Bill Conlin | Phils may have misread Garcia's warranty  Posted:
June 11, 2007  LARRY BOWA was the Don Rickles of bench jockeys,
a relentless needler.  One of his best riffs was to climb all
over an opposing infielder who had launched a feeble throw. "If
it hurts, don't throw it," Bowa would holler in that shrill
contralto.  Friday night during the excruciating second inning
of Freddy Garcia's short night's journey  onto the DL, I found
myself  muttering, "If it hurts, don't throw it."  If Garcia's
final half-dozen pitches were painful to watch, imagine the pain
of throwing them. No wonder the guy sweats out there like a
Roman Empire galley slave in a Mediterranean Sea heat wave.
Freddy opened the season on the disabled list with what was
pronounced as a strained right biceps. "Strained" has become the
generic description attached to all Phillies pitching injuries
this season. Brett Myers suffered a "strained" right shoulder on
the pitch in Miami that put him on his first DL. "Fine tuning"
is org-speak for "c