The Florida Marlins finished out their series against the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday, and at least a couple players couldn’t be happier to get out of the Brew City. At least two pairs of Marlins players were sharing rooms at their hotel because of their fear of ghosts. It seems that the Marlins are staying at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, the high class hotel is also famous for ghost sightings and other paranormal activity. Reportedly, the most popular sighting is of the hotel’s founder, Charles Pfister overlooking the lobby from the grand staircase.
The Marlins’ Josh Johnson and Dan Meyer had separate but adjoining rooms. “Every time there was a noise, JJ would yell, ‘It’s the ghosts,'” Meyer said.
“I heard a couple of noises,” Chris Volstad said with a laugh, “but I just closed my eyes.”
The Marlins aren’t the only ones to experience something scary while staying at the lovely Pfister. When he was with the Dodgers, Adrian Beltre reportedly was so scared he would sleep with a baseball bat in his bed just in case a specter came after him (the Dodgers no longer stay at the Pfister.) Last June the Twins’ Carlos Gomez got scared when his iPod, sitting on a table kept vibrating, despite Gomez turning it off several times. Sounds SPOOKY!
The players should be thankful that the ghosts of the Pfister don’t do something much much worse.
[Palm Beach Post]
Here’s something we’ll probably never see out of an American sports team athlete; Pal Dardai, a 33 year old Hungarian midfielder on Hertha in the German Bundesliga promised the local fans that if at least 55,000 people showed up for the final 5 home games he’d buy everyone there a beer. On Saturday, the over 74,000 fans in attendance all received a coupon for a free beer at the game (or their choice of a soft drink but c’mon, it’s GERMANY, even the 9 year olds were ordering lagers.)
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