Baggarly: Huff credits Burrell for his blossoming as Huff Daddy

Pat the uhh, laughable bat.

You knew Huff’s next story about Burrell would be good. He prefaced it by saying, “Awww, I’m sure Pat won’t care if I tell this.”

“After two weeks at Miami, I wanted to go home,” Huff said. “So my mom flies out, trying to convince me to stay. I was living with two seniors and they ragged me, too. I just didn’t understand all this baseball ragging nonsense. She’s in my room one night and I’m sitting on my bed and she’s telling me to give it another two weeks.

“Anyway, there’s a knock on the door, and before I can even get off the bed, Pat comes barging in with a six-pack in his hand, dripping wet, buck naked.

“So I jumped up and shut the door. Coming from Texas, these things didn’t happen. I said, ‘See what I’m dealing with here, mom?’

“She just started laughing and said, ‘Actually, Aubrey, that’s pretty darn funny.’

“I thought, ‘My God, if my mom can laugh at this, why can’t I?’ “