Sweat, Frillies, sweat!
That usually cool-as-a-cucumber team from Philadelphia is wilting under the World Series pressure here in New York, acting like a bunch of uptight deer-in-the-headlights rubes since they arrived, people close to them said yesterday.
“The rest of the year as well, we bust their balls and give them a hard time, but now they seem much more uptight and stoic — so the staff is laying off them a bit,” said an employee at Le Parker Meridien hotel on West 56th Street.
Instead of keeping to their usually highly regimented diets, the players are pigging out like a claque of teenage schoolgirls who just got dumped.
“They are not watching what they eat. They have been eating lots of huevos rancheros,” said a source at a restaurant near the hotel.