The NBA is replete with characters and I’ve met many of them. Baseball is a bit more subdued, hidebound by ancient etiquette, demanding of public deference. Yet A’s closer Liam Hendriks stands out. He might even be the most interesting person I’ve come across in sports.
“We had a cat on the leash out recently, Winnie Cooper,” so said the relief pitcher, as he relaxed in the A’s spartan clubhouse last weekend. “She walks a lot better with my wife than she does with me.”
“Cat on a leash,” is not a metaphor or a slang term from Hendriks’ native Australia. He and his wife, Kristi, own five felines and they quite literally take their cats on walks alongside their two dogs.
“Two of the cats can walk pretty well on leashes, two are in between and one is just a no-go, Hendriks said.”
Winnie walks well but can be temperamental.
“Cat’s have their own personalities as do people,” Hendriks explained. “She is pretty...
KingKongEsco on August 29th, 2019 at 15:31 UTC »
Going by these comments a lot of you would be really shitty friends. It’s not about whose tickets are worth more. It’s about being good to the people who’ve been good to you.
athleticshark on August 29th, 2019 at 07:28 UTC »
I like how no one even bothered to mention the interesting parts of the article
Like how they wouldn't let an A's player leave after the baseball game when the Warriors were also playing because he didn't have 'priority"
The article lists multiple instance where the Warriors employees treated professional baseball players like shit
ziggmiceter on August 29th, 2019 at 07:06 UTC »
People are getting super bunched up about the first half but it's a really valid point. As soon as the Warriors got good they skipped town which is genuinely a pretty bad look.