Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:41 am
Dennis Brock is my name and I too think this is the coolest post of all-time. It's amazing to read about everybody, kinda feel like the timing of it is somehow healing...First I have a confession to make, foolish and perhaps a bit bitter/liquored etc etc, I was not respectful to The Last Druid, so first off an apology to The Last Druid. In fact I came on the discussion board just to see if he was still around because I hadn't seen him in any leagues and he fell off the board last year during Barnstormers.
Strat certainly never saved a life, but I must say that playing strat was my drug, my escape from reality, from a failing business and relationship that dragged on far too long. I was in many leagues with TLD and his winning intrigued me and his intelligence, so in a low place I'm sure I tried to badger him, regrettably.
Well he and many of you taught many a great lesson in here. I never played the board game but I'm fanatical about baseball and numbers. I grew up in San Francisco and points in between San Mateo, graduated San Mateo High in 80, played football & ran track. I went straight into Local #38 Plumbers & Steamfitters Union.
If you grow up in the Bay Area and just make the team that's saying something! The talent pool is ridiculous.
If you want an interesting story about sports, well that'd be about my father also Dennis Brock.
He was born in New Haven Conn, moved west at 8 to San Francisco. Just a few quick takes, he caught the first touchdown at Woodside High School, yes the same school Julian Edelman attended. Then he had to move back to SF and went to Lincoln High School, you couldn't stop him on the field, both sides of the ball. He was their star player, at 6-4 220 he received scholarships from Notre Dame, UCLA and a few others. When you're a big man it's complicated I guess. I said I'd keep it short I know, well he ended up playing for the 49ers taxi-squad in the early 60's, played with Bob Lee QB Gary Lewis RB to name a couple. Well there he is driving the water truck up around Sonoma on the new asphalt getting played on the 101 highway when his idle #84 Billy Wilson gets injured and Pops gets a call up, it's November and I'm about to change all that, I'm born that week! Pops is 20 making $ good money, plus he likes to drink and he does a bit of fighting, I good story for you all if you don't like the LA Rams is when Roman Gabriel came into town all cocky and my Dad dropped him at the front door!,true story and so many more of those kinds of stories and as I grew up I saw some 'stuff'
When your old man tells you not to put your name in the phone book (you remember those) its for good reason.
I realize now to go on is rambling so to so many of you who seem to be around 60 like me (58) and say you miss baseball the way it used to be, baseball that is, when your Dad throws you and your glove in the 67 T-Bird and you head for 'Stick' on a chilly wind filled night and onto the field runs Willie Mays, Bobby Bonds, McCovey,Tito Fuentes, Dietz, Hunt, Davenport, Jimmy Ray Hart, Lanier with Gaylord Perry on the mound, hot dog wrappers in a vortex out in right field and everybody's yelling "come on Willie!!!" well shit that was a different time, we were kids and everything was in color! you never left the house without either a glove and ball, football, basketball, never! you played in bed and threw your ball up towards the ceiling without hitting it over and over and over, oh yeah ramblin, Sorry again Last Druid and hope one day we get to play in a league together again, I thought maybe you quit because of that bump in salary they gave Torii hunter and Hank Aaron : )
ps Scoops Baseball not because of the Topps baseball cards in the 60's, rather I had a blog and I used to go to spring training and write fantasy baseball updates while in the stands for fantasy players, those magazines got written in December I wanted to offer 'live content'
Good Night Now