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frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Interesting read. Some of it is very childish, though.

Beckett Thread

Shane

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  • fsjeterfsjeter Posts: 1,390
    juniorseau1964 should have respected the guys privacy and not posted his identity. Just my $0.02. image

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  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Agreed, but he did answer ALOT of questions. Plus, he actually opened up the can of worms. Maybe he wanted to be found out.

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  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭
    Did all those guys have him in their siglines prior to him saying he was Philip Hughes?
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I just blew dust off of by beckett acount and sent him an invite to join here.

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  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    If they say it on the Beckett Boards it must be true......
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If they say it on the Beckett Boards it must be true...... >>


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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    ive never admitted it to any of you guys, but i'm actually Ozzie Canseco.. dont tell anyone..
    ·p_A·
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was really, really scepticle until he posted a couple of pictures of himself at his computer with his username on a postcard.

    Shane

  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    he's a young dude that probably grew up collecting cards, so it shouldnt be unbelievable.. looks like everyone at beckett is riding his jock now though.. image
    ·p_A·
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Im a young guy that grew up slangin' rock and now I collect cards.....and slang rock.
    I am actually Allen Iverson AKA Jewelz on my record label
  • hardcorehockeyfanhardcorehockeyfan Posts: 573
    Notice how when people found out who he was or was not, now they want his autograph, want to know if he gets fan mail directed to the team stadium, etc, etc, etc. And I bet if he said he does not sign, everyone will chime in about him being an ingrate professional ball player.

    I went to a party some 5 years ago, that happened to have Kirk Malby there, many of you would say "who." I never bugged the man for an auto, worst thing that happened was myself running out of beer, and Kirk giving me a couple of his so my buzz can linger.

    Having to prove who you are, who really cares?
  • LWMMLWMM Posts: 471 ✭
    I read the whole thing as it happened (thought it was BS at beginning, oh well), got a trip out of all the "What do you think of (insert minor league player's name here)?" questions.

    And zef, their sig lines did change, a coincidence I'm sure.

    One of the best posts on that thread:
    sanfranfan01 wrote:
    Well I believe you. That's really cool. Im 14 and if it is you, you are one of my two favorite players (Robinson Cano)
    ryo1549(#1 David Thomas Collector) wrote:
    You always have a different favorite player...It will be someone else next week.
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  • sagardsagard Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Im a young guy that grew up slangin' rock and now I collect cards.....and slang rock.
    I am actually Allen Iverson AKA Jewelz on my record label >>



    Duh... We can all see your avatar. image
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bit,

    asked him a question. That thread is pretty entertaining. image

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  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590
    I asked too. I asked if he got outbid on cards as he makes pretty good money. He said he does. Guess he has bills like the rest of us. Imagine bidding and losing on a card of you....."but thats me !!!"
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  • bigfischebigfische Posts: 2,252 ✭✭
    I thought the guy trying to get in touch with torre was funny. If his mom was nearly engaged to his mom like he said, i think he just might remmeber her. Not to mention she should have some sort of old yankee contact info since he was obcviously the coach there at that time also. That was just a horrible attempt to make up a story to get in touch with Torre.
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    dear philip,

    paul assenmacher banged my friends sister in 1993 in the back of a 89 buick..

    can you get me in touch with hideki matsui?

    thanks in advance..
    ·p_A·
  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
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  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
    I tried talking him into vintage image

    dont think he went for it!!!

    Loth
  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963


    << <i>ive never admitted it to any of you guys, but i'm actually Ozzie Canseco.. dont tell anyone.. >>


    pa, I've always had my suspicions!

    BTW, 29 pages??? I couldn't care less who that douche on the beckett boards is.
  • BigRedMachineBigRedMachine Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭
    Wow, checked out the thread.

    Unbelievable the amount of people ready to bow to his feet just for the chance to say you talked to a #1 draft pick over the internet. Cool!!

    No wonder the guys who make it are overwhelmed by guys wanting autographs or a chance to shake their hand, just so they can name drop at their own party of five guys later that month.

    I'm shaking my head in amazement.
  • LWMMLWMM Posts: 471 ✭


    << <i>Wow, checked out the thread.

    Unbelievable the amount of people ready to bow to his feet just for the chance to say you talked to a #1 draft pick over the internet. Cool!!

    No wonder the guys who make it are overwhelmed by guys wanting autographs or a chance to shake their hand, just so they can name drop at their own party of five guys later that month.

    I'm shaking my head in amazement. >>




    Yeah, they can be like "I told Phillip Hughes where he can buy baseballs for $15!!!"
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, it is pretty cool. Its not every day a potential big leaguer chats it up on a mudane message board full of losers who collect sports cards. Sorry you fellas see different image Its nice to know a player or two have the same moronic interest we do.

