"They could have thrown another ton of money at me, I was not going back," he says. "The whole time I was there was just terrible. What was told to me at the beginning before I signed, what would happen, where we'd live, the details, none of that ever happened."
Wilk played with Eric Hacker, who had brief major league stints with the Pirates, Mets and Giants, plus former White Sox minor leaguer Charlie Shirek.
"It was just a residential city," he says. "There were no parks. There was nothing to do in our free time. We were kind of on our own."
And there was a culture-shock element to the baseball.
"(The players) cheer like it's college," Wilks says. They cheer every strike, every ball. It's just softball style rah-rah. They didn't like that we didn't cheer like that. Well, we cheer when good things happen. We don't cheer when our guy strikes and loses the game with the bases loaded looking at a fastball. But they kind of do, so it gets a bit overwhelming at times. You just adjust to and deal with it."
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