Comments on: Leo Cardenas

By: shealives

shealives — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:30:19 +0000

caminante0: Pete Varney once drove two hours to watch me play in high school when he was a college coach and he was recruiting me.

By: caminante0

caminante0 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:21:39 +0000

That is a great Baseball Reference link above. I found out I share a birthday with Ken Griffey, Bob Watson and the immortal Pete Varney. And then reading the other comments, I see I share a birthday with “Brent is a dodger fan” as well! My six year old daughter shares a birthday with Victor Martinez. Hope I can use that to spur her interest in baseball this year!

By: ramblin pete

ramblin pete — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:39:24 +0000

17. _13: wow, Bob Davis... As for Berube, I fondly remember when he played for Washington and was paired with Dale (Mork from Ork) Hunter and Craig (Screaming Buffalo) Simon to form the most violent, aboriginal line in professional hockey.

By: walbers

walbers — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:03:24 +0000

16. i once worked with Terry Humphries, erstwhile former catcher for the Angels. Nice guy, a sporting goods sales rep, was tall and lean and sported one of those baseball card moustaches you see on cards from the 70's and 80's. i'm in the shoe business and used to get shoes made for a lot of ballplayers. Eddie Murray was very quiet and an imposing presence. Dave Winfield was huge, fairly nice but somewhat arrogant. Sat on a spring training locker room bench one afternoon and listened to Otis Nixon bitch for 30 minutes how his brother doesn't get enough playing time or free shoes..LOL rgds, will

By: Brent is a Dodger Fan

Brent is a Dodger Fan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:55:18 +0000

15. 10 ,11 I'm going to have to not be a fan-boy when I eventually meet him, even knowing that he's not uber-famous. 13 Cool! I just found out that Andre Ethier shares my birthday. Previously, it seemed like it was just Lee Lacy, but that site reminds me that Ken Griffey (senior) does too!

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:42:31 +0000

14. 12 : Thanks for the wise words, Basilisc. I think it was Jon Hendricks, the jazz singer, who said "It wouldn't be jazz without the mistakes." And the zen master Dogen defined zen (and life) as "one continuous mistake." It's hard to think of stupid screwups both large and small in this light while in the midst of them, though. But I guess the point is to keep trying to play that music.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:30:45 +0000

13. 8 : Thanks for that eloquent riff, Pete.

Baseball reference has a way to search for baseball players born on one’s birthday:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.shtml

I checked mine and saw the one I knew about (Bob Davis), plus many other similarly forgettable types.

By: Basilisc

Basilisc — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:25:37 +0000

12. Josh, I know what it’s like. I used to be brutal to myself over stupid mistakes – losing things, overpaying for things, saying dumb things. No physical self-damage, except maybe powerful teeth-grinding, but a lot of mental self-loathing and self-excoriation. As you apparently realized (and it took me some therapy to realize) it’s nothing to do with the actual mistake, and everything to do with other issues and other frustrations. And the only way to get past that – to the point where you say “Man, I shouldn’t have left my keys in that motel room!” and forget about it – is to realize that, fundamentally, everything that matters in your life is pretty much OK. Which, trust me, you’ll get to sooner or later. You’re a talented writer with a unique voice and interesting things to say. Just hang in there.

By: Ken Arneson

Ken Arneson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:45:06 +0000

11. 10 I, too, have worked with NFL players (three of 'em), but no MLB players, either. Weird how that works.

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:45:51 +0000

10. I never worked for a company that employed a former MLer. One of my former companies had some exNFLers. Rather than go through the whole list, I will mention that Sammy Baugh and Danny Ainge share my birthday.