Over in the fabulous sports complex in Hillsboro... you know, the one that Steve Stuart can only visit and occasionally dream of? With those two great facilities and all that parking? That ball park that's 500 seats bigger and millions cheaper than the scam he was running?
Well, my wife and I were over there assisting set up for the annual American Diabetes Association "Tour de Cure," where I and about 1200 others similarly motivated will be biking various courses between 10 and 100 miles tomorrow morning when one of the staff discovered he had a flat battery.
It is a Honda minivan, and the security in it does weird things when the battery goes flat. Like, you can't unlock the steering wheel or the shifter.
As we had finished up our route prep, John called and asked if I had a set of jumper cables, which I carry in the Big Red Diesel Truck that Lou Brancaccio hates so much... so we went to that location.
When my wife and I arrived, the parking situation made it impossible for me to jump the car: while we were discussing, we noticed another vehicle pull up and park, and a young man got out (His mom and, I believe, sister was with him) and we asked if HE had jumper cables, so we could set up something of an extension... and he did.
We were working on this and John noticed he had Oklahoma plates on his car. He was a very polite young man, calling us all "sir," and my wife "ma'am" and little did we know that he was Chase Stevens, OK State grad and pitching tonight in shorty-relief.
John chatted about baseball and Chase mentioned he was a Hop player and that he'd be pitching tonite, and his mom was there to watch... and even with a game coming up in a few hours, this young man had time to help out perfect strangers to get one of our vehicles started.
How cool is that?
Gee. Don't you wish that the Ballpark Scammers hadn't tried to screw us all so bad that a facility could have been built over here?
I wish Greggy had seen it, he probably would have asked for that kid's autograph.
BTW, his record as a reliever is 0 and 1, he pitched 2 innings tonite, gave up 1 hit and struck out 4.
His ERA is 2.35. How often do you run into guys that look like they're going places... and still have a sense of consideration and politeness?
Who knew?
1 comment:
I laughed when I read the Greggy part. Very polite person chase is. I hope to have a kid like him and I have to make a trip to hillsboro one day.
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