Anyone feel like bragging?

[freescooter]

A neighbor of mine was running the local little league and needed umpires. He said they paid 20 bucks a game. I was just out of college snd waiting for my first job to start so I agreed to do it and was pretty good. I got “selected” to do the championship game. ( Actually I think I was the only one not on vacation). Well played game. 2 out in the sixth there is a runner on third who tries to score on a passed ball but the catcher made a perfect throw and the pitcher made the tag. I call the kid out. Kid’s mother runs onto the field and starts arguing. She followed me all the way to my car, then walked beside the car as I tried to drive out of the lot. Phew! Next day I stop at the local Stop & Shop to pick up a few things. The mother is shopping. She leaves her cart and starts AGAIN. We are near the meat Dept. She picks up a kielbasa and starts hitting me with it. All the while insisting her kid was safe. I grabbed the meat and didn’t hit her with it. That was my proudest moment.

 

[Samoo]

I once drank many spanish coffees at Hubers with Jerome Kersey

 

[Samoo]

After school Pickup coed tackle football game. 8th grade. 7 on 7. Everyone took a Quaalude before the game and was making out inside of the first 10 plays. my partner was the best looking girl on the opposing team.

was better than a superbowl trophy.

714

 

[August_West]

You always remember the screwups in life in much greater detail than the victories.

Definitely. I was on some very successful youth/HS hockey teams. Was a goalie. My most vivid memory 40 years later is letting in a goal on an icing. Other team iced the puck, I came out about 10 feet off and above/ crease to stop it and feed to a defenseman because I thought it was going on net. Defenseman skating back said "let it go" and I did. It went in the net. But that was my bad because it was my job to know where the goal line is regardless.

I never forget the laughter coming from the stands and the opposing bench. It still haunts me.

 

[August_West]

714

Rorer or Lemmon?

 

[Samoo]

Rorer or Lemmon?

You think I remember??????

 

[Chin Diesel]

Not trying to brag but almost busted a vein in my forehead pushing this across the finish line.

 

[Mister P]

Made to the Class M state finals and lost.

Rod Foster dropped 30 on us.

 

[UCTitleTown]

I'm a much better coach than I was a player. I've coached teams to a number of championships. I guess I make up for my athletic limitations through the success of my players.

 

[Waquoit]

4 on 4 touch football game, 1970. three of my best friends, including a Trinity offensive lineman and his girl friend, and I defeated 4 guys from Trinity's football team, including the starting middle linebacker. I threw the winning pass to Holly. The next week they played us again, and we won again. Passing game only.

My late best buddy had a good one, he had a pick off of Steve Young in HS. "How did that happen, I didn't even know you got real PT?"

"Well, Greenwich was running up the score and coach got pissed so he put me in at free safety. I had no clue so I just stood there, Steve overthrew and hit me between the numbers."

 

[storrsroars]

Intramural soccer at UConn, championship game. League was 5 on 5 plus goalies. I was goalie. Nets were not as wide as regulation, but goalies couldn't use hands. Scoreless game, but we're up 1-0 on penalty kicks, when their best player takes the last kick to tie. Goes up in corner to my right. I guess correctly and get my head in front to block, but force of ball knocked other side of my head into post. My next recollection is being several feet off the ground as teammates had picked me up and were tossing me in air to celebrate the win. Spent night in infirmary with a concussion.

On the flip side, during one of our trade shows in Chicago we were staying at the Hilton and I was asked if I wanted to play some pickup hoops with the sales and ops guys at the gym. I passed. Turns out they played against another pickup team that featured MJ. They never let me live that down.

 

[storrsroars]

Not trying to brag but almost busted a vein in my forehead pushing this across the finish line.


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When I had the coffeeshop, one time a customer left a present that was easily the size of a large pork tenderloin. I tweeted the photo, but our followers didn't see the humor in it.

