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When I was about 7 Mickey Stanley took a huge group of neighborhood kids down to the local field at Mulick Park in Grand Rapids.  He told me good catch.  I still haven't washed the spot on my back that he patted.

I had a very good friend who was a manager at a restaurant in the 1970s and she said that Fydrich was a jerk.  Only negative thing I've ever heard about him.

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18 minutes ago, Arlington said:

When I was about 7 Mickey Stanley took a huge group of neighborhood kids down to the local field at Mulick Park in Grand Rapids.  He told me good catch.  I still haven't washed the spot on my back that he patted.

I had a very good friend who was a manager at a restaurant in the 1970s and she said that Fydrich was a jerk.  Only negative thing I've ever heard about him.

Very cool about Mickey! I have a friend who shot pool with Fidrych, said he was very friendly. I played high school basketball with Loy Vaught

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3 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Is now a good time to talk about how Matt Stairs and I dated the same woman in the same week?  

That's funny! I dated Marilyn Manson's ex-girlfriend (not in the same week) when we were in college and before Manson & the Spooky Kids hit the "big time" (for whatever that meant for those guys...).

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10 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

That's funny! I dated Marilyn Manson's ex-girlfriend (not in the same week) when we were in college and before Manson & the Spooky Kids hit the "big time" (for whatever that meant for those guys...).

In 1988 I was dating a girl and about a month in we’re flipping through a photo album. Her with her parents, her at her high school grad, her running a 5k.. next page, oh yeah, her in a bikini sitting on the lap of some dude in a jean jacket with her arms around her in a lawn chair on a beach in North Carolina at sunset. It was John Mellencamp, lol. 

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23 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

That's funny! I dated Marilyn Manson's ex-girlfriend (not in the same week) when we were in college and before Manson & the Spooky Kids hit the "big time" (for whatever that meant for those guys...).

Dita Von Teese?

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54 minutes ago, microline133 said:

When Dombrowski was GM of the Red Sox, my favorite party trick out here in New England was texting him and getting a reply....always dumbfounded people.

I didn't do it often, but he was always good about responding to e-mail quickly.  

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My High School and College girlfriend had a short term thing with Cameron Maybin around 2006/7ish.

On a side note my Mom went dated and went to prom with former Cy Young winner Bob Welch, I remember my Dad jokingly telling me that she left him to end up marrying the superior baseball player. lol

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3 hours ago, CMU97 said:

Dita Von Teese?

No I don't want to say her name.

I would say that she was a good Irish Catholic girl with a bit of a wild streak. We saw the Cult live, and then Marilyn Manson live in a dance club in Ft. Lauderdale and she yells in my ear (it was a bit loud...) "I used to date him." Matter of factly. After I picked my jaw up from the floor (he was already heavily made up and a bit androgenous as was the entire band...); but the music was exceptionally cool (at the time... and very, very, VERY hard-edged...)

Talked to him a bit. He came by... a bit weird. Must've been around 1989 or so I think... But my memory is a bit hazy.

Saw another live alternative band the following week with Karen and I don't remember the name of the band at the moment but it'll come back to me...

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One of their songs was a cover (I'll remember that too... just give me some time...) and I told him they should include it on whatever album they were going to release because it sounded terrific. I think a Rolling Stones song... but he said "Royalty fees are prohibitive... sorry!"

"Crap! But you guys really do sound awesome!!!"

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Oh...

Gene Loves Jezebel.

I remembered.

But I think it was two bands that night so now I've got to remember that other band too...

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, lordstanley said:

In 1988 I was dating a girl and about a month in we’re flipping through a photo album. Her with her parents, her at her high school grad, her running a 5k.. next page, oh yeah, her in a bikini sitting on the lap of some dude in a jean jacket with her arms around her in a lawn chair on a beach in North Carolina at sunset. It was John Mellencamp, lol. 

Haha! That's awesome!

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One last note on Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids...

I believe Trent Reznor had already gotten ahold of this band by the time I was hearing them in the local clubs. Their early sound sounded a lot like Nine Inch Nails. I was in an "Industrial Dance" phase at the time, slam-dancing and all that. I was big on Nine Inch Nails and Front 242 and Sisters of Mercy and Nitzer Ebb at the time... but I never went all in on the Manson. Went a bit too far for me.

Just a little extra commentary...

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4 hours ago, lordstanley said:

In 1988 I was dating a girl and about a month in we’re flipping through a photo album. Her with her parents, her at her high school grad, her running a 5k.. next page, oh yeah, her in a bikini sitting on the lap of some dude in a jean jacket with her arms around her in a lawn chair on a beach in North Carolina at sunset. It was John Mellencamp, lol. 

So, Diane?

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8 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I can’t remember if it was when Zoom or Nick joined the team, and a sister of one of those two logged on and innocently announced her presence and some posters wisely advised her that we were apt to say not very nice things about her brother because we tend to look upon these players as livestock which we either love or despise. 

And a players dad logged on and threatened a poster on here. Saying something like "don't make me come to Royal Oak and kick your ass."....good times...🤣🤣

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7 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

And a players dad logged on and threatened a poster on here. Saying something like "don't make me come to Royal Oak and kick your ass."....good times...🤣🤣

That was one of the greatest moments in MotownSports history.  It was Casper Wells' dad.  The poster was Zimm.  I forget the town name, but it wasn't Royal Oak.  

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Just now, Tiger337 said:

That was one of the greatest moments in MotownSports history.  It was Casper Wells' dad.  The poster was Zimm.  I forget the town name, but it wasn't Royal Oak.  

pretty sure it was Ferndale.

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2 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

pretty sure it was Ferndale.

Yup!  And the name Ferndale made it even funnier, because it sounds like a soft town (although I don't know anything about it).   

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12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Yup!  And the name Ferndale made it even funnier, because it sounds like a soft town (although I don't know anything about it).   

Yeah in Metro Detroit it is known as shall I say a gay friendly town, I lived there for a several years and I loved it but yeah that is the rep in Metro Detroit. 

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