Here’s a funny dialogue thanks to Craig Calcaterra at Hard Ball Times. I love his daily recaps of the previous days box scores. Here’s what he got from an inside source:
Bench Coach: Need to pinch hit. Send up Tuiasosopo.
Hitting Coach: What about Griffey?
Bench Coach: Ah, he’s a freakin’ corpse.
Griffey: I’m not dead.
Bench Coach:What?
Griffey: I’m not dead.
Hitting Coach:’Ere, he says he’s not dead.
Bench Coach: Yes he is.
Griffey: I’m not.
Hitting Coach: He isn’t.
Bench Coach: Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill.
Griffey:I’m getting better.
Bench Coach: No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
Griffey: I think I’ll go for a walk.
Bench Coach: You’re not fooling anyone, you know.
Griffey: I feel happy. I feel happy . . .
Good stuff, good stuff indeed.