Midgets Are People Too
They can do everything normal-sized people can do, they just do it a little differently. In this week’s DUI-free episode of Little People, Big World, Roloff family cousin and overachieving dwarf Dustin Pedroia wins the AL Rookie of the Year Award, as he should have.
(Shut up Keith Law. You’re a smart guy, you’re easily my favorite metrosexual baseball writer, but Jeremy Guthrie didn’t deserve the RoY.)
Pedroia’s a bit of a favorite around these parts, and the reasons are numerous and obvious. He’s a big victory for saber guys over scouts. He sucks at cribbage. He had the best bat flip of the entire postseason (even better than Manny’s multiple attempts). And of course he talks smack like he’s 6-foot-6, not 5-foot-6.
So to celebrate his AL RoY Award (likely the only award he’ll ever win in his career besides maybe a Gold Glove), we’ll leave you with our favorite anecdote of all about Pedroia, courtesy of his coach at Arizona State.
I’m telling you…this kid every game when we were facing a pretty good pitcher from Wichita State or Duke or something he’d lead off the game and hit a line drive and come running past the pitcher yelling ‘you better get used to it…I’m going to be hitting rockets off you all day.’ Then he hits a home run against [Mike] Pelfrey and he yells to him ’97 mph coming in and 197 mph going out’ as he’s rounding the bases.
Rockets off you all day.
Jeremy Guthrie sucks, his shit is terrible.