Which is worse? Falling asleep during the middle of the game as a bench player or as a broadcaster? Well, thanks to Ken Griffey Jr. and Keith Hernandez, we got a taste of both instances this week. Hey, it’s a long, boring game. It happens.

The word on the street is that Ken Griffey Jr. missed a chance to enter a game as a pinch hitter last week because he was asleep in the clubhouse. As an unnamed teammate claims, Junior has had trouble getting sleep at home. ”He was asleep in the clubhouse… He’d gone back about the fifth inning to get a jacket and didn’t come back. I went back in about the seventh inning — and he was in his chair, sound asleep.”

Fortunately for Griffey, nobody has concrete proof. The same cannot be said for Keith Hernandez. He took a self-described “cat nap” during the extra innings of Saturday’s Mets win over the Giants.

Wake up, Keith! How else are we going to be informed of any women in the dugout who don’t belong there?