I was listening to “The Show” on XM Channel 175, and they had David Murphy on. Was nice to see him get some national love. He said the usual stuff you’d expect about his team and all that. But the thing he talked about which made me post this entry was rookie hazing.
He talked about how the Rangers last year had their rookie hazing – they took the rookies, and the vets with the most service time got to pick a rookie’s name and had them wear what they wanted. Murphy said that Brad Wilkerson had picked him, and the next day there was a Tooth Fairy outfit in his locker to wear. So Murphy had to wear that on the plane flight, and also to some party that night as well.
He pointed out that he’s probably going to have to do it again this year, because of the oddity that he’s still technically a rookie. To make it worse, he had to do this in 2006 as well after being up with the Red Sox in September of 2006 too! He didn’t seem genuinely mad about it, but seemed like “Oh boy, I get to do this a third time now”
On the positive side, Murphy did mention that the Red Sox did give him a World Series ring after being up with them for just three games in 2007.