Jeff Karstens, Comically Ugly.

Not to turn this blog into a log of google image search results of the dogs of our pastime, but hey, I am a bitter, critical man, and nothing amuses me so much as the site of such an obviously cursed fellow. I think they pulled him out of his mother with a hook, and left him on the hospital floor to expire curled up and gasping for breath. But Jeff Karstens pulled himself up from that floor, and into our hearts, with a quality start and a victory against the Angels today. Freakish in the vaudvillian rather than basketball draftee sense, he will get another start or two in an uncertain rotation, and fans who stick around after the game may get to see him jump through a flaming hoop or balance a beach ball on his nose.