For those of you who, like me, miss our Brady, here's a picture of him being inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame the other day. He still looks good, if you ask me.
I thought I heard at some point that he's living with some woman and they have a baby girl. I don't quite know what to think about that.
he's apparently been reading about how untucked shirts are all the thing now
Full Version: Brady Anderson
Dave Sheinin's column in yesterday's Washington Post addressed Brady's desire to make a comeback (even though he is now 40) and confirmed that Anderson "took this season off in part because he wanted to spend time with his daughter, Brianna, who turned 1 this month. True to his workout-freak nature, he has been staying in top shape through various training methods, including, for a time, playing in an elite flag football league and running with top sprinters at the University of California-Irvine"....I suppose he wasn't playing in the same flag football league as Stinger and Jim or we surely would have heard about it by now -- unless Stinger's "famous booty" got burned one too many times by Brady's blazing speed and he's too embarrassed to mention it. 
Getting back to his possible comeback, after VERY poor seasons at the plate in '01 and '02 I didn't realize that Brady was hitting .294 with a .455 on-base percentage (albeit while playing in the minors for Portland, the Padres AAA affiliate) when he was released midway through last season....to which he added, "If I was playing with the Padres this year, instead of last year, I wouldn't have gotten released -- because they're contending. That's one of the reasons I want to play again."
I'm not sure if it's purely for P.R. reasons in an effort to appease many of Anderson's former fans in "Charm City" but O's GM Jim Beattie appeared to leave the door open for a possible return to Baltimore when he said, "We would have to sit back and see where we stand. But the idea certainly has a good amount of appeal."
In either event, it was good to see Brady inducted into the O's Hall of Fame over the weekend -- even if his attire was a bit "casual" for the occasion....apparently part of his motivation for staying in shape is to avoid spring training at all costs as was quoted as saying, "Those are six weeks of training I don't need. Why do you think I quit? I mean, you can only stand 17 years of watching pitchers practicing covering first base."
~Joe
[ August 23, 2004, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: gamecock ]
Getting back to his possible comeback, after VERY poor seasons at the plate in '01 and '02 I didn't realize that Brady was hitting .294 with a .455 on-base percentage (albeit while playing in the minors for Portland, the Padres AAA affiliate) when he was released midway through last season....to which he added, "If I was playing with the Padres this year, instead of last year, I wouldn't have gotten released -- because they're contending. That's one of the reasons I want to play again."
I'm not sure if it's purely for P.R. reasons in an effort to appease many of Anderson's former fans in "Charm City" but O's GM Jim Beattie appeared to leave the door open for a possible return to Baltimore when he said, "We would have to sit back and see where we stand. But the idea certainly has a good amount of appeal."
In either event, it was good to see Brady inducted into the O's Hall of Fame over the weekend -- even if his attire was a bit "casual" for the occasion....apparently part of his motivation for staying in shape is to avoid spring training at all costs as was quoted as saying, "Those are six weeks of training I don't need. Why do you think I quit? I mean, you can only stand 17 years of watching pitchers practicing covering first base."
~Joe
[ August 23, 2004, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: gamecock ]
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