Stay classy, Joel Sherman

I guess Joel Sherman of the New York Post decided that today was the day that he was really gonna put a middle reliever in his place. He spends a column calling Joba Chamberlain immature, saying that “the Yankees, as an organization, are tired of all the theatrics and untrustworthiness that comes with Chamberlain.”

Which, fine. It’s not exactly a newsflash that either Sherman himself and/or his sources on the Yankees don’t approve players who don’t Know Their Place. If it wasn’t Joba it would have been someone else getting the “not a professional; not a True Yankee” treatment. This, however, is a bit beyond the pale:

I think Chamberlain was a physical red flag no matter how he was deployed, that he never was going to have the consistency in personality or performance to thrive at any one specific role and that his immature nature always was going to be tempted by the trampolines of life.

Really? “the trampolines of life?” We can talk about whether playing on trampolines is good judgment for anyone, but you’re really going to slam the guy’s very character by reference to a horrific injury he suffered while playing with his kid? Nice.