The Problematic Bus

Source: www.thegoodphight.com --- Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Phillies pitching staff has found a problematic new tradition. “Stay off the Sensitive Bus” was not a headline I expected to read, well, ever, but much less in conjunction with Baseball, but here we are. A bright, yellow toy school bus sits atop Aaron Nola's locker. It has been dubbed the Sensitive Bus and you don't want to find yourself riding on it. ( @JSalisburyNBCS ) https://t.co/Je9RHOooyh — NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) February 28, 2018 The brainchild of assistant pitching coach Rick Kranitz, the Bus is a plastic toy school bus placed in the locker of a pitcher deemed particularly “sensitive.” As reported by Jim Salisbury, the bus is in custody of Aaron Nola as leader of the staff, and is to be bestowed on a fellow hurler if they get too sensitive. “You have to have tough skin. The boys, they don't ever want the bus in their locker,” said Kranitz. —-- This is problematic for several reasons. First, and most bluntly, it’s a school bus and it’s short. “Did you ride the short bus today” was a common enough jab when I was in fourth grade, but among adults in 2018, it really shouldn’t be. Then there’s the “sensitive” part, which, while not clearly defined, implies that ballplayers need to be hypermasculine unemotional automatons. We don’t know when and how bus ridership is bestowed; whether it’s confined to the clubhouse or if on-field activities are part of the transit system as well. But either way, this is unfor ...

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