posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:44 AM
by
Jim
Sharing a locker room quietly
Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends...
I don't even need to tell you who the author is:
His walk is still the same slow-paced strut, right out of a bad spaghetti western.
His approach to the media is still the same ''you need me more than I need you'' attitude. [...]
The right-hander is 4-3 with a 4.30 ERA after a rough start in his
native Southern California -- not exactly the type of numbers you want
in a walk year -- but in typical Garland fashion, he said free agency
had absolutely nothing to do with the performance.
...old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears.