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The day Ron Gardenhire became a video game character: 'Yowzer'

LAKELAND, Fla. — They zipped across the parking lot.

Detroit Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire rode in the passenger seat of a golf cart heading toward, well, he wasn’t sure exactly – something about a photo shoot for "MLB The Show," a video game he has never played and doesn’t know anything about.

“What is this?” Gardenhire asked.

“They put you between something like 48 cameras,” said Chad Crunk, the Tigers' director of baseball media relations. Crunk was driving the golf cart. “Two pictures. Then, you are done.”

“Then, I’m in a video game?