“I mean it’s cool, but I just think we’re so outnumbered, veterans to young guys.
He wants them to remember those moments that only come around once. Miley wants to give that back to the younger players. That’ll be in my house till I’ve sucked dirt - until I’m dead.” “We all toasted, drank it and then I got them to sign the empty bottle and put it back in the case. “We opened it up and I shared it with the team,” Miley said. Last season when he reached 10 years of MLB service time with the Reds, his then-teammate Joey Votto gifted him a bottle for the occasion. “Just try to keep it going so guys – especially young guys – can understand how special this is, how sacred it is to come up here and do something cool and be rewarded for it.”įor Miley, the tradition started when he was a young player and veterans would gift bottles of champagne to younger players. “You hit a milestone or do something really cool and it’s just a little tradition, I think,” Miley said.
Wade Miley holds a bottle of Ace of Spades that he would go on to give to Ian Happ to commemorate his first All-Star Game appearance. He had a box primed when the Cubs returned to Chicago from Los Angeles for Ian Happ to mark his first All-Star Game. “It’s from everybody.”Ī couple of weeks ago in Milwaukee, Miley had a bottle ready for Yan Gomes when he reached 10 years of big-league service time. Miley hands them out to rookies making their debuts or during milestones, but he insists they’re not from him. There are black Ace of Spades boxes sprinkled throughout the Cubs’ clubhouse with the gold ink commemorating various statistical markers. He isn’t the only Cub to have received the gift. But the gift was actually from a different veteran - pitcher Wade Miley. He thought the gift came from the Cubs’ veteran backstop. The box was signed by his teammates, too. It was signed in gold sharpie with congratulations for his debut and home run and the date on the box. Moments after his major league debut, Christopher Morel walked into the Cubs’ clubhouse with the elation of his first career home run still fresh.Īt his locker was Willson Contreras with a black box that had a bottle of Ace of Spades champagne in it.
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