Here’s Kevin Millar explaining why you never got his autograph
He told Seth Meyers he played crazy to get around Red Sox fans.
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When Kevin Millar was playing for the Red Sox, a lot was apparently going on behind the scenes that fans didn’t know about. On Thursday, Millar and another former Sox player, Sean Casey, shared a bit of insight into such things with Seth Meyers on Late Night.
They confirmed that Manny Ramirez did indeed put Viagra in some beverages and chatted about when Casey caught a foul ball at the Home Run Derby.
Millar also discussed his way of dodging Red Sox fans when he really needed to get somewhere.
“I used to walk off the bus, and you’d leave there, and there are people, and the next thing you know, you got fans,’’ Millar told Meyers. “And you can’t sign for everybody, and if you’ve got a two minute bus, you’ve gotta roll, right? You’ve got a stream of people.’’
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“So you’d have to fake [a] phone call walk of shame through,’’ he explained. “[You’d be like,] ‘Hello? Yeah, yeah,’ and you’re talking—‘What?! Come on, honey!’—and you start screaming and then it gets more uptight. Next thing you know, you’re good. Like, ‘Woah, that guy’s crazy, next. Lou Merloni, can I have your signature?’’’
“So you pretended to be crazy?’’ asked Meyers.
“I pretended to be crazy. I wasn’t crazy, correct.’’
OK, Kevin, gotcha.
What if the Red Sox were all homegrown?
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