Promise Broken, Again

Dan Shaughnessy, October 25, 2015:

I promise never to rip Sandoval for being out of shape or going on the disabled list.

Dan Shaughnessy, earlier this afternoon:

FORT MYERS, Fla. — It was good to see Pablo Sandoval playing baseball again Thursday afternoon. The slimmed-down Kung Fu Panda started at third base against the Northeastern Huskies,
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The last time we saw the Panda in action was last April, when his belt succumbed to his swollen gut and literally exploded in mid-swing at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
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The Panda has been a punch line around here for the better part of two seasons.
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No. Nothing like that. We watched the Panda’s BMI rise while his OPS fell.
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In the wake of a second straight last-place finish by the Red Sox in 2015, Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez became Boston baseball’s Pinata Twins — blamed for everything that was wrong with the team. (blamed by...whom? - ed.)
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He showed up looking out of shape, and no one believed the Sox when they insisted he had only 17 percent body fat (“Did they say 70 percent?” we wondered).
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We know he’s on a low-carb regimen and he dropped a few lbs. by riding his mountain bike to the park and doing some boxing in the offseason. He says he has something to prove. He says his shoulder is healed. He says he’s OK again from the right side. (surely not trying to create doubt here, right? - ed.)
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Sandoval played three grueling innings against Northeastern.

Much like Shank's daily grueling one mile run!