We're leaving this evening for the Atlanta Pants Party — the All You Can Eat tickets we ended up buyingwill assure that we'll be sweating BBQ wings for the next week — so, to get in the spirit of the local franchise, we watched this video devoted to new Brave Mark Teixeira. We really hope they nailed this on the first take.
One of our larger fears when we launched this whole Athlete Run-In series was that all the stories would be negative ones, in which athletes do something stupid or assholish, and we sit here and snicker and mock them and generally stay on the couch and make fun of people. Fortunately, as with the Matt Leinart story last week, some of the best ones are when athletes are unusually cool, accommodating and, get this, human.
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