No sense tempting the baseball gods, or angering the other team. No need to start talking about what you want to take home after your team wins the World Series.
San Francisco Giants pitcher Jake Peavy was a model of decorum Monday. Wyatt, his fifth-grade son, was not bound by superstition or etiquette.
When Peavy won the title with the Boston Red Sox last year, he spent a reported $75,000 to buy a duck boat, the amphibious Boston vehicles that carry tourists by land and by sea and carry Red Sox players on championship parades.
Peavy starts Game 6 of the World Series in Kansas City on Tuesday, with the Giants one victory from the championship. If a duck boat is the quintessential Boston souvenir, then a cable car would be the San Francisco treat.
Not that Peavy wanted to say so, not just yet. The Giants players and their families arrived in Kansas City late Monday afternoon, and Peavy invited two of his sons to join him at a news conference. The boys wore plaid dress shirts. Dad wore a blazer, and he artfully ducked the issue of the San Francisco equivalent of the duck boat.
"We kicked around some options on some memorabilia possibly to take home to commemorate this," Peavy said, "if we are fortunate enough to make it happen."
That would have sufficed if his son, seated next to him on the podium, had kept his mouth shut.
"We picked out a trolley car," Wyatt said, quietly.
"I'll get into that if and when this thing happens," Jake said, laughing.
"I think we already picked out our trolley car," Wyatt said, loudly.
Peavy made his major league debut at 21, with the San Diego Padres. At 26, he won the Cy Young Award. At 27, he signed what still is the richest contract in Padres history: $52 million.
He did not get to the World Series until last year, at 32, with the Red Sox. He made one start, lasted four innings, did not win. In Game 2 of this World Series, he lasted five innings and did not win.
On Tuesday, then, he can win the first World Series game of his career and clinch the title for the Giants too.
"I can't imagine anything being any sweeter than that," Peavy said. "This is the start that you play your whole career wanting."
If he wins, he can buy a cable car. Or, at least, he can afford to do so.
Two spokespersons for the San Francisco Municipal Railway, the agency that operates the cable cars, did not return messages Monday about how much a used cable car might cost or whether the agency has sold one to a private party.
But Peavy has been paid more than $100 million in his career, and he hits free agency this fall. He has landed in the World Series two consecutive years, so perhaps the Dodgers could sign him and throw in an old Pacific Electric red car, or the Angels could sign him and toss in a Disneyland trolley.
The duck boat left Boston last November, aboard a flatbed truck and bound for Peavy's Alabama property, a 5,000-acre estate called Southern Falls Plantation. Peavy said he hopes to rehabilitate the duck boat for the use of youth campers who can hunt, fish and play baseball there.
For now, though, the boat has "quit running," Peavy said. It needs a paint job, and Peavy is trying to figure out how to get one without paying extra to ship the boat — no pun intended — to Texas.
"My dad keeps saying he's going to get the duck boat painted," Wyatt said, "but right now it's covered in mildew."
That is just about enough out of you, young man. Don't you have some homework to do?
"I haven't done any of my homework," he said.
"You most certainly have," Jake said. "You haven't?"
"No, sir," Wyatt said.
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