 

[superjohn]

Intramural soccer at UConn, championship game. League was 5 on 5 plus goalies. I was goalie. Nets were not as wide as regulation, but goalies couldn't use hands. Scoreless game, but we're up 1-0 on penalty kicks, when their best player takes the last kick to tie. Goes up in corner to my right. I guess correctly and get my head in front to block, but force of ball knock other side of my head in post. My next recollection is being several feet off the ground has teammates has picked me up and were tossing me in air to celebrate the win. Spent night in infirmary with a concussion.

On the flip side, during one of our trade shows in Chicago we were staying at the Hilton and I was asked if I wanted to play some pickup hoops with the sales and ops guys at the gym. I passed. Turns out they played against another pickup team that featured MJ. They never let me live that down.

East Bank Club?

 

[selles]

1. Started a game for Bristol Red Sox vs the West Haven Yankees at beautiful Quigley Stadium, jk, in 77'. First pitch of game, homer to Damaso Garcia. Second pitch, double by Domingo Ramos. Third pitch, homer to Mike Heath. Fouth pitch, ball one, followed by fifth pitch that Jerry Narron hit about 400 feet over the right field fence. Five pitches, four runs and 3 homers. At least all of the guys who tattoed me made it to the big leagues.

My manager, J.K. Kennedy walks to the mound and asked me if I actually warmed up before the game. I said I did and he just turned around and walked back to the dugout. Pitched the rest of the game and we ended up winning 5 to 4.

2. Gave up a homerun to Dale Murphy that went over the light tower in left field at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket. Longest ball I have ever seen hit, it was beautiful.

You always remember the screwups in life in much greater detail than the victories.

You need your own thread, I want to hear some more stories!

 

[storrsroars]

East Bank Club?

Couldn't tell you as I didn't go and it was almost 30 years ago. But it was within easy walking distance of the Hilton.

 

[UConn Esq]

I've hit 5 hole-in-ones. Two of which were at PGA major tournament host courses (Baltusrol & Bethpage Black).

 

[ClifSpliffy]

lots of names, places, and other various and sundry meaningless stuff, but, as an average scoring baller, my fav is still the time i put up 52 in a league game, written up in the local paper. separately, i did get paid for two seasons in a meat packers league in kali while in beagle school (think of those clint eastwood bar boxing for cash situations in the central valley towns), ruff. good thing i was mostly paid to sit around and look pretty, cuz playing always hurt. always, and knocked any thoughts right out of my head to go to the phillipines for a hoops sabbatical.
folks can get ornery when u stand in the way of their livelihood.
on the losing side, pitched a no-hitter until a bottom 9th hr in a whiffle ball game. arm fell off next day, so i made a note-to-self to not pitch whiffle ball again.

 

[uconndennis]

Ripped a double off Chris Drury when he was pitching JV baseball for FFLD Prep and I was a terrible JV player for West Haven

 

[tjhusky]

Church league basketball, 5’ 8”, not quick but long arms and can defend. In late 70’s played against Rich Semo who was 2xCT all state HS player from BPT central. I played 1/2 the game. My teammate covering him was getting torched. I subbed in and decided the only way to stop Semo was to not let him get the ball. I kept between him and the ball the entire time I was in. I was a real pest and he was not happy. I kept him scoreless while I was in. (Sorry Rich if you are out there).

 

[Hoophound]

I’ve done some pretty cool things playing basketball and tennis at various levels/ages. Still, my favorite feat was hitting 6 three pointers in the last two minutes of a summer league game. We pressed and completely overwhelmed the opponent. We were down 15 with 1:50 to go. Our pg was a D1 player. He kept setting me up for open 3’s in transition and I couldn’t miss. Only finished with 28 points, but the last 18 came in one minute and fifty seconds. I was getting heckled up until then because, in a half court offense, I wasn’t getting clean looks. It was so rewarding to beat those bastards that way that the memory eclipses anything from games that really counted for something.

 

[boog204]

All-State in baseball and state champions my senior year. Still hold (I think) some of the little league records in my town.

Beat Scott Burrell (and a bunch of football players) in an early EA NHL Sega Genesis game when I was 12 or so by repeatedly running the goalie. He was pissed.

