Just an image of mine from fanfest. I got the opportunity to catch in the bullpen today, and look...

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Just an image of mine from fanfest. I got the opportunity to catch in the bullpen today, and look who I ran into. Brandon League!!

4 months ago Jonathan Brakke 26 comments 2 recs |

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My first fanshot.

So don’t be hating….

by Jonathan Brakke on Jan 29, 2012 5:31 PM PST reply actions

Haters gonna hate though

by WhyGodWhy on Jan 29, 2012 5:55 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs

Glad you had a good time.

I was kicked out this afternoon, after I asked Montero to put on my bat “Who needs Pujols when you’ve found Jesus?”

I might seriously be done with the M’s.

Marcus Trufant - proof that you can keep a job simply because of where you're from.

by MontpikeMike on Jan 29, 2012 5:56 PM PST reply actions

Oh no.

by FaceRuiner on Jan 29, 2012 6:18 PM PST via mobile up reply actions

Final nail blah blah coffin blah blah blah blah fanhood.

by Cascadian Man on Jan 29, 2012 6:53 PM PST up reply actions

Are you implying you've heard this story before?

Marcus Trufant - proof that you can keep a job simply because of where you're from.

by MontpikeMike on Jan 29, 2012 7:01 PM PST up reply actions

It strains the credibility meter to believe that a person would be ejected for FanFest for that request alone.

by Matthew on Jan 29, 2012 8:13 PM PST up reply actions

I thought the guard was joking at first.

Montero finished signing my bat and I thanked him. As I walked out the terrace club doors, I noticed the guard then put his hand on my left shoulder as if he were guiding me. I then asked “I’m really out because of that? I didn’t hit anyone, I didn’t cuss, nothing.”

He said it was a form of harassment, and with it being a family event and a Sunday no less, it wouldn’t be tollerated. Another guard and some other non-security staff then took me into a hallway and took down my name. I then asked “Why, am I being arrested now too?” And they said no that it was simply protocol for none-alcohol related incidents like this.

Marcus Trufant - proof that you can keep a job simply because of where you're from.

by MontpikeMike on Jan 29, 2012 8:17 PM PST up reply actions

Wait, you weren't joking?

Wow, that sucks man. I would be pretty mad.

by EthanN on Jan 30, 2012 12:50 AM PST up reply actions

Harassment? That's...bizarre

While that’s fucked up, my question is, did he actually sign it “Who Needs Pujols when you’ve found Jesus?”

by SuperDopaLiciousFunkStar on Jan 30, 2012 4:53 AM PST via mobile up reply actions

Who was being harassed?

Montero, because you asked him to sign something other than just his name?
The other families, because they have trouble with the name Jesus?

Bizarre is a good word for it.

by J0SER on Jan 30, 2012 10:58 AM PST up reply actions

What the hell... this is real?

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Jan 30, 2012 4:49 PM PST up reply actions

Safeco Field staff!

@Goose1701

by Goose on Jan 30, 2012 5:26 PM PST up reply actions

The team has investigated the matter and there is no record of this being true

Explain yourself, please.

by Jeff Sullivan on Jan 30, 2012 5:38 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs

I'd be writing some letters of complaints over that.

That’s absolutely ridiculous that you’d be kicked out for that. I’d be furious.

"Perhaps the worst comment I've ever seen on LL." - sanford_and_son.

by Ride the Apocalypse on Jan 29, 2012 10:00 PM PST up reply actions

I wonder what they did for LaHair puns

by Kermit. on Jan 30, 2012 5:17 AM PST up reply actions

Jay Buhner shaved their hair. All of it.

by Bearskin Rugburn on Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM PST up reply actions

Nice!

League is pretty awesome. He signed some stuff for me and my step son before a game we went to last year.

by Aussie Mariner on Jan 29, 2012 6:19 PM PST reply actions

Did he throw you the heater?

by twelveoutof10 on Jan 29, 2012 6:58 PM PST reply actions

luckily he didn't.

98 mile per hour sinker…..don’t think i could catch that

by Jonathan Brakke on Jan 29, 2012 8:06 PM PST up reply actions

But then you'd probably have been signed to catch for the Mariners

by Matthew on Jan 29, 2012 8:13 PM PST up reply actions 12 recs

I walked by the Pen once.

And in all seriousness, you and the other dude catching were showing great patience with the kids who 3-hopped the ball to you and the dudes trying to impress their girls with their 58 mph fastball that was two feet high.

There was quite the line for that.

Marcus Trufant - proof that you can keep a job simply because of where you're from.

by MontpikeMike on Jan 29, 2012 8:13 PM PST reply actions

I was more than happy to do it.

I didn’t even know they took high schoolers to help out at fanfest. But when my team coach told me that he recommended me to the Mariners, I was like sign me up! But meeting Vargas and League made it a special experience.

by Jonathan Brakke on Jan 29, 2012 9:10 PM PST up reply actions 6 recs

That's really cool. Good for you.

by wazzu93 on Jan 29, 2012 9:49 PM PST up reply actions

I tried to sign up as a 25-year old dude who has rec-league catching reps, but I was denied.

Bummer city.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 30, 2012 4:36 PM PST up reply actions

There was an article about League in our local paper last season.

The press here likes to keep tabs on all of the local athletes. Anyways, I found out that he went to a certain local high school, which I thought was pretty amusing. St. Louis is known for having good baseball teams, but it’s also got a bit of a reputation (earned or not) for being the school that parents send their kids to after they get kicked out of the more prestigious private schools.

Also, the classrooms are covered with signs instructing all students to “become St. Louis men”.

by ThirteenOfTwo on Jan 31, 2012 1:59 AM PST reply actions