Tighty wounded game

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Greg Couch can’t believe the reason home runs are up this season is because of the lame excuse we used almost a decade ago during the home run explosion: tightly-wound baseballs made in Costa Rica.

He quotes insufferable White Sox blowhard Hawk Harrelson: “They have different shifts down there, and they take out the baseballs at different times. When the workers come on, the first hour or two of their shifts, their fingers and their hands are strong. And then the longer, obviously, they work, they get [more tired], so those balls are not wound quite as tight. So you take the balls that are wound in that first hour or so…”

Oh.

“How gullible can we be?” asks Couch. “We’re not really going to fall for this again? Costa Rican fingers? Here’s the word we’re looking for: Steroids.”