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Post by wolf359 on May 7, 2020 18:44:59 GMT
Has anybody here ever actually either met, just seen, or talked online (in like a Live Stream, Chat Room, or a Comments Section somewhere) with a Professional Athlete (it doesn't matter if it is a BIG name athlete or not) or someone involved with Sports ?
I myself have!
I have seen the 2003 Harlem Globetrotters play.
I have seen the 2004 Anaheim Angels.
I have seen the 2004 Detroit Tigers.
I have seen the 2005 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
I have seen the 2005 Los Angeles Dodgers.
When I was in High School, I met and talked on a lot of occasions (during my last 2 years in High School) with John Carlos (He ran the Student Suspension Room at my High School, I was never in trouble. I always went to see him with another teacher just to hang out with him at lunch time or he came to my class later in the day to just hang out with us and I would always talk about Boxing with him). He is a Really Really Nice Guy!
I was able to ask a Question to Sugar Shane Mosley when he was doing a Chatroom Interview (I asked him if he was ever going to fight Felix Trinidad, Winky Wright, or Fernando Vargas and he said that he was going to wait for all of those guys to challenge him first).
I was able to ask a Question to Howard Finkel (RIP) on several occasions whenever he moderated live stream chats during WWE Pay-Per-Views.
I have also asked 2 Questions to Jessamyn Duke (She is a Former MMA Fighter and currently a Female Wrestler in NXT) on her YOUTUBE gaming channel during 1 of her Live Streams and she saw them and answered back and I even on 1 occasion posted a comment in the comments section of 1 of her videos and she replied back to it (I just said that I thought that she was Freaking Awesome and she told me that YOUTUBE doesn't have any rules when it comes to cursing in the comments section and that I should let her know how I really feel). ------------------------------------------------
What about everybody else here ?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 7, 2020 18:58:45 GMT
Curt Schilling used to post on Sons of Sam Horn but I don't think I ever talked to him.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2020 19:01:22 GMT
Yes... Loads of FGR Players.
Spoken with in person and online.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on May 7, 2020 19:10:23 GMT
I was taking a leak at this charity event when Ronda Rousey walked in and started taking one at the urinal next to mine. I was surprised because she’s about as tall as me, I thought she’d be bigger. Anyway we exchanged a few pleasantries, then she zipped up and left.
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Post by klawrencio79 on May 7, 2020 19:30:52 GMT
I'm superstar Jacob deGrom. So every one of you can answer 'yes' to this question.
EDIT: Wait, are you asking if anyone has simply seen a pro athlete, like witnessed a pro sports event live? So if I've been to a Mets game, I can say I've seen the Mets and whomever their opponents were?
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Post by NJtoTX on May 7, 2020 19:35:57 GMT
Mickey Mantle, Clete Boyer, Rod Laver
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Post by millar70 on May 7, 2020 19:52:24 GMT
I've had a few odd interactions with pro athletes, but I've been told by one of the regular inbreeds who posts here that my stories are boring, so I'm just gonna let others continue with the thrilling anecdotes that are already dominating this thread.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 7, 2020 20:22:17 GMT
Amir Johnson, Raptors, was doing a FB chat years ago. I asked/made a joke which athletes would be in his curling foursome - the local host/comedian got it, & explained.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 7, 2020 20:26:35 GMT
My profession: journalism
My starting job in that profession: sports journalism. Yeah, spoken to a few.
Nicest guy: Neale Daniher. Biggest wanker: either Wayne Gardiner or Jarryd Hayne. Biggest legend I've been around: probably Mick Doohan to international posters (cool guy), though Glenn McGrath was the one I was most star struck over. Being a country lad from Narromine, he didn't know what all the fuss was about.
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Post by wolf359 on May 7, 2020 20:57:09 GMT
I was taking a leak at this charity event when Ronda Rousey walked in and started taking one at the urinal next to mine. I was surprised because she’s about as tall as me, I thought she’d be bigger. Anyway we exchanged a few pleasantries, then she zipped up and left.
