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- Updated: May 6, 2016
SAN DIEGO — The Padres were sporting their throwback uniforms recently, the ones with a splash of yellow.
Check that: a single Padre was rocking the old-school color on this day.
First baseman Wil Myers tipped his cap to the Padres’ popular hue of the past, but it’s not what you think.
“He had a mustard stain on his pants before the game,” Padres manager Andy Green said. “I said, ‘Wil, this is a major league baseball game. We got more pairs of pants.’ But he doesn’t care.”
Where there’s a Wil there’s usually a whiff of wackiness. Few Padres are performing better; no Padre has more fun.
“He just wants to go out and play baseball,” Green said before Friday’s game against the Mets. “He loves being on the field.”
Myers, 25, oozes with enthusiasm and an aw-shucks demeanor which is refreshing. If Myers was still a pipsqueak player, he’d be the kid with the jersey …
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