Monday, April 02, 2007

“Baseball Stud”

This is the title of an article in this weeks New York magazine featuring - no, not Julio Franco - yes, Mr. D. Wright. The article begins with him bowling in Port St. Lucie (not on the same evening that TBF and I debated the virtues of bowling vs. mini-golf, and instead had dinner and went to sleep early since we were so damn tired - but everyone else saw him at the bowling alley), and continues with some choice quotes from his teammates.

I like it because it isn’t fawning and it’s also not trying to knock him down either.

“Ohhhwaaa!” DeLuca shouted. “See that? Not the play. But see that smile? That’s what I’m talking about! That charisma! I’m telling you, man, he’s our Jeter.”
“Our wives love him,” added Gomez, for emphasis.
“Our wives want to marry him!”
“They really do!”
“Hell, I want to marry the kid,” said DeLuca, clinking bottles with Gomez. “I said to my wife—I said, ‘Honey, if I don’t come back, it means I ran away with David Wright.’ He’s helped bring the fun back to this team, okay? Which, believe you me, was missing for a long, long time.”

...which is probably what they’re taling about when they say “The women want to marry him - and the men want to marry him too.”