European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 1, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary Wajcs erase ref f is pitying pleasure show me any red blooded Young american male who would  in his Gold credit card in a minute and give up practically anything if he could Only can ofic places with George Brett. Maybe you can think of somebody who would t jump at the Chance to switch places with Kansas City s clutch hitting third baseman but i can to you name it. Brett has it and i m not talking about Only he Money he makes from the royals. The annual $1,471,419 he s paid by them does t include some other provisions of his contract Hist along with his endorsements and investments boost thai figure to Well Over 2 Mil a year. Being a healthy Good looking Bachelor Able to Cook his own dinner or do his own laundry Brett has about As much trouble getting women As tie docs getting base his. If you remember How close he came to hitting .400 six years stg then you know How. Much trouble hat Isth future is just As Bright for bred lie s already the royals no. I Monument. Need that explained babe Ruth is inc Yankees greatest Monument Ted Williams the red sox a Wil lie Mays the giant Stan Musial the cardinals. Every one of them is in the Hall of Fame and Brett Likely will join them when he s through. He in t even 33 yet. He will be in a couple of weeks. Although he sees no reason Why he can t play another five or six years maybe even More he does t have 10 play another inning if no does t care to because he s financially set Cor life. He can sit in Bat comfortably spacious Home of his in Rancho Mirage calif., the rest of his Days and never move a muscle. He can lie Back if he likes close his eyes and just listen to his Beard grow. So what he s playing for now is the simple pleasure of it. Unhappily for him As Well As for Kansas City fans much of that pleasure has been missing lately because of All the bases on balls Brett has been Given. His 20 walks Lead the majors. Five of them have been intentional and he also has been hit by pitches twice. Frequently even when he in t purposely walked he does t gel Ood pitches to hit. Opposing hurlers Pilch around him and  Sci . Last week was the first time this season he went two straight games without a walk. Bobby Cox did t make any secret of what he in tended having his Blue Jay pitchers do before last fall s playoff with the royals in Toronto. Managing the Blue jays then he instructed his pitchers never to it them selves get Beuton by Brett s Bat. In other words pitch around him  came up with runners in scor ing position Aad first base open. Jimy Williams inc Blue jays new manager obviously feels inc same Way cot does. In the royals. Last series in Toronto Orch Drew no less than seven walks and was Hil by pitches twice. He had doubled his Fin i to limes up in pc i Fuji pc opener against the Blue jays earlier in the month. Brett Drew a pass later in that contest As Well As in the two subsequent Jami in Hal series with Toronto. Other clubs Haven t gone to quite hat extreme with Brett but they be also been pitching around hint As much As they can. Naturally. Brell is less than thrilled. It lakes a Loila fun out of Ike game he says. The most enjoyment i be had in my 12 years in baseball is Hilling and when you go up there and they ton t give you a Chance to hit it gels frustrating after  what the of her clubs arc trying to do is Force Brell to lose his patience. That s the one thing i Don t Wanna do because As soon As i do it Means i la Start swinging at bad balls out of the strike zone Erelt says. Thai s  hey Waul me to do. As soon Ai i do thai icy win at the Rale he drawing walks if it s continued chit the entire season Bruti would wind up with nearly 190 unit wipe out the record of 170 set by Date Kush in 1923, thai s nol a record i d like to break Brett says. I d much rather break the record for must jails in �  the late George Sisler set shul one with 257 playing for Chest Louis Browns in 1020. To what extern the pitchers will keep walking Hreibi. Who is batting third and has four Jinow runs will de Pend largely on How Well Frank White docs Hilling behind him in the cleanup spot. White k doing Wati hitting .296 and leading the club with 10 Bis. Yet Brett is far below his Normal Pacu at .140. But his .466 on base percentage has him else to the top in the icngucanu1 Schas eight Iris. They re not pitching to it Corgi and they re real obvious about it but 1 Don l take in personally when icy walk him to gel at me White says. I think they re saying George is the Best Hitler on the team the Best hitter in the league and they d rather Lake their chances with me. It s of it guts my adrenalin  royals manager Dick i dowser believes it would be useless to iry moving Brett