I wonder what would happen if you actually said all of that to her in person straight to her face ?
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on May 7, 2020 21:30:53 GMT
I was taking a leak at this charity event when Ronda Rousey walked in and started taking one at the urinal next to mine. I was surprised because she’s about as tall as me, I thought she’d be bigger. Anyway we exchanged a few pleasantries, then she zipped up and left.
I wonder what would happen if you actually said all of that to her in person straight to her face ?
She’d beat me to death with that baseball bat hanging between her legs. |
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Post by wolf359 on May 8, 2020 1:16:04 GMT
I wonder what would happen if you actually said all of that to her in person straight to her face ?
She’d beat me to death with that baseball bat hanging between her legs.
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Post by 尺ロㄈにモイ州凡几 on May 8, 2020 1:41:28 GMT
Met Chris Spielman, Shawn Crable, and Jimmer Fredette.
Spielman and Crable are alums of the high school I went to and I was in the media production class that was filming a thing with them to celebrate the upcoming game our school had with our arch rivals. Didn’t really say much to them. Just said what’s up when they popped in to say hi to the class.
Jimmer Fredette was playing for the Westchester Knicks and they had a game against the Canton Charge and I worked at a Subway restaurant near where the Charge play and the entire Knicks team came in to get lunch. Thought the dude looked familiar when he went to order and one of the coaches called out for him, which is the only reason I knew who he was.
Saw the 2004 Indians and almost caught a ball that Coco Crisp threw to me and my little league teammates.
Saw the 2012-2013 Cavs play. Could’ve been able to meet some of the players while I was there iirc. I think they were in the gym practicing while my class was touring the building.
Would count when I saw the Cavs play in April 2016 but I was sitting at the very top of the arena and everyone looked like fuckin ants from where I was sitting.
Saw the Browns during preseason in 2014.
And I saw the Indians in 2017.
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Post by weststigersbob on May 8, 2020 3:11:10 GMT
Maybe it’s an Australian sports thing, but Im just an average punter and have met heaps of footballers and cricketers. Definitely not as many as Hosko, but quite a few.
What I’ve never understood about this though, is when morons pester and annoy celebrities, and then get shitty when the celeb is “rude” or “annoyed”. Seriously, if I had some plonker stare at me for half an hour or 100 of them ask me repetitive asinine questions, I’d lose my shit too.
Then again, Australians are a bit different. I remember watching the then PM Malcolm Turnbull walk casually down the platform at Bondi Junction to catch the train, briefcase in one hand, phone in the other. Not a single person batted an eyelid.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 8, 2020 6:15:59 GMT
Maybe it’s an Australian sports thing, but Im just an average punter and have met heaps of footballers and cricketers. Definitely not as many as Hosko, but quite a few. What I’ve never understood about this though, is when morons pester and annoy celebrities, and then get shitty when the celeb is “rude” or “annoyed”. Seriously, if I had some plonker stare at me for half an hour or 100 of them ask me repetitive asinine questions, I’d lose my shit too. Then again, Australians are a bit different. I remember watching the then PM Malcolm Turnbull walk casually down the platform at Bondi Junction to catch the train, briefcase in one hand, phone in the other. Not a single person batted an eyelid. Funnily enough a lady from my church saw Turnbull and his advisors on a train and she couldn't work out where she knew him from and so she asked him "Excuse me, but are you someone important?" Mal replied "Some regard me as important: I'm the Prime Minister of Australia." She felt embarassed so he took a selfie with her. Favourite story about an Aussie PM was Ben Chiffley. For some reason when people asked the operator for a particular Canberra fish and chips shop they would, on occasion, instead be put through to the PM's desk. Ben would politely record the order and pass it on to the fish and chips shop meaning several people were making their take away order directly to the PM and never knew it. The take away shop also never knew who this gravel voiced bloke making all these orders was. |
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