Sometimes when Michael Jack Schmidt speaks, you just have to shake your head and wonder why three letters were not added to the end of his middle name.
This is not a new phenomenon that surfaced for the first time Tuesday morning, when the Hall of Fame third baseman made an appearance on Angelo Cataldi's WIP morning show. It happened often when he played and even more often when he stopped.
It usually doesn't create too much of a stir because he is simply ill-informed or unprepared about a subject that carries little weight. A couple of weeks ago, for example, he asked John Kruk on the air what it was like playing with Jayson Werth.