COME WHAT MAYS: Lost in the excitement over tonight's Twins victory that put "Minny" a game behind the White Sox in the AL Central was the news that pitcher Joe Mays will undergo "Tommy John" surgery today and likely not pitch again until 2005.
Also, funny that the "Tommy John" nickname has stuck- yes, John was the first major player to receive the procedure, but can you think of any other athlete who has a surgery named after them? By the same token, no athlete since Lou Gehrig 80 years ago has become the namesake of a disease.
Linda Cohn, on SportsCenter tonight, called Mays' injury "devastating," apparently not ironically. Mays' stats this year: 8-8, 6:30 ERA, and he was pulled from the starting rotation on two different occasions. Has Linda not seen Mays pitch since 2001?