Dude
I am hella cold right now. Oh my god, I just said hella.
That's hella cool (AGH!)
I just wore a shirt and jeans and some flip flops. I could at LEAST threw on a sweatshirt. Ah, such is the life of a Californian.
I am totally getting a web cam. My friend Ryan accessed his web cam thingy whilst we were talking online and he did some funny tricks (he did one, where he was upside down and it feigned falling from the sky)...so now I totally want one. Goddamnit.
Sports news:
I suppose most of you don't care for baseball but I sort of do (I started to watch baseball in 1997 where we had Ken Caminiti and he took us to the World Series...where we were swept off of our asses by the Yankees)
Fucking Yankees.
Anyway, so the Boston Red Sox and the Yankees have a couple games to determine who will be the American League Champion guys. I not so much a fan for the Red Sox as I am a hater of the Yankees.
I actually had the privilege (priviledge? I'm totally spelling this wrong) to be in town for three World Series: 1. Padres v. Yankees 2. Mets v. Yankees 3. Diamondbacks v. Yankees...
do we see a pattern here?
of COURSE the Yankees would compete with ALL of my favorite teams.
My favorite teams are as follows:
1. Padres (I'm from San Diego and will be forever loyal. May Tony Gwynn go to heaven)
2. Mets (I lived in Queens and was heavily influenced...plus Valentine (the manager guy) is hella (AH! I did it again!) is hella funny. He gets kicked out of games a lot and he'll try to sneak back in with glasses, fake mustache and hat. You gotta love that shit)
3. Diamondbacks (Not necessarily for the Unit (the pitcher) but for Steve Finley. I think he is hella HOT. He was with the Padres for awhile and joined the Diamondbacks approximately in 1999..and I swore wherever he went, I would follow. Even though he isn't as great in the Diamondbacks as he was for the Padres...but anyway, I always had a thing for centerfielders anyway)
Runner-up team: Seattle Mariners: Suzuki Ichiro...enough said (he's RAD!)
And the only team I hate: The Yankees.
The Yankees...my hate for them in unparallel. It is almost as huge as my hate for the Oakland Raiders (fucking Raiders) or the Dallas Cowboys or even the Pittsburgh Steelers..but that's football which I will get into at a later date.
Did I mention I like to watch sports?
It sort of started when I was rather young and I was all into basketball. I was really into the Boston Celtics v. L.A. Lakers rivalry. Since then, I feel basketball is all about passing it to the one superstar team member rather than a TEAM playing (Magic Johnson ALWAYS passed the ball)...I think my interest for basketball began to dissipate with the Chicago Bulls reigned basketball.
But I digress.
Anyway, so I went to Gordon Biersch last night to watch the game with my friend Gina (She's a Yankees fan) and apparently, I was the only one rooting for Boston in the bar.
Bastards.
Anyway, I watching Andy Pettite and I said "Dude, I know that guy!" and I had no idea where I knew that guy.
Then I remembered:
I used to work at a dispatching place and I used to dispatch the Yankees their pages to their..uh..pagers. Anyway, one of the guys I talked to at length with was Andy Pettite. He was really nice. I didn't know who he was at the time (This was in 1997 when I was only into the Padres)
I have also talked to Bernie Williams (I think) and he was nice but I hate him anyway...always hitting the damn ball.
And he's too tall!
but the ONE phone call I remember explicitly is my conversation with Steinbrenner.
Me: "Is your name spelled Steinbrenner, sir?"
Him: "Why are you asking me this question?"
Me: "I just want it to be correct, sir"
(My heart is palpitating at this point. On our screen, it says DO NOT ASK STEINBRENNER HOW TO SPELL HIS NAME!!!! (like 9000 exclamation marks) and so I thought, I might as well confirm his damn name"
Him: "What is your name?"
Me: "Sharon, sir"
Him: "Sharon?"
Me: "Yes, sir?"
Him: "You doing a fantastic job. In fact, I am giving you a raise. Keep up the good work"
Of course Steinbrenner has no authority to give me raises (I think he thought he could) but regardless,
that was my phone call with Steinbrenner.
