ESPN the Magazine: 100 MPH OR BUST: Joel Zumaya is throwing gas again

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Do you believe Joel Zumaya? A lot of people don’t. They don’t buy the story about his wrecking his throwing shoulder by moving boxes at his parents’ house. The Tigers reliever knows all about the doubts, because he spent an afternoon last inter trolling the Internet with his father, Joel Sr., reading the various conspiracy theories. Maybe it was the rumor that Joel Jr., known to family as J.J., fell off a motorcycle. Maybe it was the suggestion that he was injured while having sex on a couch. Maybe it was the theory that an obese woman sat on him. Maybe it was all three crazy notions that made Joel Sr. snap, pulling the laptop cord out of the wall, grabbing the only computer he owned, stomping out to the patio of his Chula Vista, Calif., home and smashing the offending machine onto the concrete. He kicked it over and over, making sure it was dead. “A hundred pieces,” he says.

Joel Jr. refuses to discuss the injury, but his dad, who saw it happen, has plenty to say. “There’s nothing to hide,” says the elder Zumaya. “All this bulls--- needs to stop.”