I’ll stop writing stuff like that when dudes stop writing stuff like this:
Halladay’s departure leaves Romero, who went 13-9 as a rookie, as
the most experienced healthy starting pitcher on the roster, and the
25-year-old is tackling the new challenge the way Halladay would.By training like a maniac.
In
addition to his throwing sessions, Romero worked out at Athletes’
Performance in suburban Carson, Calif., putting in two-hour sessions
four days a week, and fine-tuning for the grind that begins with spring
training in two weeks.“I feel I’m ready to tackle a 200-plus inning season,” said Romero, who logged 178 innings last year.
Maybe I don’t understand the journalism biz, but if I was an editor and my beat guy brought me a “Professional Athlete trains hard before the season” story I’d be tempted to spike that in the name of all dog-bites-man stories that have ever been spiked.
“Bring me a story about some outfielder who developed a Cheetos addiction over the winter,” I’d yell as I chomped on my cigar, J. Jonah Jameson-style, “and if he doesn’t want to be famous, I’ll make him infamous!”
