OT - Cool Story Bro
Please be gentle as this is my first topic thread. I live in Ohio and every other year one of my friends organizes a bus trip to a Cincinnati Reds game. Its all out as we have a charter bus, get a suite, etc. The game wound up being a rain delay and eventually postponed, but even so, they still had a ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the 1990 World Series Champions team. Our suite wound up being next to the suite for the team from 1990 so all of the players from the team walked past our suite and we got to shake hands with most of them and some even stopped in our suite to drink beer. Some of you will remember the Nasty Boys and they passed by as well, some of which stopped to talk to us. Long story short, I approached Barry Larkin and made it clear I was probably the only Michigan fan in the stadium and asked for his autograph and he obliged. I asked if he has spoken with Harbaugh and he said he has. Just thought it was a cool story to pass along. Go Blue.
April 25th, 2015 at 11:24 PM ^
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I lived in Dayton at the time. When the Reds won the series in a sweep over the A's, we all went down to Cincinnati to be part of the street party that was centered around the "WKRP" fountain.
April 25th, 2015 at 11:31 PM ^
April 25th, 2015 at 11:36 PM ^
Yeah outside of the 1985 Bears (the Bears are my NFL team) they were one of the more noticeable teams in terms of personality (Rob Dibble, Randy Myers, Norm Charlton). Not taking anything away from the great Detroit Pistons teams with Laimbeer, Thomas, Mahorn, but the 90s Reds team was pretty identifiable with the personas on that team.
April 25th, 2015 at 11:40 PM ^
Played on the same UM team as Larkin.
April 25th, 2015 at 11:40 PM ^
and Larkin talk about?
April 25th, 2015 at 11:44 PM ^
Didn't find out what they talked about. You could tell with Larkin's fame and security that he wasn't going to stick around and chat so I had a limited window to speak with him, basically the amount of time for him to sign the Nasty Boys bobblehead I had for him to sign.
April 25th, 2015 at 11:47 PM ^
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April 26th, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^
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I just think that you need to realize that Larkin is probably harassed or asked to 'chat" about a lot of people. At some point it has to get real old.
People need to stop thinking that famous people owe them their time because they "paid their salary". Please.
April 25th, 2015 at 11:48 PM ^
Larkin looked like he could still play today,
April 26th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
Harbaugh with the first O-Lineman that misses his block, and allows a sack.
April 25th, 2015 at 11:57 PM ^
but being a baseball fan, I do appreciate that they were World Champs and envy you for having had a chance to meet some of them. Especially Barry Larkin.
Indeed a "cool story, bro" moment!
April 26th, 2015 at 12:13 AM ^
April 26th, 2015 at 12:15 AM ^
he said something about playing for Bo and kicking the crap out of Ohio State. This was booed of course.
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Recruited by Bo to play football--was a star safety in high school. Was redshirted freshman year and then decided to play baseball only. Of course Bo wasn't thrilled about that, but I guess he did technically play a season.
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Don't wanna get into specifics on here but his account has been hacked by a baby mama. You can imagine where that went.
Crap. You mean "password" isn't a good one?
There goes my Swiss bank account.
April 26th, 2015 at 10:03 AM ^
April 26th, 2015 at 12:42 PM ^
My luggage password from 1-2-3-4-5.
It has been a long time since that amazing season and I fear it will be a lot longer until the Reds win another championship. Oh yeah, I'll end with this. Had tickets to Game 6 of the 1990 World Series that did not end up being used.
April 26th, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
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April 26th, 2015 at 11:08 AM ^
It's crazy to think of a Wolverine infield that had both Chris Sabo and Barry Larkin.
but wasn't part of that because of recruiting violations?
Hal Morris was on that team too. It was an incredible infield--probalby the best ever for M-Baseball.
the NCAA violations under Middaugh involved paying the players illegally for their jobs, but not necessarily recuriting violations.
Larkin-Sabo-Morris was indeed an incredible infield.