KenWo Diaries- White Sox Encounters
by KenWo4LiFe on Feb 11, 2012 6:01 AM CST
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Over the last 25 years, I have had the opportunity to meet plenty of White Sox players. I have met these guys at fan club luncheons, SoxFest, out and about in the city or on White Sox road trips. I've met Matt Thornton and Sergio Santos at Miller's Pub, A.J. Pierzynski and Brian Anderson at Angels and Kings, Tim Raines and Craig Grebeck at The Old Barn but none of the stories compare to when my friends and I took a road trip to Milwaukee in 2001 to see the White Sox face the Brewers.
There was some funky scheduling that led up to that series. The first game took place on a Sunday. My friends and I took the 90 mile drive up on Saturday evening to party and hit up the Sunday day game. We bounced around a few bars on Water Street finally settling on one that had an outside beer garden and two levels with pool tables upstairs.
My guys and I settled in nicely, drinking a lot and shooting pool when to our surprise a large contingent of White Sox players made their way up the stairs. I was 21 at the time. This was pretty much the greatest thing to happen to me up to that point. Jon Garland, Alan Embree, Keith Foulke, James Baldwin, Coach Gary Pettis and Royce Clayton were now in the house.
Garland and Baldwin immediately challenged me and my buddy to a game of pool. The deal was we would pay them 20 bucks if we lost and we would get 200 if we won. None of us were in the right state of mind at the time because we played basically the whole game and realized that the 8 ball had already been knocked in. Nobody knew who knocked it in. So instead of the cash, we just did shots.
That is where things got interesting. Before Adam Dunn was a huge disappointment, there was Royce Clayton. Clayton was a defense first shortstop brought in because Jose Valentin had made 36 errors the year before. Kenny, in one of his first moves, decided Jose would be best suited for center field and third base and traded for the sure handed Clayton to play every day at short. (This was a flawed theory because although Valentin committed double the errors in 2000, he had much better zone ratings and a DWAR over a win higher than Clayton, but I digress.)
Clayton also was absolutely terrible with the bat to start out the year. He hit .125 in April and .104 in May, which led him into the doghouse of many of the fans of the defending AL Central Champions. He started to turn things around in June when he hit .263 for the month. In mid July, he really was starting to hit well and came up with a lot of timely hits.
I felt the need to give him a compliment. Unfortunately due to my drunken state, it started out with "when we first got you...you f**king sucked"! Upon hearing this, Clayton jumped in my face and started yelling that he plays the game to feed his family and not for the f**king fans. He was pretty heated. Gary Pettis got in between us and pulled Royce away. My buddies were sure that it was going to come to blows. I went back up to him and told him that before he got pissed, I was going to say "now I'd rather have you up in the clutch than most people". We ended up doing one of those handshake/hug type deals.
The rest of the evening was spent getting terribly wasted, watching Keith Foulke put the moves on my friends girlfriend, and mistakingly calling Alan Embree the wrong name, which he wasn't all too happy about.
My group and the Sox both stayed until close. I said bye to Clayton on the street as he was buying a hot dog from a street vendor. He asked if I wanted a dog. I said yes and walked back to our hotel eating a hot dog that was bought by Royce Clayton.
Incredible night.
Clayton ended up getting his season average over .200 just after the Brewers series, and really raked the rest of the year ending up with a .263 batting average for the season. My buddies still credit me for turning his season around.
What players or celebrities have you encountered? Was it a good or bad experience?
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Joe D
I met Joe Dimaggio a few years before he passed away. I was warned beforehand by others that he was a creep. Sure enough he had the personality of a dead duck laying in a pond. He obviously was blessed with his baseball talent. He definitely wasn’t blessed with a decent personality. I had absolutely no doubt in my mind that if would not of been a baseball player, he would of shined shoes for a living.
I had dinner with him in Arizona at spring training in '68(?), the year he was hitting coach for the A's.
