February 26, 2007
American Gyro
Deadspin links to a post from C.J. Wilson, who is learning to throw the Gyroball. Wilson is pretty far down on the Rangers depth chart right now, but if he can master this pitch and it works, it would be pretty easy for him to break into the Texas rotation.
I like the way Deadspin finishes their post:
Wilson says that he's developing his gyro ball with the help of a Japanese scientist, which we think is great. Because we need all the Japanese scientists we can get to counteract the effects of the rampaging, radiation-mutated Barry Bonds.
Sadly, Raymond Burr is not around to help anymore.
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re: the gyroball
first, he has to stop at Dengeo's in Skokie, IL, in Chicago, where the world's finest Gyro's and Souvlaki's are made by my wife's cousins' family.
You eat the gyro there, and then, go back to the kitchen, collect a good deal of the gyro and souvlaki juice, and collect it in a bottle.
Then, smuggle it into the game, and during relevant parts of the game, you smear the gyro juice onto the ball.
The gyro juice will make the ball dip two feet or more, and the ballplayer will be fortified by the great greek meal.
--arthur j kyriazis, philly
"nothing to excess"--saying of the ancient seven sages of greece