conns7901 wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
Sir isn't a race baiter.
Weird Larry stories are probably my favorite thing on this board right now and within that realm, nothing is more amusing than MLB career Larry. The stories seem to be coming much more frequently. I attribute it to the insecurity due to the unfortunate change in his life.
House of L cannot have been going for 25 years. Its an odd undertaking as I assume he is playing to tens of listeners. I understand its a current thing for all people in communications to also have a podcast because no show is sufficiently big to contain all their thoughts. They all kind of cancel each other out. Its just a large, unending circle jerk of people having each other on as experts.
I ultimately think Sir is an OK guy.
So he didn't play at HF but played club at Depaul, then was almost signed through a tryout? I love this story.
now you're just trying to play me to tell the third person view of the story from someone who doesn't have knowledge specifically of Sir but of all the situations from his youth
I won't run through the whole story again. I think Sir did start at HF and was probably decent. We are similar in age and I seem to recall HF being above average. So Sir probably was an OK high school varsity player. Obviously no college was asking him to play on scholarship. We'd hear about that if it happened, even if he turned them down (like Yale). So he went to De Paul. It's a club team and not a particularly high end one at that. I doubt they have cuts and De Paul back in those days was much more of a commuter school. The quality of baseball on their club level was below city/suburbs level of high school varsity baseball. Their top rival was Loyola U. I played summer baseball with some of those players when I was in high school and they were in college. I was by no means a star nor played for a top program and I was better than them, even being four years younger.
Regarding the Expos tryout, a few teams (royals and expos particularly) were well known for having regional tryouts for players who might have slipped through the cracks. These were open. Some may have been invited but everyone was welcome. They were scouting for people with one elite tool they might be able to mold into something. They weren't scouting your overall game. So, they'd run everyone (but pitchers). Anyone who didn't have some kind of elite time, was immediately cut, so they group was halved and halved again very quickly.
Now, Sir says he had a preferred tryout. They needed catchers for the pitchers trying out so they invited catchers so they knew they could cover their pitchers.
They might sign one out of several hundred tryouts.