Never let it be said that Carlos Silva doesn’t give back to the fans.
During Sunday’s season finale at Safeco Field, the relief pitchers were tossing workout shirts over the bullpen fence to the fans in the landing area beyond the center field fence. Naturally, it created a stir.
So Silva decided to have a little fun, and he grabbed a jock strap complete with protective cup and waved it to the crowd. Don’t ask whose it was or where it had been (we’re guessing it wasn’t Adrian Beltre’s, since he refuses to wear one).
Bob Bolerjack, The Herald’s editorial page editor and former Mariners beat writer, was there with his family and said the partiers in the crowd were encouraging Silva to fling the jock strap over the fence. So he did.
The crowd parted as though Bobby Ayala had just walked in (now, that was cruel) and the jock strap lay untouched on the concrete for a while. Then a woman gingerly picked it up “using only her thumb and forefinger like she was picking up a dead mouse by the tail,” Bolerjack said.
The jock strap wound up on a table and the Bolerjacks got photographic proof, which you can see at right.
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