So the jig is up. Tim's wife and I have been lying to him for several months. Yesterday, all was made known and I put Tim into my car and drove to Saint Louis for a Twins game. Its a long drive so we stopped to play tennis. (I'll blog that later). So long story short, Twins win!!!. Busch Stadium is a beautiful place to watch baseball so after the game we wandered around dodging ushers and Tim t00k pictures. Well, Tim being Tim, was taking lots of pictures so I was naturally wandering faster. We were walking thru the Redbird Club area of the stadium when a d00r opens and a man wheeling an overhead carry-on bag walks out in front of me. Now this guy looked an awful lot like my highsk00l English teacher. I l00ked for a pic online of him, but couldn't find it. I thot what would Steven Schwandt be doing in the press box of Busch Stadium when the Twins are in town. Then I remember that Mr. Schwandt was a dead ringer for Bert Blyleven. Now that makes sense!!! Bert has a very legitmate reason for being there. So I pick up my gait a little and (respectfully) shout, "Hey, Bert!!!" as one does. Bert turns and l00ks. I can see he is tired, its after 10pm and he has had a long hot day too. But he gives me the once over, recognizes a bedecked Twins fan ~500 miles from home, and stops to say 'Hi'. Well I don't want to keep him I just hope I can shake his hand and say something clever(<---fail). I don't want Tim to miss this so I turn to alert him. He has figured it out on his own tho and is hustling over camera bag akimbo, fingers flying on his camera, Twins jersey just discernable under all the gear. Well, at this point, Bert decides its time to shake off the beckoning hotel r00m and turn on charm. Bert shakes hands all 'round and Tim asks to take Bert's picture(duh) with me (huh??/skore!!). We thank him and exchange "how do we get out of heres", and he is joined by Dick Bremer in an elevator. Well that was last night's brush with fame. Its nice to see that some big shot (really outta be) Hall of Famers are nice guys even when there are only two people around and they really want to go back to the hotel to sleep.
