No love for John Bale.

You know, it's nice when your team has a sucky player, particularly a sucky pitcher that the team insists on plugging into the starting rotation, who goes out and hurts himself in some stupid way, thus keeping him off the field indefinitely.  Such is the situation with Royals pitcher John Bale, the only one of KC's 2008 starters who scares me enough that I really never want to see him on the mound.  Brian Bannister has been great, Zack Greinke has been amazing, Gil Meche is starting to come around, Luke Hochevar looks quite good his last two times out, and even Brett Tomko has had a few nice outings.  But John Bale sucks.  So it was nice when he started experiencing "shoulder fatigue," but gosh, it was extra nice of John, right as he's getting to the point where he might be coming back, to go and punch a door and break his pitching hand.  Thanks for taking one for the team, John!  Because as much of a rollercoaster ride as the Tomko express may be, it's still much better than the John Bale stink train.

Now, here's hoping that when Bale is finally ready to pitch again, he does it (a) in AAA, or (b) for another team.