I’m off to New Haven to take in to see Oil Can Boyd pitch in an independent league game tonight with my good friend Jim Storer. With any luck, I’ll have video later.
I remember sitting in centerfield at Fenway in the mid-80’s cheering for Boyd. We’d use our best rusted Tin Man voice and go, “Oil can, OIL CAN!”
Somebody ought to, just for fun, put together an All-Star team of the Over-40-and-Still-Playing players. We could have…
Oil Can
Rickey Henderson
Roger Clemens
?Barry Bonds
?Rafael Palmeiro
Julio Franco
?Steve Finley
Jeff Fassero
You get the idea. The question marks are for players not doing particularly well right now (Finley), players who are hurt (Bonds), and players who are…scandalized (Bonds and Palmeiro). But I’d still throw ’em on this team.
id put sammy sosa in there, he should have been first