So Zack Greinke's decided to take his ball and go home. As he would say, "Cool". My only reaction to this news is that this is so typical of the Royals. They found a flaky high school phenom pitcher and forced him to the majors at age 20 because they desperately needed good publicity and didn't have anyone better anyway. Despite the fact that he was an undeniably immature head case, they let him suffer through some hideous outings in the middle of a lost season, rather than putting him back in Omaha where he could regain his confidence and, incidentally, stop his major league service time clock. They habitually ripped away his security blanket by changing pitching coaches (Bob McClure will be his fourth in less than two full years of major league service), and refused to recognize the fact that he's a terrible pitcher (7-21, 6.04 ERA, 1.55 WHIP) when throwing to the team's principle catcher, John Buck, and a pretty good pitcher (6-7, 3.40 ERA, 1.14 WHIP) when he throws to anyone else.
You know what? If I was in Greinke's position, I might go home to live in my parents' basement and play some golf, too.
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