He's Just a Cook

Former Mariner first round pick Ryan Anderson is out of baseball and enrolled in culinary school, we learned from U.S.S. Mariner today.

The M's picked the 6-10 Anderson in 1997, optimistically hoping he'd become the second coming of Randy Johnson. He was known to fans (though hopefully not to his girlfriends) as "The Little Unit." A series of elbow injuries ruined his career, and now he (select inane baseball/cooking comparison below):

1) Ok's hamburgers instead of K'ing hitters
2) warms up bread instead of warming up in the bullpen
3) tosses salads instead of strikes

Here's the original USA Today article.

Jason of U.S.S. Mariner is himself a chef, and a damn good one. He offers this challenge for Anderson:

I say, bring it on, Little Unit. You may be six-foot-ten, but I’ll outcook you every day of the week and twice on Sunday.