Oakland Athletics Pitcher Dallas Braden Throws the Mother of All No-Nos

In "The 209" they call that pitchin'.

The days leading up to Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden's perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday—the 19th in MLB history and the first for Oakland since Catfish's 42 years ago—sure had its fair share of talkin'.

The New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez said he didn't want to extend Braden's "15 minutes" after continued questions and jawing about the controversy regarding the two players' baseball etiquette dust-up (mound dirt-up?) last month.

ESPN columnist J.A. Adande essentially called him a nobody on the World Wide Leader's flagship yammering sports columnist show, "Pardon The Interruption."

In his interview with Comcast Sports Bay Area's Mychael Urban four days ago, which re-ignited the A-Rod cont...

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