Ned Yost follows tradition when he hunts for deer with Jeff Foxworthy

There are two traditions that matter to Ned Yost at this time of the year.

Post-season baseball and deer hunting.

Yost has been preoccupied managing the Royals this October, as he was last fall. But once the season is over, he will be on his ranch in western Georgia, hunting with friend comedian Jeff Foxworthy and other major-league players such as Jon Lester, J.D. Drew and Kevin Millwood.

For them, fall is one big deer camp. That’s the way it has been for almost 10 years now.

“I am hunting every day of the season,” Yost told The Star in 2014. “From the time baseball season ends and I get back to the ranch, I’ll be out every day until the bow season ends.

“The great thing is that we’re not on stage. We can just be ourselves.”

The hunters are so familiar with the big bucks they are pursuing, they name them. In past seasons, they hunted big bucks they nicknamed Bo Jr., Butkus, Bullwinkle, Chief, Batman, Spider-Man and Will Smith.

This story was originally published October 24, 2015 at 5:57 PM with the headline "Ned Yost follows tradition when he hunts for deer with Jeff Foxworthy."