You tell me: is it more extraordinary that someone I think is probably Jewish — a combination of my own in-born Jewdar and the fact that Wikipedia tells me so* — grew to the size of 6-8, 250, or that the same person threw five excellent innings against a first-place team with a broken bone in his leg? Jason Hirsh: you are today’s credit to the chosen people. Your gutsiness certainly far surpasses mine, although to be fair to myself I did go outside a couple of times on what’s a very humid day here in New York. The AP, via Sports Illustrated, reports (on Hirsh, not my trip to the supermarket):
Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Hirsh broke his right leg — and kept on pitching against the Milwaukee Brewers.
X-rays revealed the fracture Wednesday, a day after Milwaukee’s J.J. Hardy lined a ball off Hirsh’s leg during the first inning of Colorado’s 11-4 win. Hirsh allowed three runs — two earned — and three hits in six innings, throwing 87 pitches and improving his record to 5-7.
*By the way, the Wikipedia vouch thing is, if anything, in the debit column on Hirsh’s Jewish Question. I just want to believe.
He’s a tribesman, probably the biggest one in existence. He and Brad Ausmus were the first all-Jewish battery since Koufax and Norm Sherry in the 60’s.
I’m glad someone else is paying attention to this. Although I think that, until further notice, Danny Schayes still reigns supreme as the largest Jew in captivity.
Ah, yes, Danny Schayes. How soon we forget. I’m most impressed that Hirsh is doing it in the confines of an organization guided by Christianity.