Apparently, candy is bad for you. Did anyone else know that? Joe Girardi does. The Yankee manager has officially banned candy from the clubhouse during the pregame, postgame and during-game player visits to the locker room.
Not only will there not be no candy permitted in the Yankee Stadium clubhouse, but there will also be no candy to welcome the Yankees on the road. Girardi has contacted all future road teams in an effort to make sure that there is no junk food waiting for his team in the visiting locker room. Usually, the Yankees arrive to an array of candy and ice cream. When they showed up in Tampa two weeks ago, there was a smorgasbord of dried fruit and nuts waiting for them. In Baltimore, the ice cream freezer was removed from the clubhouse and wrapped up outside the door so that no player would be able to steal any frozen goodies.
How fat exactly are Girardi's players that he would actually worry about them breaking out of the clubhouse and stealing a Froze Fruit after a game? Is wrapping up the freezer really necessary when Derek Jeter can probably afford his own pint of ice cream after the game, anyway? Either way, the non-sweets rule does not seem to be working as the Yanks have gone 11-11 since Girardi installed it.
FireJoeMorgan.com has something to say about Girardi's ban on candy.
- D. Spell
1 comment:
Maybe Girardi should concentrate on teaching Giambi how to hit to left rather than policing the clubhouse for Starbursts and Baby Ruths. And speaking of Baby Ruths, it didn't seem to hurt his numbers.
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