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Post by The X-Factor on Jan 17, 2007 14:24:13 GMT -5
Seems like a few of you personally know a few athletes so just curious as to who knows who. I personally know Al Harrington from his St. Pats HS days via my brother who played with and against him. ive also played pickup ball with him a couple of times. another is Matt Poskay all-time Hs leader in goals scored in the US for lacrosse, led UVA to two straight natl championships and then drafted by the boston cannons of the MLL. won ROY, led team in goals first rookie to ever do that for Boston. i went to hs with the kid and friends with his cousin
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Post by JDawg on Jan 17, 2007 14:33:00 GMT -5
i don't know someone, but Andrew Bynum went to high school 5 mins from my house.
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Post by garf2000 on Jan 17, 2007 15:36:44 GMT -5
our school played against joakim noah and charlie villanueva. al leiter almost bought my familys apartment a couple years back.
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Post by djmyte on Jan 17, 2007 15:38:25 GMT -5
I know myself.
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Post by The X-Factor on Jan 17, 2007 15:45:45 GMT -5
Let me guess pro-chess player or shuffleboard def
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Post by aaron2344 on Jan 17, 2007 15:46:24 GMT -5
lots of players who were drafted in the mlb, none turned out to be anything special. however, a good buddy of mine is going to get drafted in the first couple of rounds in baseball, todd frazier.
it really doesn't count, since he doesn't know me on a personal level, but every time i go to a piston game, billups always comes over and speaks with me a bit. i guess going to every piston game, he started to remember me a bit......or more likely, just comes over because my girlfriend is always with me, haha
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Post by djmyte on Jan 17, 2007 15:46:53 GMT -5
Nothing like that... just an NFL starting QB...pretty basic.
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Post by Dan on Jan 17, 2007 15:55:48 GMT -5
that billups thing is cool aaron.
I know John Starks, he use to live next to my grandparents.As I have said before.
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Post by dahkman on Jan 17, 2007 16:04:29 GMT -5
my uncle bought jose canseco's house after he went to jail a couple of years ago and lives down the block from Jeffery Hammonds and a couple of mins from Dan Marino...and Ive meet Jayson Williams plenty of times at Nets games.
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Post by Lumley316 on Jan 17, 2007 22:35:32 GMT -5
Charokee Parks I used to work where he lived in HB. Also alot of my customers are athletes mostly baseball since we are the closest store to Anahiem Stadium. My former co-worker is husband is friends with Bartolo Colon and his brother. Ive sold to Gary Sheffield, Eric Kinski by the way hot wife, Tyson Chandler, Closer from the White Sox latino guy I forgot his name, I worked with his agent. Carlos Santana also comes in once and a while.
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Post by Lumley316 on Jan 17, 2007 22:38:00 GMT -5
Also looking at the Beckman posts I do now a few players from there past teams.
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Post by garf2000 on Jan 19, 2007 14:33:58 GMT -5
my mother was dan marinos real estate agent for a time being when he was looking for an apartment in nyc last year. also, allan houston belongs to my golf course in westchester, and he's come over and spoken to me a couple times.
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Post by KruPaxson on Jan 19, 2007 14:47:09 GMT -5
John Crotty went to my high school and his parents are members at the club I work at over the summer. I might work his basketball camp this summer. Tom Wilkens another guy who went to my high school who went on to win a gold medal at the olympics. Ryan Williams went to St. John's played on the and 1 tour is over in Europe now. Played basketball with J.R Smith when he was a freshman in highschool when I was on a team in his town of Lakewood, they called me Bob Cousy. Lenny Dykstra held me during a mets press conference when I was a baby, for reasons that are still unknown to me. My cousin was a catcher for the A's and O's and for team USA. He went to highschool and was on the same USA team with Jason Varitek who is a good friend of the family still. I've met and hit a shot in Artest's face at St. John's. Other then that I've met a whole bunch of people either through my highschool or through different jobs I've had. I've known a bunch of good college basketball players that are from my highschool.
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Post by KruPaxson on Jan 19, 2007 14:52:07 GMT -5
Forgot about all the baseball players too that I've known come up from around the shore such as all of the Fraizer family and played basketball against him. Plenty of guys from my high school got drafted and a few from St. John's too. Craig Hansen still shows up to a few partys I have every once and a while.
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Post by GP on Jan 19, 2007 15:27:30 GMT -5
ive met alot of pro atheletes...cant say I really know them though from back in the day or whatever..
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Post by dahkman on Jan 19, 2007 16:34:28 GMT -5
My mom taught Ron Artest's bro...So she has meet the family and he still comes every so often to say hi...
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Post by cjmjones008 on Jan 20, 2007 18:23:45 GMT -5
I don't really know any pro athletes but... my sister used to date Scott Williamson (ROY pitcher for reds in 90s hasn't been much in last few years) and is friends with Adam Dunn. One of her good friends is getting married to Travis Hafner this summer. Nick Swisher used to play baseball with my brother and I was bat boy on the teams. A couple of other guys in the minors Nick Carter (quit baseball) and Eric Grimm (still in minors) were also on the team.
I played against OJ Mayo in basketball and I'm going to guess Billy Walker, Patrick Paterson, and the rest of the boys from Huntington WV were on the team I just don't remember if they were for sure. Quite a few guys I played soccer against will be going to the MLS soon...
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Post by Vernon on Jan 21, 2007 1:14:54 GMT -5
Don't know any professional athletes but i know WWE Wreslter Edge who's from Toronto.
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