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Originally Posted by dawg_gone
Wow, that Bob Horner. I was going to remark that I was surprised (and gratified, always been a fan of his swing) to see him taken in the 4th round, but I get here and see he is tearing it up! Wow. Fascinating sim.
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A teammate of mine, but just briefly. He came to camp in 1989 with the Orioles when he came back from Japan, and he was about the funniest man I've ever met. Additionally, he drank more Corona's per hour than any human being should or could attempt, amazing.
One of my funniest, by a mile, stories, came from him.
Our first day of camp we had to 'distance run'. You basically run for an hour around the 4 fields at the Orioles complex. It was hard.
He showed up to camp late so had to do his run the next day while we were working out. He shows up, the night AFTER he had taken all of us young rookies out, and he drank from like 7 until we left at like 2 am.
He shows up in one of those OLD time sweat tops, from mizuno. It's like 90 out, 25449243% humidity in Sarasota.
Starts his run, about 15 minutes in he is on the back stretch, jogs past the fence, into the parking lot and gets in his car and drives away......
The next day he takes us all to lunch after workouts. Direct quote....
"Ya, I just went home, I was tired. In fact I went home and was so tired I climbed into bed at 6pm, still fully dressed in my workout gear... So tired I woke up at 2am, had to crap, crapped in bed, kicked it out, and went back to sleep."
I in all honesty was crying real tears laughing....