Buster brings some serious truth to the Michael Pineda injury:
The explosion of social media has fueled the desire to identify incompetence, to illuminate failure, to expose the cheaters. Within seconds that news broke that Michael Pineda will miss the rest of the year with a labrum tear, Twitter was flooded with theories -- that the New York Yankees blew it, that the Seattle Mariners knew that Pineda was hurt, that there were idiots and schemers ... The Mariners didn’t cheat, the Yankees weren’t idiots. It just didn’t work out.
When bad things happen we often look for someone to blame. It makes it much easier to deal with bad news if we believe that it is the result of malfeasance. The scariest part of this world, however, is that the vast majority of bad things that happen ... just happen. Often for no reason at all other than bad random chance.
Baseball player injuries obviously don’t compare to the real bad things, of course, but in their frustrating habit of just ... happening, they are pretty similar.
