Meantime, there's news about the Sandwich Caper Matt Cain got into..
http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2014/05/05/a-list-of-sf-giants-not-going-to-fresno-plus-tonights-lineup/
UPDATE, 2:50 p.m.: One of my Twitter followers, Matt Saunders, sent along the photo at right and said, “Maybe the Giants should invest in a few of these.” I showed it to Matt Cain and he howled in laughter, saying, “That’s beautiful.”
Cain went on the disabled list today, retroactive to April 25, because he cut his right index finger in the kitchen before his scheduled start a week ago. He was all set to take his turn tonight until he tried throwing yesterday for the first time without a protective device on the finger. As he threw, the cut felt like it wanted to pop open, so the team decided discretion was the better part of valor here and decided to give him another five days.
Cain fully expects to start in Los Angeles on Saturday, a day after he is eligible to pitch again.
As you can imagine, Cain is getting a lot of grief for the knife accident, especially since we have been writing that he cut himself “trying” to make a sandwich, as if he could not complete that simple act.
Cain wants it known that he had finished the ham-and-cheese sandwich and grabbed the knife so he could cut it.
“I went to cut it, to make it fancy in triangles,” he said. When he dropped the knife he tried to catch it, and now he is on the DL for the second time in his career. The first time, last August, he was struck by a line drive.
“One of them was a freak accident and one of them was my own stupidity,” he said.
Cain does see one bright side to all this. As we report on the accident, people keep comparing him to Jeremy Affeldt, which means that Affeldt’s knife accident stays in the news.
Me, I sympathize. I was totally surprised the day I sliced my left index finger along with the pork roast. Luckily, husband was home and off we went to emergency. I'd cut the tendon..
Years went by and the finger went from being very odd and quite bowed to just as workable and shaped as the rest. Good job. I almost remember the doc's name, but not quite.
