Aubrey Huff Wearing a Red Thong as a Slump Buster

Aubrey Huff is in a 3-for-32 slump. He didn’t hit a ball out of the infield tonight. Before Juan Uribe’s huge homer in the ninth, it looked like Huff’s pop-up with the tying run at first base in the eighth would be a huge letdown.

Anyway, like most baseball players, Huff is superstitious. So he made a little, ahem, alteration to his uniform to help change his luck.

He’s wearing a red thong. And not the kind that Omar Vizquel used to wear. I’m pretty sure this one came from the lingerie department, not men’s furnishings.

“We’re 3-1 with it,” he blared after tonight’s raucous victory. “I might never get a hit the rest of the year, though.”

Speaking personally, the last thing we need is for Huff to go 4-for-4 with the thong. Then he’ll wear it the rest of the season. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be a problem, but he walks around the clubhouse in it. He conducts interviews wearing only his thong. I’m not sure about this, but I think he wears little else while in the food room, too.

That can’t fly with the health inspector.

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Whenever the Giants get a huge victory, Huff’s reaction is the best. He’s waited a decade for moments like these. And he, along with Pat Burrell, also started a little tradition in the dugout: The slug-a-teammate maneuver.

When something remarkable happens on the field, you’ll see Huff punch guys in the chest. There was just one problem tonight.

“I really wanted to, but I think I was standing next to DeRosa,” Huff said. “He’s hurt. I didn’t want to punch a hurt guy.”

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So I hear that Huff and Burrell got themselves matching yellow blazers with the University of Miami logo on the chest. They wore them on the team flight down to Los Angeles. They probably looked like bowl representatives.

No need to make a visit to watch USC, though. Bah-dum-dum.



(mercurynews.com)