Football is the only sport that forces you to list your players' respective health issues days in advance of the coin toss. Thursday afternoon rolls around, and you can just hear the stream of reports coming out of the practice field of each NFL team. Running back knees, quarterback fingers; you name it, it's on there. But in baseball, you can option. You can recall. Heck, you can just play your guys every day even though they're experiencing some sort of nagging injury. But will you win? Not likely. No team is more known for deceiving injury reports than the New England Patriots. Listing half of a roster as "probable" is not out of the question. Tom Brady, "questionable?" Then he'll come out and toss 400 yards and five touchdowns. Enter Eric Wedge. Today, the catcher for the Cleveland Indians, Victor Martinez, was added to the Tribe's 15-day disabled list with an inflamed elbow that occurred during an at-bat in Wednesday's game. Or did it? Per the team's official site: After the game, manager Eric Wedge revealed that the elbow had flared up on Martinez during the at-bat and that the catcher has been battling the elbow problem all season. Wait. All season? You mean that could be why a clean-up hitter has zero home runs through mid-June? Who would've thought... How about Joe Borowski? The team's closer comes out of spring training topping out in the mid-80s. He can't locate, and when he does, he gets raked all over the yard. He winds u ...
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