From Portfolio Magazine:Jason Giambi has a deep, dark secret. Deeper than his compulsion to sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door, and darker than his dream of growing up to be a heavy-metal musician.
The deepest, darkest secret harbored by the New York Yankees first baseman is that whenever he is in a prolonged hitting funk, he wears a gold lamé, tiger-stripe thong under his uniform. "I only put it on when I'm desperate to get out of a big slump," he confides.
Over Giambi's checkered career in the Bronx, he has left the "golden thong" in the lockers of slumping teammates Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robin Ventura, and Robinson Cano. "All of them wore it and got hits," he reports. "The thong works every time."
I'm sorry, this may be way too much information for people, in fact, it's too much info for me, but it is funny. This reminds me of 'Nuke' LaLoosh in Bull Durham wearing the garders.
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"I could care less. As long as I can have a fast boat and a margarita machine and can light my hair on fire, I'll be just fine."
Giambi makes this statement when asked about retirement. Interesting that the NY Daily News (link below) leaves out the retirement part, and instead tacks this last half of the Giambi quote onto the end of the article, right after a comment about fans booing Giambi. Makes it sound like Giambi is saying he couldn't care less about the booing. Cheapshot, wow.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/05/16/2008-05-16_jason_giambi_wears_thong_when_in_slump_s.html
Hmmm, after a second read, maybe they didn't mean to do that. Just not entirely clear.
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