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  • LWMMLWMM Posts: 471 ✭
    There is a borderline AAA-MLB guy who posts on baseball-fever.com (under "current events"), minus the deification.
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  • BigRedMachineBigRedMachine Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Actually, it is pretty cool. Its not every day a potential big leaguer chats it up on a mudane message board full of losers who collect sports cards. Sorry you fellas see different image Its nice to know a player or two have the same moronic interest we do. >>



    With all due respect soft, you fail to see my point.

    A board full of losers?? I'm hardly a loser. And Hughes and the other players?? They're not losers either. They are people, just like you and me. Some like sportscards, some like hunting, some like motorcycles, some like Carribean vacations. We all put our pants on one leg at a time.

    What's not cool is the bombardment of messages to a guy on an internet message board that makes the sender feel like they're special because they "talked" to a draft pick.

    I respect the guy. But no more so than I respect you and your posts. JMO.

    shawn
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> .

    What's not cool is the bombardment of messages to a guy on an internet message board that makes the sender feel like they're special because they "talked" to a draft pick.

    I respect the guy. But no more so than I respect you and your posts. JMO.

    shawn >>



    With the most due respect back at ya shawn ..... the loser comment was in jest.

    And why would you possibly care about guys you are ASSUMING feel special chatting with Philip Hughes? So what. Why is that not cool? Are you uptight? I understand your"he is just like me and you" angle. But in reality, that is not true. Not true at all.

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  • LWMMLWMM Posts: 471 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Actually, it is pretty cool. Its not every day a potential big leaguer chats it up on a mudane message board full of losers who collect sports cards. Sorry you fellas see different image Its nice to know a player or two have the same moronic interest we do. >>



    With all due respect soft, you fail to see my point.

    A board full of losers?? I'm hardly a loser. And Hughes and the other players?? They're not losers either. They are people, just like you and me. Some like sportscards, some like hunting, some like motorcycles, some like Carribean vacations. We all put our pants on one leg at a time.

    What's not cool is the bombardment of messages to a guy on an internet message board that makes the sender feel like they're special because they "talked" to a draft pick.

    I respect the guy. But no more so than I respect you and your posts. JMO.

    shawn >>



    I didn't get that impression---I thought he was just poking fun at a perception of card collectors.
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  • BigRedMachineBigRedMachine Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭
    Uptight Soft? I didn't think so, but maybe. image

    You're right. He's not like us in reality. I'm a contractor, you're a salesman, he's a draft pick trying to make it in the majors. Seems we're all guys who like cards though, so we're similar in one way.

    If the guy PM's you and/or wants to meet you, or talk, or trade....that would be cool.

    I was only amazed at how a thread suddenly becomes 30 pages long from every guy on earth bombarding him with questions, on the surface just to tell his buddies, "Hey guys, I talked to Phillip Hughes!!" 2 to 1 says 75 percent of the guys messaging him had never heard of him before today.

    I'm shaking my head at what a lack of privacy it must be to be in that position. He's just a prospect for the Yankees, imagine what Jeter must go through.

    If you feel cool chatting with him online, have fun with it. Who am I to say? If it is cool to say you chatted with him online, I guess I'm missing the picture. Not trying to judge you Soft, I just don't get it.

    shawn
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bottom line is ..... we spend all of this time collecting cardboard with pictures of athletes in funny uniforms on them. Alot of us have done this our entire lives. It is a obsession. So when one of those guys who wears one of those funny uniforms and appears on that cardboard happens to drop in it obviously would cause quite a stir. I also never said I FEEL COOL asking the guy a question. I said IT WAS COOL that he is there. Big difference image

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  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭


    << <i>We all put our pants on one leg at a time. >>



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  • BigRedMachineBigRedMachine Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>We all put our pants on one leg at a time. >>



    Except after my pants are on I make gold records.

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    Time for Matt to chime in with the cowbell.

    Okay Dan, it IS cool that he chimed in. But it shouldn't be surprising. I'm sure he's not the only one, and I can see why the others would want to stay incognito. By the response to the thread, I can't tell if he was drafted for the majors or is pitching in the game tonight. It seems overwhelming.

    shawn
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    Those crazy Yankees...
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I may be in the minority but I think it's awesome that he's posting. People today bish and moan how players don't socialize with fans anymore. The only time you get to exchange words with them is when you pay for an autograph.

    Well, he's doing it because he wants to and it's free of charge.

    Props to you!

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  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590


    << <i>

    << <i>ive never admitted it to any of you guys, but i'm actually Ozzie Canseco.. dont tell anyone.. >>


    pa, I've always had my suspicions!

    BTW, 29 pages??? I couldn't care less who that douche on the beckett boards is. >>



    Curious, what intellegent reason do you have for referring to him as a douche?
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  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry for the stupid question, but what is a TTM? They mention it all the time in that thread.

    Shane

  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    I believe it means through the mail

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  • LWMMLWMM Posts: 471 ✭


    << <i>Sorry for the stupid question, but what is a TTM? They mention it all the time in that thread. >>



    Through The Mail---You send a card, etc. in a letter with SASE to a player, and hope it gets signed.
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