The Batboy by Mike Lupica

Author:Mike Lupica
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-10-08T14:26:44.716000+00:00

It was three thirty in the afternoon, middle game of the Red Sox series, halfway through the home stand, the Tigers riding a four-game winning streak, and Brian and Finn were in Equipment Room No. 3, the real start of their day.

“Here’s what you need to do, if you want my opinion,” Finn was saying.

“Wait a second,” Brian said. “This opinion, the one you’re about to give me, is this one I have a choice about?”

“Yes,” Finn said. “But I’m telling you in advance, it’s not one you’d want to miss out on.”

They were changing out of their own clothes and into their Tigers golf shirts.

“I’m going to risk it,” Brian said.

“I know you well enough already to know you don’t mean that,” Finn said.

He turned now, having pulled his shirt over his head.

“You gotta stop thinking you’re going to get to know Hank the Crank,” Finn said. “Get to know what he’s really like.”

He put air quotes around really.

“Why’s that?”

“Because this is what he’s really like!” Finn said.

“I still don’t believe that,” Brian said.

Finn acted as if he hadn’t even heard him. “And I’ve got another bombshell for you.”

“Wow,” Brian said. “Who’s luckier than me today?”

“All those questions you tell me you want to ask him about being a former juicer? Say you did ask him one day in a moment of complete wigged-out insanity. You think he’d give you an honest answer? He still won’t admit he even took the drugs, remember? Says he didn’t know what his trainer was giving him.”

“I still want to know.”

“Dude,” Finn said. “You’re the big history guy, remember? You’re the one who told me that guys wouldn’t tell the truth about drugs even when they went in front of Congress.”

“Yeah. Mark McGwire said he didn’t want to talk about the past on a day all they wanted from him was to talk about the past.”

“You need to start focusing on the guys who actually like having us around,” Finn said. “Not Hank the Crank, who acts like we were the ones who suspended him from baseball.”

Brian thinking: The guy acts like he’s still suspended.

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