My best friends, like adopted parents actually, were huge A’s fans and travelled the country seeing them and getting to know the players/coaches in the process. We were in the hotel restaurant that night and Joe asked if he could join us. I slid over in the booth, he sat down. Seemed a nice enough guy, but I admit I was too awestruck to remember much of the conversation.
I’ve got a million stories like that, but no time to post them now. I’ll try to get back here tonight.
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
John Kenneth Galbraith
that's not quite how celebrity works.
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
by MarketMaker on Feb 11, 2012 1:15 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I know someone
Who once saw Joe DiMaggio at Dinky Donuts in New York.
by VictorB on Feb 11, 2012 11:17 AM CST up reply actions 5 recs
this should lift kenwo's spirits
Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said on ESPN 1000 Radio today that while there’s a lot to like about free agent Yoenis Cespedes, the outfielder doesn’t come without some concerns. Guillen added that many teams are interested in Cespedes, implying that it’s hardly a sure thing that the Cuban defector will sign with Miami.
by onlysoxfaninboston on Feb 11, 2012 8:44 AM CST reply actions
lol
watching Keith Foulke put the moves on my friends girlfriend,
could you imagine having the conversation, “um guys, i think we have to kick keith foulke’s ass.”
DUNK HIS ASS
by obnoxious american on Feb 11, 2012 8:57 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
thatas pretty hilarious story about the game of pool
really shows where you guys all were at that part of the night.
yeah. i know exactly where they were at when stuff like that starts happening.
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
please call ADunn and say "when we first got you...you f**king sucked"!
White Sox 2012: Helplessly rebuilding?
by greenlight on Feb 11, 2012 12:22 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
Outside of autographs, the only person associated with the Sox I've ever met is Man Soo Lee.
Seemed like a genuinely nice guy. Really talkative and up-beat individual.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." -Niels Bohr
At Don & Charlie's, I overheard mark grace tell someone the grass is greener referring to being with the diamondbacks.
Many years earlier I saw greg hibbard and his family. His three year old was eating salad, my parents commented how i was 13 and wouldn’t eat salad. My dad was friends with Jose Valentin’s agent and met him several times. At the time he used a glove by a korean manufacturer named BEN and he gave me one. I used it throughout high school. It had a weird shock absorbing gel in it. Roger Smithberg, he went to my high school a decade or so before me, had a cup of coffee with the A’s, talked to me about pitching a couple times and i played long toss with him. I played high school ball with a guy named brandon hatley, his little sister went to ASU and ended up marrying Pedroia. She is rich now. He was in town a month or so ago and my brother in law talked to him at a party.
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
greg hibbard had a 3 year old that ate salad? id be nervous they'd choke on the lettuce.
did you bang pedroia’s wife? haha
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
She was five years younger
Paths never crossed
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
living downtown lends itself to a lot of encounters with athletes.
not that it’s all that cool once you’re in your 30s and half the time they’re younger than you.
as far as white sox, in the last year or so, i’ve seen omar vizquel at the navy pier imax and dominicks, had dinner at the table next to gavin floyd, phil humber and their wives at flemings (with literally no other tables occupied upstairs there), met frank thomas at dublin’s and got to talk to him for a while.
also in the last year, met greg olsen and gilbert arenas (on different occasions, though i wish they were together) at fox & obel, and sat next to rudy gay (and ridiculous entourage) while trying on shoes at nordstrom. also shared a box at a bulls game with olin kreutz. also, was told by my doorman that a couple of the blackhawks live in my building, but i’m not sure i’d recognize any of them beside kane, toews, keith and hossa.
drinking with the big hurt was the only one where i kinda felt like something really cool was happening.
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Mine are like yours, as I am 30 so they are sightings as I don't hassle anyone
When I lived at 30 E. Huron in 2008, Brian Anderson lived there and I saw him a fair amount. Just moved from the building above the Dominicks at Columbus/Illinois. Thornton, Beckham, and KW run ins there. The only thought about those guys was that KW is kind of imposing in person.
