Baseball players are creatures of habit, whether it's doing the same thing before a start for a pitcher or using the same bat in batting practice for a hitter, the quirks in baseball are unusual to say the least.
Wade Boggs use to eat some form of chicken before each game, imagine that...for almost 162 consecutive days you eat some poultry. I don't think I could have done that, I would hate it by the half way mark. Growing facial hair to stay out of a slum or because you are hitting well has been rampant in baseball. Especially the Yankees club house. Jason Giambi has been on a tear the last month and a half and he is sporting a very unfashionable 70's pornstar mustache, but he said thats the look he was going for. Johnny Damon followed suit and grew his own hidious hairy upper lip, he got rid of his a week later.
Across the river for the New York Mets, Oliver Perez always jumps over the foul line when exiting or entering and inning. Other players have worn the same hat with the sweat stains all year.
But the one that tops them all is earlier this year someone wrote about a gold thong that was in Jason Giambi's locker. Giambi said that thong has been in there for 12 years and its only to be used in "times of desperation." Giambi stated that when he is in a big slump he wears it and told Michael Kay on his radio show"When you wear it you cant think about your slum cause the thing is jammed so far up you, you cant think of anything else." Giambi also said that he shares the thong and Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon have used it as well. Talk about sharing is caring.
Baseball players are full of antics and good humor, some take it a little over board but thats just baseball. America's pastime, full of superstions.
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