around in Trie bailing order where can 1 put him he asks. They re Gonna find him no Mailer where he is. I can t hide  no matter what. Brilt can t say he s completely shocked by what s happening to him. He got ample warning when Jim Leyland the pirates new manager ordered him intentionally walked last month in an. Exhibition game in Florida. Hank Bauer the old Yankee outfielder wlm once managed Kansas City and Baltimore was astounded by the move. I be been around baseball a Long Lime and i never saw anyone intentionally walked in a Spring exhibition game before he says never in my whole  uni Ltd Prthu  Ketton met Cebu 7 and Gary cart mets show who s dealing the cards Atlanta a not even Lii 1969, when Miracle und mets became synonym. Mous . Never in their previous 24 years did Ibe new York mets win so often so fast. Certainty not against St. Louis a year ago they lost eight of heir first 12 games against the cardinals including five of the first six in St. Louis. By the time icy established near balance winning two of three at Shea stadium then two of three at Busch stadium to finish Sio against the car Donau the National league Easl championship was beyond heir reach. We Don t want to have to win this pen Nant in Augast and september mets Sec Ond baseman Wally Backman said. There s a lot of talk around the clubhouse about winning it Early april May june Al the Start Detroit proved hat could be done in b4," when you play a team that on paper figures to be the earn to beat it s always important u let them know you can beat them mets manager Davey Johnson said after new York did so most emphatically completing a four game sweep Over St. Louis with a a i Victory sunday. The Triumph gave new York an 11-3 re Cord and a winning percentage of .786, the Best in the major leagues and the Best Shari in its history. St. Louis which won seven of its first eight games fell to 7-8 after sunday Sloss a split at san Francisco leaves them 8-9. We be had some rough memories Here Johnson said at Busch stadium. It s kind of Nice to come in Here and play As Well As we did. 11 kind of proves lost. Louis that we can heal them. Last year they gave us a hard Lime they gave everybody u hard  this sets a tone said first baseman Keith Hernandez the one Lime Cardinal _ who is booed each time he appears in is. Lauis this was a Wake up Call we re beating them the Way they Beai us last  the sweep was the mils first in St. Louis in seven years. The nine game winning Streak they look into tuesday night s game against Atlanta is the longest in he majors this year it s also two shy of the mils record of 11, set in 1969 and mulched in 1972. We re a better team than we were last year Hernandez said. Last year they did t have Kevin Milch Ell Tim Teasel or Bob Ojeda. Sunday Mitchell hit a bases empty Home run in the fourth inning then singled ahead of Teucci s Homer in the fifth. And Ojeda 3-0, scattered nine hits in Oul Pilch ing is Louis Ace John Tudor. Jackson from Page 17 Jackson a g-fool-1. 225-pounu" tailback said. Alone he has Lonc 11 Nul Luva a lot for Tampa and i Hope he continues to do so "1 be a Baycil baseball All my life and foot Ball for 8-9 years. I m sticking to my guns and i won t decide until after the baseball draft. If inc baseball draft was Loday. The nil people probably wont want me to Wall fur their  Jackson would not indicate whether he wus leaning toward Foo Ibal or baseball but he did say that he might have something to prove to those people who doubt his skills in the Bailer s Box i like challenges the outfielder said. I love milking liars out of people there Are people who say if to goes baseball he will have trouble with the curve Ball. Some peo ple will continue to have doubts Aboul so i la use at of thai to fuel my  Jackson has nol hit a curve Ball or any other pitch in months. Earlier this year the bucs flew him to Tampa for a physical examination because he bucs paid for the trip the Southeast conference declared him ineligible to play baseball for the rest of the season. In Tampa bucs owner Hugh culverhouse said he is prepared to make Jackson he High est paid Rookie in nil history giving him More than dollars and cents. I can offer him career and investment opportunities. We have a goal to sign him. If it s a ques Tion of Money Well  but Jackson said Money will not be the decisive Factor. I Don t want people to say in the Long run Hinl to wus bought Iha he did something because somebody said they could a this or that for to. It will be because it s what 1 want to do Jackson said. When i make my decision it will come strictly from to he said adding that the determining Factor on baseball versus to. Ball will be my  Jackson rushed for 4,303 Yards scored 43 touchdowns and averaged 6.6 Yards per carry during his career at Auburn