I have a buddy who manages a restaurant on Michigan Ave. that players go to a lot and he has Sox guys in there and opposing players because it is close to the Four Seasons. He says Omar Vizquel was a regular and was always accompanied by a tiny blond with huge boobs. His other was Konerko and Danks coming in for lunch one day. He said he walked by their table multiple times and overheard Konerko talking about his swing. This was not surprising.
Only drunk run in was at college in Oxford, Ohio. Was drunk at a German bar there and one of my buddies pointed out Chris Sabo was at the bar. Some of us did some shots with him and asked about his brief time with the Sox. Don’t remember much besides him saying Thomas was kind of a dick, and that Ventura was an awesome guy.
Joe D- Part 2
Just remember, Marilyn Monroe ran for her life after being married to him for only 9 months. She got tired of him cracking her around.
"Just one more hit Joe, please"?
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
John Kenneth Galbraith
I met KW
It was 2002 and I was moving from Chicago to Philadelphia. I was driving and wanting to split the drive up into two days. It just so happened that the Sox were playing in Cleveland so I decided to stay there for the night and catch the game. A few blocks from the stadium, waiting at s stoplight, I look next to me and see KW. I introduce myself and he is very polite and very nice.
I won’t recount the whole conversation as we talked for about 3 blocks. But some highlights:
- he said his only goal was to win a world series when he heard I was moving to Philadelphia, he smirked, “Philadelphia? Why? They threw batteries at me when I was in the outfield out there.”
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— he asked me if I had tickets for the game. Like a dumbass, I admitted that I already had tickets. I’m sure he could have gotten me better ones.
He’s a class act in my book.
by ParisSox on Feb 11, 2012 2:25 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Ignore the crossout
Didn’t mean to cross out the part about his only goal. Must have accidentally had that button clicked. Time for another drink.
by ParisSox on Feb 11, 2012 2:46 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
I mean,You're no Nikki Sixx, that's for sure.
by South Side Expat on Feb 11, 2012 2:52 PM CST reply actions
El Duque, and spring 05 no less
Was on a flite that had a transfer at Ohare. I was one of the last to board, so as Im standing in the aisle waiting to get back to coach, I bent down to pick something up that I dropped, and I notice this big fat NYY world series ring staring me in the face…I was just about to make some snide comment about the yankees when I noticed that his ticket was sticking out of his brief case. Thank God for that cause I didnt recognize him not in uniform and I wouldve been a real jack rockin my sox hat talkin shit to one of our own. After realizing he was a “good guy” I tell him to get one of those for us. He smiled and held his fist out to bump. Later in the flight the stewardess asked me what I wanted to drink courtesy of the gentleman in first class.
"Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches" Jim Bouton
by Grinder Rule #42 on Feb 11, 2012 3:33 PM CST reply actions
awesome. i met him too in cleveland after the sox clinched in detroit. high class guy.
we stayed at the ritz carlton… same spot as the team. that was an awesome night. a lot of the team was eating in the Mortons that was in the hotel. the whole restaurant (mostly sox fans) went crazy for Contreras when he walked out.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
I've never met a baseball player
but I’ve met a few pro football players, and you know what , most of em are boring arseholes.
yes they are
"Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches" Jim Bouton
by Grinder Rule #42 on Feb 11, 2012 3:56 PM CST up reply actions
eh, for as boring as he is,
he seems a decent guy.
wouldn’t play for any team in england but his own one, came back for his stupid bloody country when they needed him and signed up again with la to see this mls thing through the end of his career.
plenty of other players you could have picked. pele, for instance.
The guy has managed to be married to who he is, and the biggest thing to
come out of that so far over years is that she goes to sex shops and buys a few toys. Sounds like the guy is doing okay.
by South Side Expat on Feb 12, 2012 1:08 AM CST up reply actions
Posh Spice
The fifth best Spice Girl Ever!
I drank with Art Kunsyer in 2007
Lizzie McNeill’s on the river. He was enjoying a rum and coke after the Sox beat the Tigers (on a walkoff bunt by Josh Fields).
