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ROXRAN is offline Old 05-18-2005, 10:48 PM
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worked with him for nearly a year in Nashville...He has an area manager position in a retail store like me, and thought nothing of him in particular.

One day we are talking baseball in the breakroom, and he adds his two cents worth like he knows better...To that, I say something to the effect of how would you know?...and his response is that he was a major league relief pitcher for several years...

wow is the first response in my head, but with skepticism...Of course he has his card in the wallet from several years ago...and sure enough it's the Joe Boever I vaguely remember as a pitcher from the Astros in 1992...Of course, he played with several other teams as well in his baseball career.

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Thats a cool story. That name sounds vaguely familiar to me as well.
 
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I worked with a guy for a little while who was a starting pitcher prospect for the Astros in their single A club. He could throw 95, but not do much else, which I think is why he saw the writing on the wall and quit baseball to start another career. He had some good stories, though.

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the guy who cuts my hair was a catcher in the Orioles farm system.
 
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That's really a substantial major league career. 12 years of even a minimum veteran salary, plus his pension, should have him financially set for life. Really a workhorse reliever.
 
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That's really a substantial major league career. 12 years of even a minimum veteran salary, plus his pension, should have him financially set for life. Really a workhorse reliever.

Salaries
1987 Atlanta Braves $625,000
1989 Atlanta Braves $167,000
1990 Atlanta Braves $215,000
1991 Philadelphia Phillies $725,000
1992 Houston Astros $725,000
1993 Oakland Athletics $585,500
Detroit Tigers $109,000
1994 Detroit Tigers $800,000
1995 Detroit Tigers $600,000
Career (may be incomplete) $4,551,500


I would say so, certainly will alow you to have some fun with the rest of your life w/o the money worries
 
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the guy who cuts my hair was a catcher in the Orioles farm system.
A guy cuts your hair? Sick.
 
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A guy cuts your hair? Sick.
they're called barbers.
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My mom used to babysit Danny "Dr. Death" Darwin when he was a kid
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I worked with a guy for a little while who was a starting pitcher prospect for the Astros in their single A club. He could throw 95, but not do much else, which I think is why he saw the writing on the wall and quit baseball to start another career. He had some good stories, though.
...oh, and one time I saw a blimp.

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