If Bobby Crosby is looking a little confused, it's understandable. Especially after a certain North Bay newspaper reported Saturday that he was injured giving birth:
But Crosby, who is recovering from a fractured afterbirth, does not seem at all concerned about the cautious pace.
"It's not a big deal if I do it or not," Crosby said of on-field batting practice. "I'm still not ready to go 100 percent because (the injury) is in the back of my head."
Yeah, an injury like that would stick in the back of my head too.
Luckily, no one at the paper actually reads the paper. So it wasn't noticed until an A's media relations person called Tuesday asking what must have been an awkward question.
Turns out, Mr. Crosby does not in fact have fallopian tubes, and it was just the result of our -- I mean, a certain North Bay newspaper's -- awful spell-check system. He really had a "fractured vertebra," which the reporter had misspelled as "veterbra," which of course the system replaced with "afterbirth." I always get those two words mixed up.
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