Big Bubble! Toronto Blue Jays' Ricky Romero Blows a Big One on Saturday

In case you weren't already clear on this, major leaguers aren't like the rest of us.

Professional baseball players can perform feats of strength and athleticism far beyond those of us who peaked in high school (or in my case, far earlier than that) and mere weekend warriors. And they make it look easy.

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Ricky Romero had one of his worst outings of the season Sunday against the Minnesota Twins. Lasting just five-and-a-third innings, Romero allowed four runs, a season-high nine hits and five walks in a 4-3 loss. 

But maybe Romero didn't have his good stuff because he gave his all in the clubhouse on Saturday. Or maybe it occurred while the Blue Jays were waiting out a rain delay on Friday. 

Whenever it happened, Romero put 110 percent into blowing a massive bubble gum bubble and posted a photo to his Twitter account to share it with the people, record it for posterity and surely let it live in immortality on blogs such as this one.

Check this baby out.

That is one big bubble. Took four pieces of Dubble Bubble to get that done, according to Romero. 

Could you fit two heads inside that thing? At the very least, it would make for a decent-sized space helmet, like the fishbowls that the cast of Prometheus is sporting. 

I dare say that one advantage major leaguers have, in addition to their great physical gifts, is access to better, fresher Dubble Bubble.

One of the wake-up moments of my life was hanging out near the Detroit Tigers dugout in 1998 during pregame workouts. After Todd Jones ran into the dugout, he quickly popped back out, threw his arms in the air and tossed dozens of pieces of Dubble Bubble to the fans gathered nearby. I nabbed a couple and later had my mind blown when I put those pieces of gum into my mouth.

These weren't the dry, chalky, rock-hard rectangles of gum that could cut the inside of your mouth and cause you to wear out your jaw trying to chew. The gum Jones tossed to us was soft, easy to chew through. And it tasted like bubble gum; not chalky powder. 

Major leaguers got the good bubble gum. The leftovers were what the regular people picked up at the local drugstore. It was a formative experience. Those guys had it better than us. 

Romero reminded us of this with his gigantic orb of bubble gum. No way anyone could blow a bubble like that with store-bought crap. Not that I'm trying to take anything away from him. He'll always have that bubble, captured via photograph.

(via Larry Brown Sports)

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