Mound

The pace of baseball lends itself to goofy moments, such as meetings on the mound.  You'd think there are a million great stories, but Ball Four seems to be the only place I've really found a lot of them.  So I was tickled with this bit from tonight's game:

When Girardi went to the mound to talk to Colon in the seventh inning, he used [Alex] Rodriguez as the translator. Rodriguez suggests using Robinson Cano next time. “I completely messed up the translation,” Rodriguez said. “I got it an out later and it was too late. Robby’s a better translator than me.” Rodriguez said his mistake wasn’t really drastic — it’s not like Colon asked to come out and Rodriguez said to keep him in — but Rodriguez didn’t say what exactly he got wrong.

Bull Durham, of course, still has the best mound scene.