By Eric Neel
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

It's 45 minutes before batting practice, when a voice rises above the pregame chatter in the Angels clubhouse: "Stay humble." Seconds later, like an amen coming from the congregation, a teammate hollers back: "Stay humble!" The phrase has become their mantra. Players wear it in white letters across the front of red T-shirts, and it's written with half a dozen exclamation points on a dry-erase board. Kelvim Escobar and John Lackey fist-bump and whisper it, all secret-password style, as they pas ...

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