Petrick has been in Gibson's shoes

MLB sends Gibson warm wishes 3:20 Kirk Gibson's colleagues around MLB react to his diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and wish the former big leaguer a healthy return Ben Petrick wondered about Kirk Gibson last year. He saw the mannerisms, listened to the sound bites from the normally energetic D-backs manager and thought the changes looked familiar.

He'd lived them.

"It was like watching me all over again," Petrick said as he returned home from errands Sunday morning in Oregon.

Petrick has Parkinson's disease. He knew it for most of his big league career, though his teammates didn't. Petrick dealt with the symptoms during his final Major League stop in 2003, playing for the Tigers, where Gibson…