I got to meet...

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Oh my goodness..."KRAKATOA East of Lodi"!




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I Just Love any time I get to meet someone who I first interacted with on the HSBBW site, and Krak is one of the first I had the pleasure of meeting.

It seems long ago now, but we crossed paths in 07 at a showcase, and our sons were assigned to the same team.

Krak and I stood behind the backstop as his son pitched to my son behind the plate. It was just great.

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One of life's little pleasures! Kind of like when you finally have enough loose pennies to toss into the basket at the toll booth. Only seventy nine made it? Here's a few more...keep the change! "Open sesame!" C'mon Betsy...don't stall out now! There's a half mile of eager, cheery drivers behind us just drooling to toss their eighty cents to the Tollway Authority.




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Wow! I thought Krak was a myth. I mean, baaseball in Korea? No way!

Baseball is a pretty small world. It's great you two were able to meet.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a small world after all...I get it. Just get on with all of your introductions and pleasantries so I can put this down!

---SHRUG---

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I missed this post until just now when I stumbled upon it in an insomniac stupor!

It was also great to meet you and yours, mikamom! And thanks for talking me out of that hotel I'd managed to book in the worst part of Fresno!

Hope all is well with you!

I got to meet Justbaseball. Funny story... We were sitting in the airport waiting for flight to go to a week-end series @ sons college. A familiar face is sitting across from me reading the Joe Torre/Yankee book. I'm too shy to say "hey, you look familiar-who are you?"

Anyway during this time I was reading our wonderful site here and sent Justbaseball a private message asking if he was @ the airport & sure enough it was him!! He and his wife are great people and he has been so helpful to so many posters through the years while remaining humble and polite.

So while some of us "old timers" are getting bashed on another thread I think we are lucky to have such knowledgable posters on this site.

...Don Mattingly, i was just a young lad growing up in Evansville Indiana. He spent the off-seasons in his hometown and was a hometown kinda guy. Even went to a few games at his Alma Mater, Memorial High School. I'll never forget meeting him nor the time i was fortunate enough to spend with him.