Bay Bridge Baseball: The New New New New Barry Zito

Who wrote that headline? Benjy Benjamin? But hey…it’s baseball content!

“The first year I wanted to come out and wow everyone,” he said. “Then last year I really wanted to make sure,’Don’t worry guys, it’s all good.’ Now I’m past all that and back to having fun and pitching because I love pitching. I’m done trying to please everyone and do all that. Everyone ends up getting their expectations met when I focus on what I love to do, which is pitching.”

Zito also said that he’s going to try to do more extra-curricular activities during the season, because he figures it will help him get away from thinking about pitching 24/7.

“I’m a lot different than a lot of people — when baseball is my singular focus, it suffers,” he said. “When I have a lot of stuff going on it makes baseball better. I’ve been focusing on music, picked up the drums. I was taking driving lessons with my car (something like this).  It’s one thing to have a fast car and another thing to take it seriously and say ‘Yeah, I can (bleeping) drive this thing…

“When you have your only fun at the field, the rest of your life becomes a little blurry. We’re not just baseball guys who turn into silhouettes off the field.”