How to spot a Mariner from a long ways away

250 words written by dylan
Posted February 08, 2004 @ 06:24 PM
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Sorry Samantha dear, this had to be elevated from comment to post.

...it turns out that our clients named Dan and Annie Wilson are the same very married Dan and Annie Wilson of baseball playing.

So you can imagine what a spaz I looked when we were discussing furniture for their living room and he said we had to make decisions soon because they were going out of town for work. I said "Oh, what do you do?" He looked at me sideways and said "I play baseball for the Mariners, and spring training starts soon."

I explained that I'm a space cadet when it comes to sports and he said that they prefer when people don't know who he is, but you could tell his ego was a bit bruised.

Don't feel bad, because Susan's done something similar. When we were meeting with the wedding photography studio the guy who ran the business, an older and wired gentleman, drew our attention to a picture of a Latino couple on the wall. "I did their wedding! Do you know who that is?" It took me a second, but the marble dropped in the hole just as he blurted out "Edgar Martinez!" Edgar of the glorious swing, the greatest living designated hitter, breaker of millions of middle-aged female hearts when he got married.

Susan, of course, was new in town and had no idea who he was. Now, mind you, she thinks he's the cutest Mariner, even if he is 40.

Comments

  1. I, wisely, shut my mouth and went back to liasing with Abe, their 2 1/2 year old, who is -such- a cutie.

    And from now on, I think I'm just going to assume that all of our clients are rich -and- famous.

    Posted by: samantha | February 9, 2004 10:52 AM