St. Louis Cardinals Gameday – June 2018

CARDINALS MAGAZINE 23

Best birthday present:

A foot massager, one of those sit-down models from Brookstone.

• Skip Schumaker, Issue 6, 2009

If I could change one rule in baseball, I would:

Get rid of instant replay. Too slow. I want to see managers get thrown out of the game arguing.

I want to see excitement. – Matt Bowman, Issue 6, 2016

Make it so you’d get half a hit for lining out. – Mark DeRosa, Issue 4, 2009

I don’t understand the fascination with:

Chess. That game looks boring. It looks like it hurts your brain. – Greg Garcia, Issue 4, 2016

Skinny jeans. They don’t look comfortable to me. My legs are too big to fit into skinny jeans.

• Daniel Descalso, Issue 3, 2012

Dressing dogs like humans. I hate it and will never do it. – Matt Carpenter, Issue 4, 2012

I’m annoyed by:

When I go through a drive-thru and ask for a burger, and then they ask, “Would you

like the meal with that?” If I wanted the meal, I’d ask for the meal. But I’m assuming

they’re supposed to do that. I’m not a fry guy, so I usually double up on the burger.

• David Freese, Issue 2, 2011

When people don’t try to get rid of their hiccups. I’ve been a victim of hiccups like

everyone, but when someone sits there and doesn’t try to get rid of them, I want to

self-destruct. – Luke Weaver, Issue 5, 2016

People chomping on ice really loud, like Jon Jay, and people not putting caps back

on things like toothpaste and shampoo. – Daniel Descalso, Issue 3, 2012

People who are late ... traffic ... people who wear workout gloves in the gym and

shadowboxers. – Joe Kelly, Issue 6, 2012

Best celebrity encounter:

I was at a hotel in New York City in the offseason, washing my hands in the bathroom. I looked to my

right, and there’s Leonardo DiCaprio, casually washing his hands. I’m like, what do I say? So I looked at

him in the mirror and said, “I just want to let you know – I think you’re the man. Huge fan of everything

you do.” And he’s like, “Thank you, thank you.” And he gave me a little fist bump and walked out.

• Harrison Bader, Issue 7, 2016-17

Meeting Jeff Bagwell in the Astros clubhouse when I was a kid. The funny story was I saw Craig Biggio’s

locker, an open locker, then Bagwell’s locker. I asked them why they had an open locker, and Bagwell

said, “Because we’re saving it for you.” That was pretty smooth. – Randal Grichuk, Issue 6, 2014

Harrison

Bader

Matt

Belisle

David Freese

Greg Garcia

The thing that surprised me the most
about the big leagues:
How not-so-glamorous it is. You’re well taken
care of, but it’s a lonely game. You’re away
from your family so much. You spend a lot of
time in hotel rooms. I’m not complaining –
I love my job. But you dream it up to be this
really glamorous thing. It’s a job that I love,
but it’s a job. – Nick Punto, Issue 3, 2011

Favorite baseball stat:

I don’t ever look at ’em. One of my favorite baseball

quotes – I think from Casey Stengel – when someone

asked, “What is it about this team you enjoy so much?”

He grabbed a guy from the batting cage and said, “Hey,

what are you hitting?” And the guy said, “I got no idea,

skipper.” And he said, “That’s why I love my crew,

because they’re all about each other and about winning

the World Series. They don’t care about individual stuff.”

• Matt Belisle, Issue 1, 2015