May 26 2014 06:24 PM
Seemed like a good character. Big, broad-shouldered, back-slappy. Took shit from people on Twitter with grace. Managed in Latin America in the winters and scouted Bobby Abreu for us down there. Big honking manly nose. You know he's not much of a drinking man, because a nose like that would betray a fella in a second.
Has, I think, a young adult son and daughter who seem like his best buds, who join him down in Venezuela sometimes in the offseason. That's a hardcore baseball lifer bringing family down to Venezuela in these times, especially family that's of the Age of Terrible Judgment.
Never seemed to want to grow his facial hair in fully, and seemingly perpetually was sporting the scruffy beginnings of a Van Dyke or the scruffy beginnings of a mustache. Hard wiry stuff that would come in thick and coily if he let it, but he didn't, and a few days of beard is one thing, maintaining a saucy stubble, but a long-term early stage mustache looks confusing. Grow it in or shave it off.
Destined to one day be conflated with Dave Jauss by me. But not THIS day. Godspeed, Dave Hudgens. Stop squinting
