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Oil Can ... Oil Can!!It's just sad to know that my child will never know the magic of athletes having awesome nicknames. Especially bad athletes.
Oil Can is making news today. What's the best way to sell a book? Say crazy shit. He has a book coming out in June and he's coming out today detailing his cocaine binges while a member of the Boston Red Sox.
This is not surprising. Burying the lead is that Oil Can said his career was cut short (he left the game at 31) due to racism.
He said that he was a "proud black man" without fear of speaking his mind and that turned off the network of bigotry controlling Major League Baseball.
What Oil Can is missing is that Major League owners and general managers are bigots ... against shitty pitchers in spite of the color of their skin or nationality. And that pitching with blood clots in your arm ain't cool.
Boyd posted a 4.04 career ERA and a 1.29 WHIP. Not to say that he had nothing. In 1985-86, he won 31 games for the Red Sox with an 3.74 ERA. This is the notable time that he admits he was high on coke for two-thirds of his games.
His career quickly fell off, signed with the Montreal Expos and posted a sweet 10-win, 2.93 ERA season in 1990 -- at the age of 30 -- before waning in 1991 and bottoming out in Texas. No matter what Boyd's attitude or personality, teams will take on "proud black men" to win games.
Ineffective, soft-tossing and injury-prone "proud black men" are a different animal.
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