It was a great conversation. Here’s what I remember:
1- Greg Walker is a good hitting coach. It was up to the players to listen.
2- Ozzie and Kenny are demanding.
3- Tony LaRussa is a good guy.
4- AJ bitched about catching Charlie Haeger. “I was a catcher. I had no problems catching Wilbur Wood and Hoyt Wilhelm!”)
5- He was trying to fix MacDougal’s delivery.
6- choice words about Jay Marriotti.
It was quite fun.
What?! I ain't no Professor Pickles!
Sox charity golf outing 2006
Hellacious storm drove everyone into the clubhouse for hours. Ended sitting next to Billy Pierce for 3+ hours along with a couple of other old-timers (I golfed with one of them at the previous year’s event). Got Billy’s take on every AL player imaginable from his era, plus tons of risqué stories about Mantle, Maris, Billy Martin and others like that from the other guys. Very enjoyable. Pierce is a great gentleman (no surprise).
by FlyingSpaghettiMonster on Feb 11, 2012 5:02 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Billy Pierce should be in the Hall of Fame
"i'd like to see us draft an owner." Jim McMahon, 1986
"We had the 80's, and Michael had the 90's." Otis Wilson
"What did I do wrong? They won two championships in this town in 50 years. I played on one and coached the other one. I'll go somewhere and apologize, but you'll have to tell me where and who to." Mike Ditka, 2005
Joe Torre
Several times while managing Rosebud on Rush.Always a gentleman.Last time he introduced me to his wife.I was introduced to Bo Jackson when they were showing him around after he signed.Gene La Mont.Mr.Celophane.Don Baylor and Nick Leyva together with the wives.Baylor showed me his ring.Huge
.Gooden and Strawberry two smug assholes.Greg Hibbard almost punched me out,thought I was hitting on his wife.I was not.As celebrities go athletes are the least interesting.
KW at Affinia Rooftop Bar
I spent the night with my wife for our 3rd Anniversary at the Affinia off of Michigan Ave and we went up to the rooftop bar at the end of the night. First person that we see is KW with a group of about 4-5 having cocktails at the bar. We were able to shake his hand and before he left able to snap a photo with him. Did not get to talk shop or anything like that but it was good experience. Was able to tell him that our son had been to his first game that summer and that I was an ASU fan and enjoyed watching his son play for the Devils. I was really disappointed when his son cost the 49ers a Super Bowl berth.
Good thing that extraneous head on KW's shoulder cleared up.
by FlyingSpaghettiMonster on Feb 11, 2012 5:30 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Too bad it was the voice of reason.
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
If Thomas Haden Church is the voice of reason, I don't want to be reasonable.
The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.
1988, Chicago Baseball Writers Dinner, Kenny GM won Chicago ROY for '87 season.
Met him afterward and told him he helped me win the LaSalle Street Rotisserie League that year.
He asked how much I won, I told him $3K. He said “where’s my cut”?
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
John Kenneth Galbraith
did they refer to the chicago baseball writers dinner as the Diamond Dinner?
i went to a few of those as a kid at the palmer house. Met Cecil Fielder there. That was awesome.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
Yep, that was it.
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
John Kenneth Galbraith
very cool.
yah i felt bad for Kyle. i have him in my dynasty fantasy football league just because of his white sox strings.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
Not that I care, but he didn't cost the 49ers a superbowl berth
Their inability to score in the last 5 minutes of that game with ample opportunities cost them a superbowl birth.
Oh, and FT49ers.
It’s taken years of practice to be such an asshole.
by Chiburb on Jun 1, 2010 10:35 AM PDT
When I was a kid, probably about 8 years old, my parents owned a two flat in Lakeview.
We lived on the second floor and rented out the first, for a time to some girl that Mark Grace was (likely) banging. He came over one time and my sister and I got some autographs and chit-chat on our back porch. He seemed like a nice guy, but then again I was a youngster and he was using our house for carnal knowledge outside of marriage.
The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.
That'll do it.
No need to eat the hat.
