Metaphorically, you could say the wheels have come off this season before the team has even made it out of Mesa.
In truth, the wheels have only come off…Will Ohman’s car.
“Apparently they announced there was a white Yukon on the concourse that needed to be moved before the game,” said Ohman, a left-handed reliever with the Cubs. “I didn’t hear any of that. I knew there was a film crew. As I was walking down, [Mike Remlinger] was walking down with me and I assumed [the crew was filming] him.
“As I got into the bullpen, I opened the door and up in the visitor’s bullpen, I looked up and said, ‘There’s a tire in here,'” Ohman said. “That’s my tire. It kind of registered that perhaps my tires were no longer on the car.”
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“There was one in the dugout, there was one in the shower, there was one in the bullpen and there was one in the coaches’ locker room,” Ohman said.
(cubs.com)
Note to self: Do not get in a prank war with Ryan Dempster.
Or Gilbert Arenas. If you read the SI profile on him, he’s done a bunch of wacky stuff. The best was sneaking into someone’s house, taking his prized throwback jersey, showing up on the team bus wearing and then eating a big greasey meal and wiping his hands all over it. Classic.