clubhouse lawyer

Cooper Kupp is a team guy and decidedly not a clubhouse lawyer.

Aggressively taking on Seaver, who was the Mets’ union representative, Young declared the Mets’ golden boy not so golden after all: “Tom Tewwific,” he wrote, was a “pouting, griping, morale-breaking clubhouse lawyer who is poisoning the team.”

Aggressively taking on Seaver, who was the Mets’ union representative, Young declared the Mets’ golden boy not so golden after all: “Tom Tewwific,” he wrote, was a “pouting, griping, morale-breaking clubhouse lawyer who is poisoning the team.”

‘He was very smart. He knew the game. I used to call him the clubhouse lawyer - I mean that in a good way,” Oberkfell said.

The clubhouse lawyer had gone beyond his instructions.