You know it's Spring Training when Richard Justice throws out the first boot-licking...
Richard Justice opens mouth, extends tongue, reaches for Brad Lidge's spikes:
He might be the most respected player in his own clubhouse. He might be the most well-liked, too.
Those are two basic things to know about Brad Lidge. They're the backdrop for everything else you'll read about him in this column.
When you listen to people in the clubhouse and up in the front office talk about him, you realize how special those who know him best think he is.
For instance, Brad Ausmus.
"He's such a good person and solid human being," he said. "I've said before he might be the only baseball player I'd allow my daughter to marry."
What, Bradchick? Can't find a new Jewish boy for the girl, nu?
Look, if my wife's wondering about the fifteen boxes of Alpha Bits cereal I bought this week, it's so that I can render this article up in cereal format.
Justice can eat it when Lidge's ERA is in the upper 7s come June, Dan Wheeler's shaking his glove a hell of a lot in the ninth, and Brad Ausmus' daughter hooks up with a nice orthodontist from Miami Beach.
Posted by Laurence Simon @ 02/20/07 08:45 AM | Print | Comments (1)
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