You know Chris Sale. He’s a very good pitcher. He also gets hurt often, sometimes in very strange ways. In 2024, he avoided injury until very late in the season and won the NL Cy Young Award. In 2025, he broke his ribs diving for a ball with a big lead in the ninth inning and failed to win the NL Cy Young Award.
On the ‘more wounded’ front the swords are sharp. Not me think that Sale has previously had a stint on the injured list involving a sharp object, but he’s also progressing by years in terms of his career, so he’s running out of time to add that to his ledger. Terry Pratchett had the idea:
Then again, this isn’t like a cursed sword. Presumably he received the sword as something positive. Maybe, thanks to its presence, it can ward off anything that might injure Sale while, say, biking to Chipotle. You don’t know that can’t do that simply because Sale has never had this sword before, and did getting hurt doing things like riding a bike to Chipotle.
On a more serious note, this is pretty cool. More gear companies should give athletes cool swag. Or maybe just swords. I am pretty bummed that literally all coverage of this sword is a short clip or a do nothing article. I want details. What kind of sword? It is described as “bespoke” – how bespoke? I’m literally starving for baseball-player-receives-sword information here, folks.
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