Oh, come on, I couldn't resist this opportunity with the Super Bowl around the corner, could I? The story of Shaq Thompson is pretty well known: Red Sox farmhand who went 0-for-39 with 37 strikeouts in the Gulf Coast League before deciding that football might be a better occupation. You can read more about Mr. Thompson's baseball career here.
By the "WTF did I get myself into?!" look on his face in this pic, I'm guessing he was at about 0-for-30 or 31 at this point.
That said, there are a ton of kids out there who would likely give up their Alexi Ogando autograph collection for a couple weeks in the lowest rung of the minor leagues. As the folks who run the lottery like to say: "You can't win if you don't play."
(An aside: Isn't it amazing all these athletes who were born in the 90s and named for Shaquille O'Neal? I wonder how many parents named their kids for His Shaqness in the hope that having his name might somehow access his awesome powers? I wonder how many parents were/are disappointed?)
