“In baseball you wear a ‘cap’”

Brandon Inge of the Detriot Tigers just reinforced every stereotype regarding the toughness of baseball players by injuring himself with a pillow.

“It was the stupidest, most freakish thing,” Inge said Wednesday, explaining why he had just been placed on the 15-day DL with the pulled side muscle (oblique) he suffered 3 1/2 weeks ago.

“I have a 3-year-old son who sleeps in the bed with my wife and me,” Inge said. “I was trying to push the pillow down behind his head (two nights ago), and when I did … I repopped (the strained muscle).

“You take swings in baseball, and it’s not as bad as pushing a pillow down.”

Upon hearing this story, manager Jim Leyland said, “That’s a first.”

In honor of this pillow mishap, here is the late George Carlin to explain the finer points of baseball and football: