Not wild about Harry
Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster and University of Iowa grad Milo Hamilton has little good to say about the late Harry Caray in his new book.---
Recently, I keep coming back to this piece of dialogue from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"---
Larry's Muslim private investigator: "That's very funny. Muslims do have a sense of humor."
Larry: "They do?"
posted by CM @ 10:40 PM
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I probably can't get mad at anything he said. I don't know if I've ever heard anyone say Harry was a "nice guy". But he was beloved by fans.
Hey, what the hell is the deal with the Cardinals having their home opener against the Brewers? The Reds and Cubs are the next two in, but you would think you would want one of the longer-term rivals to help open a new park.
Then again, maybe the owners knew they could fill the new stadium no matter who they were playing so they saved the rivals for the let-down 2nd and 3rd series of the new park.
Oh, by the way, I heard a rumor that Pujols has a house in the subdivision across the street from me. I could be your home base if you ever got the urge to do some MVP-stalking.
Very interesting points. Your theory about the home opener is correct. The Cardinals always try to get the Brewers and Pirates in on weekends. The Cubs will sell out regardless of the night of the week.
I'm intrigued by your offer of MVP-stalking. For those of you who don't know, Dave L lives in Kansas City, where Pujols attended high school and where he (Albert, not Dave) met his wife (Albert's, not Dave's.) Your accusation of stalking reminds me of my brush with Pujols.
I was at work at the radio station in July of 2003. A guy I worked with had an outdoors show on the sports station. Let's call him "Outdoors Don." His show used to be on in St. Louis where he owned a hunting and fishing shop, and where he claimed that Pujols and former Cards catcher Eli Marrero bought crossbows from him. Because I wore my Cardinals colors at work, he was always promising me that he would deliver an autograph or two. I never really believed him, and I turned out to be right.
But one day I was talking about the previous day's game with a friend, and Don overheard. (Pujols had just been named a starter for the All-Star Game for the first time that week, and he was currently on the cover of The Sporting News.) Don told us he had Pujols' phone number. Did we want to call him?
I guess, we both said. Though, the whole thing seemed awkward and intrusive. Don said we would probably get his voice mail, but we would get a kick out of hearing Albert's accent on the phone message. So he dialed the number and handed me the phone. If I heard Albert pick up, I should hand the phone right back.
The phone rang a couple times. Then, on the other end, I hear a very deep and drowsy voice say, "Hello." I handed the phone back to Don.
"Hey, Albert," he said. "Did I wake you up, Buddy? I'm sorry." (It was about 11 o'clock Monday morning, and the Cards had played a game in LA the night before.) "Hey, it's 'Don,'" he continued, "I'm in Iowa now. You should come up this winter and do some deer hunting. You should see the size of the buck I got up here..." And so on.
Was it Pujols? It sounded like him. My guess is yes. Did we wake him up? Whoever it was, we certainly did. And it's worth noting that Albert than went 0 for his next 11.
That's my Albert Pujols story.
Where does he live exactly?
Didn't either of you guys see that movie where Robert DeNiro plays a crazed fan that stalks a professional baseball player played by Wesley Snipes?
I didn't either. But it probably contains an important lesson.
It is interesting that DeNiro's character plays a knife salesman that frequents hunting and fishing stores to sell his product.
Even more weird is that my mom owns the DVD.
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