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
Ryan Bukvich.
I was in a hotel elevator in Philadelphia with my dad in 2007. Ryan Bukvich got on and my dad says, “Hey, aren’t you Nick Masset?”. He courteously said that he wasn’t, to which my dad replied, “Whatever, you guys all have the same beard.”
He then offered me (13 at the time) an autograph, and ended up getting me a ball with a few signatures on it.
by mylittlewindmill on Feb 11, 2012 6:31 PM CST reply actions
the only time i met Bukvich he was stealing my parking space.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
Bill Veeck
In the ‘70s, when he owned the Sox. He was sitting in the upper deck behind the plate at Comiskey, chain-smoking and watching the game. (Closely, I might add.) Even if skyboxes had existed in those days, he’d have still preferred to watch the game outside with the fans.
I still have the ticket stub with his autograph, safely stored in a scrapbook. It would take me more than a few minutes to find the scrapbook, though, or I’d pull it out and tell you the exact date.
foxonfilm
sweet! my parents got engaged at the park
and Veeck invited them to the Bards Room. They met Roland Hemond and Veeck.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
I met Carlos Lee in 2000
at a card store near my house. My brother and I got autographs. My buddy and his parents had an extra ticket for that night’s game. He told me to “have fun, hopefully we win tonight.” That was the night Frank had the game-winning RBI 2B in the 10th, Valentin scored from 1st, great game.
"i'd like to see us draft an owner." Jim McMahon, 1986
"We had the 80's, and Michael had the 90's." Otis Wilson
"What did I do wrong? They won two championships in this town in 50 years. I played on one and coached the other one. I'll go somewhere and apologize, but you'll have to tell me where and who to." Mike Ditka, 2005
Robin Ventura
I work backstage at the Goodman Theatre and met him when he went onstage in A Christmas Carol this past December. Inspired by Jim’s piece about the “Chicago Leftovers” t-shirts he had made in the summer of ‘97, I made my own version of the shirt which he cheerfully signed for me. He was super nice to everyone in the cast and crew and on the Goodman staff. Even Cubs and non-baseball fans were impressed. Didn’t have a chance to shoot the breeze with him as he was besieged by the media the second he walked in the door. Like everyone, I have no idea how good of a manager he’ll be. But given how he handled himself that day, I sure wouldn’t mind playing for him.
cool story, I got his autograph (along with Frank and Belle) in 98 and I remember him being very respectful to the fans
One of my all-time favorite White Sox, I think he’ll do a good job as manager.
"i'd like to see us draft an owner." Jim McMahon, 1986
"We had the 80's, and Michael had the 90's." Otis Wilson
"What did I do wrong? They won two championships in this town in 50 years. I played on one and coached the other one. I'll go somewhere and apologize, but you'll have to tell me where and who to." Mike Ditka, 2005
Hibbard & Ozzie
In high school and college I was a looper, a pro-jock, you know, a caddy, at the local country club. Was in a group with Hibbard one year and Ozzie the next. There was a member who was a big fan and used to win via Sox Charities an outing. Hibbard was a nice guy, could pound the ball, got his autograph. Ozzie was in the group in front of me so I didn’t get to see him play, and he took off before I got his autograph. Biggest thing I remembered about that was how surprised I was at how small he was (is). Talk in the shack was that apparently he was also bagging some members blonde daughter at the time.
On the last day of the 2010 season,
which also happened to be the last game of Pierzynski’s last contract, I saw him at State bar watching the Bears-Giants game. After the game, my party and I were leaving at the same time as him. We were both waiting outside for a cab and he was obviously drunk, and also holding a beer bottle outside the bar. He dropped his phone and I picked it up and handed it to him, told him nice season, and good luck. He drunkenly asked me to some to Stanley’s with him. I declined and he called me a pussy and he drove off in the cab, (It was my first week on my new job)
Saw him again this past fall a couple days after hte end of the season. Him and I were on the same Southwest flight from Chicago to Orlando. I was going for a wedding and was surprised he was flying a carrier without first class.
