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Article: Hard work pays off for Barmes.
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- The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2005
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Byline: Milo Bryant
DENVER _ Clint Barmes twiddled his thumbs and had a slight smirk on his face as he remembered his childhood afternoons.
Barmes, now a shortstop for the Colorado Rockies, used to get home from school and wait. Every day, Barmes' father, Barry, would walk through the door.
"He'd come in every day and ask if I wanted to go to the cage," Barmes said while sitting in front of his locker at Coors Field. "How do you tell your dad, `No'? I never could tell my dad no."
Obviously that was a good thing.
Barmes' refusal to say "No" back then has turned into a big yes for the Rockies. That's a yes as in: Yes, the ...