PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- It's shortly after 8:30 a.m. at the Tampa Bay Rays spring training facility, and the clubhouse doors are shut for a players-only meeting.
The media has been asked to step outside, and the team is presumably getting down to some serious business.
Through the walls, thumping and screaming are plainly audible, as if a scene from "Fight Club" is being played out inside. Before long, what is actually happening becomes apparent, and it's uglier than almost any physical confrontation imaginable.
It's karaoke.
Rookies and minor leaguers are painfully belting out the lyrics to "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift, "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" by Otis Redding and "Friends In Low Places" by Garth Brooks.