We had to share this hilarious WaPo story on the San Francisco Giants' pitcher Brian Wilson, who's quite a character on a team of characters. Here's the opening paragraph:
"One day in late August, the local Fox Sports channel in the Bay Area was conducting an interview with Brian Wilson, the San Francisco Giants' notoriously flaky closer, who was at his home on a webcam. Wilson, holding his pet dog on his lap, was in the middle of an answer, when all of a sudden the TV host, and the entire viewing audience, got an unexpected eyeful. A man appeared in the background, naked except for a leather thong, leather harness and leather mask. 'What was that!?' gasped the flabbergasted host. After first playing dumb, Wilson finally deadpanned, 'Oh, that's the Machine. He lives next door. He doesn't say much. He comes over for sugar every once in awhile.'"
"Their first baseman, Aubrey Huff, has been known to parade through the clubhouse in a red "rally thong" for laughs. Their ace pitcher, Tim Lincecum, has become a counterculture hero in San Francisco, in part because of an offseason marijuana-possession arrest - which has led proponents of Proposition 19, a proposed statute that would legalize marijuana statewide, to use his face on placards and T-shirts that say, 'Let Timmy Smoke.'"All we can say is, GO GIANTS!
(photo of Brian Wilson by E. Risberg, AP -- cooool man!)
