Picture Greg Bird. Now, picture Greg Bird in spring training earlier this year. Now, picture Greg Bird in late May, sprawled out on a couch in his boutique Manhattan hotel, shoveling microwaved popcorn into his mouth and giggling softly at Tom Hanks fruitlessly trying to catch Leonardo DiCaprio posing as a Pan American pilot.
That is apparently how a cornerstone of the Yankee youth movement is spending his time since his lingering ankle bruise put him on the 10-day DL and shut him down from baseball activity.
What's Greg Bird been doing with all of his unwanted time off?