I know this is old news, but I have yet to see a correct explanation for Dave Cone's NC-17 description of Ian Kennedy's bullpen practices Wednesday night.When a relief pitcher warms up and "gets hot" [begins throwing at full effort] in the bullpen, said reliever is under the mindset that he will soon enter the current game. If Dave Eiland drops a line to the bullpen phone and tells that reliever to sit back down, it's commonly referred to as a "dry hump." In more vulgar baseball parlance, the same action is known as "getting jerked off."
In the case of Kennedy, the young starter warmed up in the bullpen before the start of Wednesday's game, believing he would start said contest. When Joe Girardi decided to begin the game with Brian Bruney, Kennedy was told to halt his pregame preparation and was consequently "jerked off" in Cone's mind. I'm not sure what Ike and his new bride do in their own time, but I would venture to think she isn't taking care of her Trojan during bullpen warmups.
Here's the video via NYSI:
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