In and From Vancouver
Thursday morning early (like from 12 am to 1 am), I put in an hour on the stationery bike and repeated the effort Friday evening (from 8 to 9 pm) before catching a cab to the airport. So I wasn't completely dormant during the week, as I have in the past!
While waiting at the gate to catch my Continental Airlines flight home from Vancouver last night, I saw this guy wearing a Callaway golf hat and shorts.
He looked familiar. Why couldn't I place him?
I thought to myself, "That sure looks like John Kruk!" Kruk, now 45 and originally from Charleston, West Virginia, spent 10 seasons in the big leagues with San Diego, Philadelphia and one final season with the Chicago White Sox. However, the "Krukker" made a name for himself though with the Phillies and is now a baseball analyst for ESPN.
Kruk was forced to retire because of bad knees and that was evident as he made his way down the jetway to the plane. I'm not sure "brisk walking" is in his vocabulary these days.
I finally had recognized him before we boarded and told him that I didn't recognize him without the suit that he wears on the TV set. It makes him look about 350 pounds. He's very muscular, but isn't as big as TV makes him appear.
He said he was flying back home, through Houston, to Philadelphia. I ended up sitting next to him in first class, but it was late, everybody was tired and slept and I didn't say anything else to him. I sensed that he was one of those guys that was more comfortable of not being bothered. Not so much as to the fact that he was rude, but more that it was just his nature.
While waiting at the gate to catch my Continental Airlines flight home from Vancouver last night, I saw this guy wearing a Callaway golf hat and shorts.
He looked familiar. Why couldn't I place him?
I thought to myself, "That sure looks like John Kruk!" Kruk, now 45 and originally from Charleston, West Virginia, spent 10 seasons in the big leagues with San Diego, Philadelphia and one final season with the Chicago White Sox. However, the "Krukker" made a name for himself though with the Phillies and is now a baseball analyst for ESPN.
Kruk was forced to retire because of bad knees and that was evident as he made his way down the jetway to the plane. I'm not sure "brisk walking" is in his vocabulary these days.
I finally had recognized him before we boarded and told him that I didn't recognize him without the suit that he wears on the TV set. It makes him look about 350 pounds. He's very muscular, but isn't as big as TV makes him appear.
He said he was flying back home, through Houston, to Philadelphia. I ended up sitting next to him in first class, but it was late, everybody was tired and slept and I didn't say anything else to him. I sensed that he was one of those guys that was more comfortable of not being bothered. Not so much as to the fact that he was rude, but more that it was just his nature.
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