That's yielded, among other things, a habit between several teammates of going fishing together. Ever the pack leader, Kimura persuaded teammates to pool money and buy a fishing boat. They had no other place to store it but in the Dick's Sporting Goods Park parking lot, infuriating stadium security, which kept pestering the players about moving it.

Tired of hauling the boat from one side of the lot to the other every so often, the players eventually found a hiding place for it on the stadium grounds, where it remains out of the reach of security personnel.