Remember in elementary school when you used to pick on the girls who wouldn’t play sports at recess.

"What are you, afraid you’re gonna break a nail?"

Apparantly, even in Major League Baseball, breaking a fingernail is reason enough not to play.

The Red Sox placed rookie pitcher Clay Buchholz on the 15-day DL due to a broken nail on his right middle finger.

Calls to his manicurist were not returned.

Boston is confident that Buchholz’s cuticles will heal properly and that he won’t need Tammy Jane surgery.