasn't made me eccentric. you meet a lot of eccentric people in that place.'' it's a pretty funny piece, actually.

all changes come with time, carl. you too can walk on your hands if you want. what do you expect in just 6 weeks?

(on a side note, i personally can do a little "hand-walking" but my legs are still stuck behind my shoulders. the full yoganidrasana is aways off in my personal future. i guess we can all agree already that i probably count as "eccentric!"

but i must hasten to add that i also think paying grown men 10s of millions of dollars to spit tobacco and scratch themselves in public is beyond eccentric. ok, i'm a grump -- the glory days of baseball probably ended with either ty cobb or jackie robinson, i'm not sure which. . .)

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