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The Phillies pitching staff has found a problematic new tradition.

“Stay off the Sensitive Bus” was not a headline I expected to read, well, ever, but much less in conjunction with baseball, but here we are.

A bright, yellow toy school bus sits atop Aaron Nola's locker. It has been dubbed the Sensitive Bus and you don't want to find yourself riding on it.

(@JSalisburyNBCS) https://t.co/Je9RHOooyh— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) February 28, 2018

The brainchild of assistant pitching coach Rick Kranitz, the Bus is a plastic toy school bus placed in the locker of a pitcher deemed particularly “sensitive.