Apr 26th 2008 1:20PM by Eamonn Brennan
For anyone with allergies, it’s a tough time to be in the Midwest. Everything’s blooming and dusty, leading to swollen eyes and scratchy throats and an unspeakable excess of phlegm. It’s totally disgusting.

Guess what? Professional baseball players feel the pain, too. Just take Curtis Granderson, whose allergies have officially surpassed his injured hand on the scale of things that annoy him (via MLBTR): For the most part the hand is feeling okay, the body and everything is struggling, my allergies are killing me right now, just trying to fit in and fall back into place, just getting at-bats. I empathize, and I spend most of my working hours in modern, climate-controlled buildings. Curtis spends his working hours in the midst of dust and grass and pollen in major league outfields. Yep … that could get pretty irritating.

Anyway, it’s great to see that baseball players are just like you and me. Except for the wild, excessive wealth. That’s a main difference.