Yes, my title is a play on Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em, MC Hammer’s 1990 LP that spawned “Can’t Touch This” and was the first rap album to be certified diamond (10 million sales). Of course, the absence of a comma before the artist’s name basically makes it a commandment to make him happy without doing harm to others, but who I am to get pedantic all these years later? My title is also a play on a post I wrote not too long ago about Jason Hammel’s emergence as a very good pitcher for the Cubs.
Please, Hammel, Don’t Hurt Us: Do We Need to Worry About the Right-Hander’s Sliding Performance Down the Stretch?
