Don’t Pickerling at That!

Published: July 16, 2008, 12:38 am

Tags: royals

Batting seventh and playing first base for The Abomination of a Baseball Team… Calvin “Picked Last” Pickering! First, the good news: Calvin Pickering is our first player in about a week who hasn’t been on The Mitchell Report. Did I just end that sentence with a period? I meant to end it with an exclamation mark!!! Way to go, Cal! Unfortunately, a little juice may have helped you out from time to time, as you were a very bad Major League baseball player. I mean, really bad. I’m sure you’re a very nice man, and, as much as I hate talking badly about “the most famous former baseball player from the Virgin Islands” (take that, Midre Cummings!), I must do it. A little backstory? Sure. Why not? Calvin “Surely Picked Off” Pickering was drafted in the 35th round by Baltimore in 1995. For the next 10 or so years, he spent most of his time in the minors, putting up pretty good numbers. He usually hit for a good

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