ATLANTA – The cooler had a sticker on it that said, “ENERGY DRINKS IN HERE.”
It sat by the door leading from the visitor’s clubhouse at Turner Field to the dugout, the best example of the Detroit Tigers’ mindset heading into their biggest series of the season.
When unsuspecting persons opened the cooler, grabbing Casey McGehee a Red Bull or Justin Verlander an energy drink, they were startled: There were no drinks, only a plastic snake, tied to the lid.
“I think fun is a very appropriate word,” manager Brad Ausmus said before the game.
And the Tigers wasted no time taking their fun from the clubhouse onto the field on Friday night.