Sportswriters Have Got Words

       Dodger Yasiel Puig had done something recently which made son David and me turn to each other with looks of disbelief.   It's the kind of thing that caused the Dodgers to send Puig to the minors, from which he recently returned to the big league team a chastened player and man instead of a spoiled brat millionaire.

       Here is how sportswriter Andy McCullough wrote it up in the L.A. Times: 

       "Ryu hummed an 89-mph fastball at the waist, and Dickerson ripped the ball into right.
       "Yasiel Puig read its flight like a middle-school student trying to decipher James Joyce.  He stepped forward, and the ball went over his head."

       Second-best to celebrating true athletic and human prowess, sportswriters must cherish giving a dumbass, sandlot performance by a major leaguer its due.