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July 04, 2006
Doug Padilla: The lighter side
A baseball clubhouse can be a funny place so on the Fourth of July we observed the top five lighthearted moments of the day.
No. 5: Angels announcer Rex Hudler entertained a group of reporters by recalling the day he spent as a player in Japan when he ate a worm. He did it for Japanese equivalent of $1,000 U.S. In seven Japanese newspapers the next day Hudler was presented as the crazy American who ate a worm.
No. 4: Mike Scioscia doesn't care to be called “skipper,� yet that's what a TV cameraman did when he was getting sound bites. He not only prefaced a question by calling Scioscia “Skip,� but he called him “Skip� again when leaving his office.
No. 3: Vladimir Guerrero must be feeling good about himself. He's been wearing a Superman T-shirt lately in the clubhouse. Or perhaps it's just a tie-in to the recently-released Superman movie.
No. 2: Ervin Santana felt obligated to help the same cameraman who called Scioscia “Skip.� The cameraman was trying to hold his camera and a microphone to record Santana's statements. So Santana grabbed the microphone and looked like a reporter presenting an on-air piece.
No. 1: Leave it to players to watch their own lives unfold on television. Many Angels players were stationed in front of the television for an ESPN piece that gave a behind-the-scenes look at what the Houston Astros go through on a road trip. Makes you wonder what the Angels players found so interesting.
Posted by Doug Padilla at July 4, 2006 05:17 PM