PHILADELPHIA — Nick Swisher's(notes) Game 3 line of 2-for-4 with a homer earned the previously slumping outfielder a trip to the World Series interview room on Saturday night. Before taking the stage, Swisher hammed it up with his own flip-cam, recording the moment (and the slightly annoyed amused media) for posterity's sake. He then sat down to answer a few questions and one of them was something about maintaining faith despite being benched for Game 2 and having every New York tabloid and blog write about his tiny numbers.

Said Swisher:  

"I don't really read the papers. I'm more of a guy that looks at the pictures."

You don't say.

I remain a conflicted man on Swisher. On one hand, we can't rip players for not showing emotion and then hypocritically rip them when they actually do. 

On the other, Swish reminds you of that guy in the back of your English class who never pays attention and keeps asking to go to the bathroom so he can go look in the doors of other classrooms and try to make his friends laugh. Funny at first, but after awhile you start looking for the 'off' switch.

Maybe he's just best taken in measured doses. What do you think?

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