LeBron James is Not Good at Baseball

LeBron James, who for all his strength still could not win a championship, has become the most reviled athlete despite, you know, never having a DUI or domestic abuse charge on his record. (Though his The Decision special was still bush league.)

With that said, let’s remind everyone that this professional basketball player is a bad baseball player. From John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer:

“Just after James was drafted, he took batting practice with the Reds in Cleveland. There was some kind of Nike-Ken Griffey Jr. connection. Anyway, James was the single worst hitter I’ve seen among athletes taking BP. He looked like he had never swung a bat. He hardly got any out of the cage. Tom Hume was throwing. He kept slowing it down and down. Finally, he was just trying to hit James’ bat. This was before iPhones that took video or you’d be able to find on You Tube.”

I may be a Lebron James apologist, but I would still probably build a Wallace and Gromit-esque device that would play this video every time my alarm clock went off.

(h/t Hardball Talk)