Got viciously dunked on, repeatedly, by T-More era Ajou Deng (when he was legit nasty) when UConn used one of my HS math teachers as its go-to SAT tutor.

My middle school baseball ERA was infinity. Two games pitched. Got the yips after hurting my arm as a 7th grader pitching, and walked all six guys I faced that year; all of whom scored because of wild pitches.

 

[fgbrault]

When I was pitching for our office slowpitch team I won our only game late in our season. I have s softball signed by each player to show for it. A major achievement for a person who, when he was a teenager. was almost always the last to be chosen when we chose sides for baseball and often would not be accepted without the other side throwing in an extra player. Also, I was nicknamed Speedy, because I was so slow running.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Took down Rip Hamilton in beer pong at Yale/UConn football tailgate at Yale Bowl.

 

[the Q]

Threw a rain shortened (4 inning) perfect game vs Glastonbury High sophomore year (JV).

Got called up to in pitch the next game vs East Hartford (back in the early 2000s when they were a baseball powerhouse) and got ROCKED. Those dudes were not impressed with 75 mph “heat” and a predictable curve.

dude East Hartford was so good back then.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Intramural soccer at UConn, championship game. League was 5 on 5 plus goalies. I was goalie. Nets were not as wide as regulation, but goalies couldn't use hands. Scoreless game, but we're up 1-0 on penalty kicks, when their best player takes the last kick to tie. Goes up in corner to my right. I guess correctly and get my head in front to block, but force of ball knocked other side of my head into post. My next recollection is being several feet off the ground as teammates had picked me up and were tossing me in air to celebrate the win. Spent night in infirmary with a concussion.

On the flip side, during one of our trade shows in Chicago we were staying at the Hilton and I was asked if I wanted to play some pickup hoops with the sales and ops guys at the gym. I passed. Turns out they played against another pickup team that featured MJ. They never let me live that down.

When was this? I graduated 87 and this sounds familiar...

 

[UConnRock]

Struck out 26 in a 10 inning game in my senior year of HS. Won a game in Old Yankee Stadium when the NY College All-stars played the NJ College All stars. Obviously I am not a Uconn grad. Trotted in from the bullpen, pitched a scoreless 9th and NY scored a run in the in the bottom of the inning for a win. Thankfully I did not have to face Mo Vaughn who was on the NJ team.

 

[WallStreetHusky]

Matched Earl Kelley bong hit for bong hit one Thursday night, then proceeded to take down Larry Blucher at darts at Teds. I was at the top of my game that night.

 

[storrsroars]

When was this? I graduated 87 and this sounds familiar...

'78.

Which was same year I won the 2nd Annual South Campus Poker Tourney ($100 buy in, winner take all). One of the players was later officially ranked by whatever org ranks poker playing. Took about 15 hours.

Of course, it was a bit like the baseball World Series in that only three of the 16 or so South Campus dorms were represented, but still, a good take for a college kid.

 

[Pudge]

i'm amazed at what i've recently- last 3 months discovered - I saw Pete Maravich
's last college game at LSU. Dad took me. NIT. Al McGuire bottled him up with Dean Meminger and 4 others. MSG

as for my athletic prowess .... 12 yo in Little League with 5 HRs & LB in JV. But that's a low bar.

 

[Chuck]

Beat Kearny (NJ) HS in soccer in a shutout as goalie in their own holiday tournament. We kind of celebrated, but they were collapsed on the field in tears. It was a JV tournament and their varsity team would've killed us with at least one future national team player, but it makes for a story.

Game winning hit with 2 outs to win a softball championship. My teammates mobbed the guy that scored who had reached on an error. I could've left and nobody would've noticed!

Beat a bunch of the UConn BBall team in tennis during a summer class I took for a credit (helped me graduate with the exact number of credits needed and for years I thought they were going to tell me that class shouldn't have counted). None of them were good tennis players. But it was not easy or smart to try to lob over them!