When playing in Milwaukee, most professional baseball and basketball players stay in the historical Pfister Hotel…except for the Giants’ Pablo Sandoval and Edgar Renteria, who say it scares the beejesus out of them.
From the Sacramento Bee:
While the rest of the traveling party is staying at the historic – and reputedly haunted – Pfister Hotel, Edgar Renteria and Pablo Sandoval requested rooms down the street at the Intercontinental. Sandoval got spooked last season. Renteria found the experience more leery than eerie, too.
“I slept like a baby last night,” Renteria said.
Some have complained about hearing weird noises while staying at the Pfister and at least one player reportedly sleeps with a bat when his team travels to Milwaukee. Brendan Ryan of the Cardinals also said that he saw “a moving light that kind of passed through the room” on one occasion.
I for one don’t believe in ghosts, but if I were a professional ball player, I might do the same thing Sandoval and Renteria did and stay somewhere else. I wouldn’t want to go 0-for-4 with three strikeouts because I was up all night talking to dead great, great grandmother. C.R.E.E.P.Y.
Of course, staying at another hotel certainly didn’t help Renteria’s game. He came off the bench in the seventh inning of the Giants’ win over the Brewers on Monday to lay down a bunt and instead popped up two attempts. The first one went foul, while the second wound up in Milwaukee catcher Jonathan Lucroy’s mitt.
