Getting your player ready...
Rockies rookies can be so green. On Saturday, after his first career victory, .
“That guy’s great,” the 23-year-old Butler said of the 41-year-old Hawkins. “He told me earlier to shut up and sit down and get ready.”
And, as is tradition every September after rosters expand with rookie call-ups, the Rockies made fun of their rookies in an initiation. They left the Coors Field clubhouse after Sunday’s victory over Arizona in speedos (and, for Tommy Kahnle, in a clown suit for some reason). They rode the bus and the plane to San Diego in their swim gear:
USA ClassD-League Swim Team with a Clown in the middle
— LaTroy Hawkins (@LaTroyHawkins32)
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Tags: Eddie Butler, LaTroy Hawkins, rookies, Tommy Kahnle
