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Major kudo's to Ryan! It's been a long road back from TJ. He deserves everything that comes his way.

Whooooo Hoooooo!!

The big lights of New York are waiting - well done Ryan

Congratulations RZ and Ryan.

Very happy for both of you.

Zink, Zink, the Missing Link...for the Yankees!

Way to go Ryan and rz!

rz...why don't you take the rest of the day off and go water skiing!

BOOYAAHHHHH!!! I don't know why, but I just said that out loud when I read this thread. Very, very good news for a great young man!!

CONGRATS to Ryan, RZ1, Ryan's lovely waterskiing sisters, and his mom who we all assume passed along the good genes to Ryan!!!

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and his mom who we all assume passed along the good genes to Ryan!!!

I know she passed the good looks genes onto Ryan - not quite sure yet which genes were received from the father - maybe the devils advocate genes

For some reason I can easily picture Ryan in a Yankees uniform!!! I might just have to become a fan of the "Evil Empire".

Congrats to RZjr and of course to rz1 (and all the rest of the rz clan)

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FLAME ON!

Congrats rz1.

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Originally posted by MN-Mom:
BOOYAAHHHHH!!! I don't know why, but I just said that out loud when I read this thread. Very, very good news for a great young man!!

CONGRATS to Ryan, RZ1, Ryan's lovely waterskiing sisters, and his mom who we all assume passed along the good genes to Ryan!!!

Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom!...how many times do you have to be told...it's BOOYAHHHH!...not BOOYAHHHHH!...you keep putting one too many H's in there.

We're going to have to move you from F Troop to H Troop until you get this right!

Woodrow,

I really like ssmom's description of her excitement at the success of "our boys" ... "jumping up and down on the couch throwing the pillows around" ... or something like that! I can just picture her!

Yeah...I can picture her too! Both of those silver six shooters going off at the same time!



I wonder how good of a shot she is at picking cicadas out the air with those six shooters. We must have 100,000 of those flying targets in our backyard alone!



...and they're really noisy!

OH NO not the Evil Empire!!!!

Congrats RZ1 and Ryan.

Way to go! Congratulations to rz1 and Ryan!
Fungo

I'm zinkin that's pretty god news. Way to go RZ and congrats to your son.

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rz--This is wonderful news! I am very happy for you!!!!! Congratulations!

Or, since this is the 40th anniversary of the "Summer of Love"--and Madison was well, Madison---GROOVY!!! Outasite!!!!!

I'm so very happy for Ryan! It's sweet to see any of our HSBBW guys make it, but even more special to see someone who's had to work against the challenge of injury/surgery! My very best!!!!

Way to go Ryan Zink,
You have to be proud rz1.
A Yankee, a Yankee. Awesome

the hard work pays off. congrats rz to you and your son. great comeback.

We are very proud to call you and yours, "mates".
Ryan, you do us proud!

A joyous day for some, and shocking for others.

OH MY GOODNESS,......ssmom is about to have a heart attack and her nachos have flipped up into the air!!!!!
What a day what a day!!!
RZ1 and son CONGRATULATIONS from the bottom of my heart!!!!
Confetti, ballooons,..and call in the band!!!

Whooop whooop,..... hot digity dog!!!
BOOOOYAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOOOO proud and happy for the ZINK family!!!!!!!

rz1
Congratulations! the best of the wishes to your son.

rz1 Congrats to your son

A long and winding road...CONGRATULATIONS to the Zinks!

(Now, about those Yankees... ).

RZ,

Please pass on congratulations and Best of luck to Ryan from Geoff and I

DArrell
BigWi

Hip hip hooray! Congrats to you and your family!

Congrats to Ryan and the rz1 family. Best of luck & so glad all the hard work and patience paid off.

An incredible comeback!

Outstanding

Great news! Congratulations, and keep moving up the food chain!

Coming back from the injury ....
Having a great year in 07....
Getting drafted.....
Getting drafted by the Yankees...Priceless

Congratulations to the Zink family and hopefully I get to see him if he inds up in the NY Penn League this summer.

Congratulations from the west-side.

Atta boy Ryan, I'l be rootin' for ya!

Thanks for all the kind words. Very few people get a chance to realize a lifelong dream and to able to watch and be part of Ryan's dream was very special. I mentioned that "dream" to him and his typical "Ryan response" was that his dream was not complete until he was made a bobble head. He left today for Chicago to tie up some loose ends, flies off to the Yankees headquarters in Tampa for his physical /signing, and then flies to Staten Island to play in the NY-Penn League.

At the same time I have had this feeling of emptiness for college players, and families of those players on this site, and all through the college ranks who were passed up in this business of professional baseball. However, I know they will either have another baseball chance, or will succeed in areas outside of professional sports. Besides talent there is a lot of luck and timing that is associated with this day.

On another note. My daughters graduate from HS tonight and they put together an invitation that I thought was cool and even touched me more than the Ryan's draft. So, if any of you are passing through Madison next weekend stop by and say Hi.

Randy,
Ryan will be @ Hudson Valley quite a few time from June 25 through July3. It's only 20 minutes away so guess who will make sure he gets there....

Congratulations on the Graduations also !!

Randy,

I'm happy for all of the webster's sons who have been drafted........but I am especially happy for Ryan......congrats to all of you for your Yankee son and for your graduating daughters!!

Gordie