Posted April 17, 200619 yr I read this guy's blog frequently and it's chock full of cool articles on the Brewers from one of the only competant sports announcers. From Daron Sutton's blog, "The Dog Ate Daron's Homework": A day game after a night game can present many challenges for all involved in big league ball. The manager has to direct who will rest and who will not, those players that don?t get the rest must play a bit fatigued and speaking of fatigued, that would describe everyone else involved in the quick turnaround?from broadcasters to beer vendors. But there was no challenge for 36-year-young Jeff Cirillo,Rillo who was penciled in for his first start of the season under the warm St. Louis sun. Two winters ago Jeff probably did not imagine himself back in the big leagues, let alone earning a start. That fact did not escape the veteran as he sipped his morning coffee. ?Yeah, you bet I?m excited,? Rillo? told me, ?When I get to the plate, I?ll be blowing bubbles, with eye black on, just playing like a kid.? Playing like a kid. Isn?t that refreshing? Isn?t it also ironic that his old USC teammate, Brett Boone, had lost that kid within and disappeared from the only game he has ever known? Boone retired this spring and pointed to a Mets mate, 22-year-old Jose Reyes, and said he no longer could bounce around a ball field all day like Reyes. "It wasn't as easy as even three or four years ago, but I had lost the edge," Boone admitted in the New York Post, "I couldn't look in the mirror and think that I would get that edge back." Amazingly it was Jeff that played the role of Reyes this spring as he had an industrial sized spring in his step, clearly serving as motivation for the likes of JJ Hardy and Rickie Weeks. Cirillo_1 ?I felt younger. I knew that I was out of my mechanical flaw,? Jeff remembered, ?All the stuff that comes out of my mouth was positive. I celebrate every success.? Playing second base in the newborn Busch Stadium, there was a great deal to celebrate. That youthful bounce had him diving to take away a hit from Hector Luna and later an RBI from the game?s best player Albert Pujols.
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