Last but not least, was at Amoco on Clark and LaSalle by Lincoln Park and Milton Bradley pulled up during his Cubs season. He had been playing terribly. He was much shorter than I thought he would be but he was driving an Aston Martin (which was admittedly the first thing I noticed and only recognized him because I took note of the car). He bought a cd from a kid trying to sell them on the street. Then he came back to his car. I told him not to worry about the Cubs fans, that most of them were dicks anyways and to not get too down on himself. He smiled, said thanks and drove off.
by ceverettsdinosaurs on Feb 11, 2012 11:28 PM CST reply actions
Kansas City 2006
I think it was either the Grand Faloon or whatever the other place is across the street in the Plaza. We went there about an hour or so after the Sox had beaten the Royals and AJ, Brandon McCarthy and Ross Gload were all sitting in a table next to ours. We never changed after the game so my buddy was still in his AJ Pierzynski t-shirt jersey. He started talking up a hot blonde and making out with her. AJ and McCarthy got a good chuckle out of that. I think we ended up doing a shot with them, but I don’t really recall.
Also, two years later, we saw Ozzie Jr in the same place and had a three hour argument over how fans are stupid because they hated Paul Konerko while he was slumping. Good times.
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by El Duque's Raft on Feb 12, 2012 12:46 AM CST reply actions
I hated paul konerko when he was slumping.
i would have released him in 2003.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
At the time in '08
Konerko was in a similar funk, though it was mostly due to bad luck and not when he looked broken in ’03. I tried explaining BABIP to Ozzie Jr and how Konerko was due for an uptick but that went over about as well as me taking a dump on the table.
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by El Duque's Raft on Feb 12, 2012 1:02 AM CST up reply actions
eh put me in ozzie jr's camp. i was ready to dump konerko in 08 too.
haha
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
lol never cared for konerko.
it wasn’t until 2010 that we put aside our differences.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
it's funny with konerko. he's a better player the last 2 seasons in his mid-30s than he's ever been before.
and i, for one, can see it. 2-3 yrs ago it felt like every season was a coin flip for him.
but these last 2 years he’s doing things at the plate that really great hitters do. and it’s helped him avoid the slumps that have plagued his career.
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
by MarketMaker on Feb 12, 2012 11:21 AM CST up reply actions
He doesn't really get down on himself as much
I think this is why. He’s grown up and stopped acting like a spoiled bitch
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
His point was more
“You hate Paul Konerko because he’s hitting .223. You don’t know him as a person or his family and you’ve already forgotten he won a World Series here. Fans are stupid like that.”
FifthFeather.com
by El Duque's Raft on Feb 12, 2012 12:10 PM CST up reply actions
Pretty awesome how they're able to project their persecution complex onto others.
They’re nothing if not giving.
by Jim Margalus on Feb 12, 2012 1:38 PM CST up reply actions
These brushes with celebrity sure spiced up the weekend.
PLEASE, GOD, WHEN ARE PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORTING? PLEASE ACCELERATE IT OR I SHALL DIE!
Love, Whitn
We're all here because we're not all there.
by winningugly on Feb 12, 2012 6:54 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
hey screw you WU personally i enjoyed reading them you big jerk
:)
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
Use punctuation! It's not just for emoticons.
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
KenWo doesn't have time for punctuation.
He’s got children to teach.
The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.
i aint be teaching english class.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
by KenWo4LiFe on Feb 13, 2012 5:13 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
When I was maybe 12 years old
Harold Baines came whipping out of the Sox players’ lot in his Porsche, almost running over my feet and completely ignoring me as I begged for an autograph.
Flash forward to 1984 where Floyd Bannister was kind enough to sign an autograph for me as I caught him walking out of a Service Merchandise.
Flash forward another 10 years where a buddy and I, after a few cocktails and a White Sox loss, pulled up next to Joey Cora on the Stevenson Expressway, where we proceeded to flip him off and make faces at him. Very mature of us.
Ah, memories.
"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)
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