Looks like its going to be Austin Wilson

[Toga]

Feeling old. Graig Nettles turned 70 yesterday.

Puff

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Well, that was fun.

So, back to the hijack...

I go to every Old Timers Day, and around 2001-2003 Kevin Maas got invited.

It. Was. Awesome.

He was as young, or younger, than a couple of current Yankees.

It seemed like he had been out of the league for 20 years, but I guess it just felt that way because he flamed out so loudly and so much had happened since, but I digress.

In warm ups you could tell he meant business...BP display, outfield sprints, long tossing with a 'gun show'...the whole 9 yards.

Inevitably the Rocky quotes started...'he doesn't think it's a damn show, he thinks its a damn fight!!' 'Hes trying to get that eye of the tiger back!' Etc, etc...

Right on queue in the game...he ropes one off the wall and legs out a triple. Next at bat...goes yard.

Standing Ovation ensues.

We were hoping to at least throw him in a trade deadline deal...

This is one of the best stories I've ever witnessed. I didn't even need to be there.

 

[Toga]

I was thinking of Kevin Maas as I was reading through this thread. That guy was going to break records.

Where's the love for Mel Hall? Local guy. Oh, he's serving time for being a serial rapist. Never mind.

Jesse Barfield. Steve Sax. Those were some crappy Yankees teams before Boggs and O'Neil were acquired in 1993.

Effin Steve Sax couldn't make the throw from second to first without having a psychotic break.

 

[kcsu]

KCSU-
I'm a Bloomberg guy too. His fiancé was my 4th grade teacher in Liverpool during his first year with the Chiefs. We'd go to games and she would take us down to talk to him. I remember it like it was yesterday. Favorite player ever since. What's your reason?

Florange44

He gave me a ball when i was a young kid and watching the chiefs than i went to a Yankee game as a kid and he hit a homerun about three rows behind me i was hooked