From the Locker Room: "It s a lefty, we'll take it. I guess they haven't did their homework."
It wasn't exactly bulletin-board material, but Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson had a humorous take on the Oakland A's decision to start young lefthander Jesús Luzardo in Game 1 tomorrow afternoon.
"It don’t matter, they still have to come to us," he smiled. "It's a lefty, we'll take it. I guess they haven't did their homework."
As for not having seen Oakland all season long, Anderson was similarly nonplussed.
"It don’t matter," he said. "They put their pants on just like we do. We’re familiar with these guys, we’ve played them [in the past]. It’s nothing different. We want to approach them like any other team."
Again, typical of the soft-spoken motormouth, Anderson shrugged off his cold end to the regular season.
"So what, who cares?" he said. "Tomorrow is a new day. Every day is a new day. I would rather be cold [at season's end] and hot now, when it really matters. It doesn’t take away from the season I had."
Be sure to watch all 10 minutes of his footage above, because it's fast-paced, and fun. And when all was said and done, Tim said it himself:
"That’s enough."
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Tim Anderson footage courtesy of the Chicago White Sox.
Actor (final credit: murdered by Albert Einstein in "Carnage Hall"), musician (Ethnocentric Republicans), and Nerf hoops champion, Wiffleball aficionado and onetime bilingual kindergarten teacher, Brett Ballantini also writes about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey, for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and took over the White Sox beat after that. He currently is the editor-in-chief of South Side Hit Pen and beat writer for Inside the Rays. He also wrote a book about Ozzie Guillén but is running out of space, so follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and he'll probably tell you even more about himself than you ever wanted to know.