Comments on: Will McEnaney

By: fredbeene

fredbeene — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:54:45 +0000

lol – well my third post….but now I remember what drove me to this blog a in May. I was traveling for medical informations training in WI and met this girl as i was walking out the door of my hotel room……..the hotel was filled with people taking similar trainings….i feigned interest in knowing how her class went and went to strait to the exchanging of information phase. Seemed like a good, safe strategy since it could be passed of as networking and job seeking too in case of failure. She gave me her number. But I hate calling and asked for her email……well, yes this all relates….her last name in yhoo address was McCenaney! It triggered in my head that very card above! She was from Col and I said to her, this may sound strange but are you related to will mccenaney? And yes she was! She was Will’s much younger cousin. I left it at that with her and retreated to my room to some research on one of the few Reds from the 70′s that I didnt know. I dont remember having a strat-o-matic card from him (maybe the 77 reds team i had he wasnt on)…expos??
Anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Because I was trying to do research on Will so I could later be more prepared for a potential date with the girl, I stumbled on this site!

Suffice to say, we never went out. I emailed her with no response. I care less about Will now then I ever did in the 70s : )
Give me Rawley Eastwick any day.

It’s been a sad summer for me personnaly and I have been in a major funk as I wonder where the last 10 years have gone and watched a good portion of my money that I saved so diligently, vanish in few bad months of stock trading.

I am alone in my sadness, not really wanting to hang out with anyone, not even the somewhat hot mccenany chick even if she did ask….alone on a friday, not unlike the times i was alone as a child pouring through my cardboard gods…..using my imagination to make up stories in my head about what I thought about each players card and their life. Not unlike Josh.

Had a fleeting thought that if it had worked out with that mccenany chick, i wonder if when we got to that ultimate ‘point’, would his image pop in my head and ruin it.

For whatever reason, prior to looking at his card again, the image of the winter warlock from santa clause comes to town pops into my beleagured brain.

FYI the cousin was much tanner than pale Will.

By: spudrph

spudrph — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:21:10 +0000

22. I think Hornby is a GREAT writer. Fever Pitch was the first one for me, too-bought on a whim, killing time while my much younger son played with Thomas the Tank Engine in the store’s toy section.

I loved all his other books, even Slam, too.

Rob Neyer’s Feeding the Green Monster, about a year lived near Fenway, is worth your time also.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:52:43 +0000

21. 20 : I thought about you when I read the part in Fever Pitch, near the end, when Hornby realizes a lifelong dream of moving to a place within walking distance of his team's games.

By: rangers1994

rangers1994 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:31:28 +0000

20. it’s always been my dream to own a pair of seats at the garden for everything — sports, concerts, mass unification church weddings, etc. we got partial seasons in 1991 when messier joined the rangers, which included playoff tickets. we upped those to full seasons but dropped them after the second strike because we were so furious.

now we share seasons with a group of people, but we won’t necessarily get playoff tickets — or only very few.

i really regret giving up those seats…

By: ramblin pete

ramblin pete — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:45:53 +0000

19. Wait... you mean Will McEnaney isn't Rawly Eastwick? Then who is he? And does this mean we're headed back into the Clay Kirby/Clay Carroll/Tom Carroll abyss?

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:45:42 +0000

18. I just noticed that he appears to be still holding the ball in his hand which lends more credence to Josh's observation that appears to know nothing about pitching and cares even less.

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:07:01 +0000

17. Will McEnaney will forever be linked with Rawly Eastwick in my mind. It turns out that neither of them lived up the the early promise that they showed, and they were both out of baseball much earlier than would have been expected.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:43:25 +0000

16. 12 : One of my favorite moments since I've moved to Chicago was when I was sitting with a friend at an outdoor table at a coffee shop, and a guy spotted my baseball cap (Red Sox) and gave us his pair of Cubs season's tickets for that day's game. It was good to know a season-ticket holder, even for a day. 13 : I don't know what happened to the great Boyd and Harris. I've googled that question before and come up empty, but I'm going to try again. 14 : Thanks, man. I appreciate that.

By: EricNus

EricNus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:25:16 +0000

15. *There's a stray "forget" in that last sentence. My bad.

By: EricNus

EricNus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:19:38 +0000

14. 13 You are spot on. Sometimes you can evoke more baseball without the numbers. Josh- This post brings out the 12-year old aspiring writer in me like Will McNeaney brings out your 12-year old fan in you. And my 12-year-old writer wonders if I'll ever be able to put words together this well. Thanks for this. Sometimes I forget I feel like I'm reading an infinite book here.