Sunday, April 09, 2006

Ball Boy

Do you know this wease? I do. I was a teenager, shagging balls for C-level celebs at a charity tennis tournament in Calabasas, CA. Can't really recall, but it may have even been the Steve Garvey Classic, or something like that. Anyhow, cut to the evening, when all the tennis was done, and the participants had retreated under an enormous tent for dinner and whatever else they did where I was not allowed to see. Liquid and I decided it would be cool to steal a banner, one of those big, plastic corporate sponsor messaging devices, and take it to someone's private court and put it up on their fence.

So here we're taking it down under the cover of night when we hear "Hey, what are you kids doing?" And I look over to see this bulging figure emerging from the shadows, and coming at us quickly and with purpose. Yep, it was Garvey. As a Dodger fan, he'd been a childhood hero of mine, and now he was approaching me to find out why we were trying to steal a banner from his Tennis Tournament. Probably not going to get an autograph now, but somehow we escaped, explaining that we were just trying to help take down the banners. He let us go, but later we overheard a voice on a walkie-talkie sending out an all points bulletin, to be on the lookout for two kids trying to steal banners. Garvey! Fucker.

So today there's a story in the LA Times about him, and you can read it here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

wait a second, i thought you told me we should just help take down the banners to be good samaritans? i was duped!

i can't help but think we had an influence on garvey that night. seems his life took a turn for the worse after this incident. Had he colluded with us, we could have taught him some trix that would have served him and cyndi well.

What a wease, i think he must be color blind cause i specifically remember on the radio that they were looking for two kids wearing a different color than we we wearing.

Anonymous said...

After reading that article, I had the thought that Garvey probably wanted the banner for resale value. Who does he friggin' think he is, John Security?

What's also funny is that Liquido was conveying this very same story just recently in Park City. And then the article says that Garvey also has a vacation house there. Coincidence? I think not.

Skiletsrage said...

Au Contraire, Mon Liquido - those were usually your ideas, brilliant and exhilirating, still yours...