Swisher goes yard, as in barnyard
Posted on February 25th, 2007 – 8:00 PMBy Joe Christensen
OK, here’s one more recent story for your snowed-in reading pleasure, written by the New York Times’ Lee Jenkins (another personal favorite), on the offseason training regimen Nick Swisher used to add 20 pounds. Yes, it addresses the obvious steroid speculation, but Swisher dismisses it, saying he swung a sledgehammer to chop trees and crush walls. He was at a farm in Ohio, where Marines train for boot camp.
“This is not Bally’s or Chelsea Piers,” said Bill Fry, the owner of the center. “We do some different stuff out here, some crude stuff. This is more like Rocky in Russia, running through Siberia and hitting sides of beef.”
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