I have met a lot of athletes over the years some really nice some complete d1cks. The most coolest guys that I have met would have to be Santana Moss, Troy Drayton, Andres Biedrens, Warren Sapp and Bennie Blades. Dontrelle Willis as well but Trelle has been my boy since we were little kids. Without a doubt the two biggest D Bags were Albert Haynesworth and Nick Van Exel. Anybody else meet any athletes that seem really cool or complete A-holes?

Ricky Bell (RIP)
Pat Haden
John Sciarra

I met Shaq and Derek Fisher at a hip hop club in Sac after a Kings-Lakers playoff game. This was in 2002 I think. They were very cool guys. They did not have any bodyguards or security. They bought my friend a few drinks because it was his birfday. Very cool.

Jerry Rice+++++
but
Marquez Pope and Marvin Washington ---------

tim94501;512330 said:

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I have met a lot of athletes over the years some really nice some complete d1cks. The most coolest guys that I have met would have to be Santana Moss, Troy Drayton, Andres Biedrens, Warren Sapp and Bennie Blades. Dontrelle Willis as well but Trelle has been my boy since we were little kids. Without a doubt the two biggest D Bags were Albert Haynesworth and Nick Van Exel. Anybody else meet any athletes that seem really cool or complete A-holes?

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Tim, did you go to Encinal? I played Babe Ruth and at Encinal with Trelle. Met Juan Pierre at his wedding, definitely a cool dude as he showed some of us around Miami after the wedding was over. Jimmy Rollins tops the list. He was a senior when I was a freshmen and he always helped out the younger infielders. great family too

Kenny Lofton Bought me an Energy Drink once because I didnt have any money. That was in July of 08. I was pretty stoked.

Todd Helton, Ubaldo Jimenez, Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler, Clint Barmes, Jose Mesa, Larry Walker, Clint Hurdle, and a bunch of other Rockies. Not to mention The Rockies President about 6 months before his death.

I know the Trainer for the Rockies, so I have hook ups. Its pretty fun when I can make it out to Denver.

Chuck Finlay is a freakin' great guy ( i know his daughter too) .


Met shaq once, was nice was just bleh.

Kobe was actually nice enough to take a picture of my friend with him when we met at a gas station in costa mesa once.

Met Tim Salmon also, was a freakin' awesome guy love me some T Salmon

ayetee11;512356 said:

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Tim, did you go to Encinal? I played Babe Ruth and at Encinal with Trelle. Met Juan Pierre at his wedding, definitely a cool dude as he showed some of us around Miami after the wedding was over. Jimmy Rollins tops the list. He was a senior when I was a freshmen and he always helped out the younger infielders. great family too

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I went to prep school back east then moved to LA. My cousin Brian Kindem or BK was the man at the Nail house though. I am an Alameda Boys and Girls club kid used to play hoop and strike out with trelle every day. Jimmy's brother Antwan really blew it. He was better than Jimmy.

Buster Posey is a super nice guy. Totally humble. I met him at San Jose Giants fanfest a few years back.

The nicest pro athlete I've met is former UCLA and Clipper guard Darrick Martin at a movie theatre in LA a long time ago. I was in middle school, he had given a speech at my school just a week earlier so I recognized him right away and went up to him and said hi. He was a very nice guy, he introduced me to his wife and talked to me for a few minutes about dedication and being successful.

I almost forgot Shane Mosely. He is such a solid guy. His ex wife is such a bitch I can't believe he was with her.

tim94501;512365 said:

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I went to prep school back east then moved to LA. My cousin Brian Kindem or BK was the man at the Nail house though. I am an Alameda Boys and Girls club kid used to play hoop and strike out with trelle every day. Jimmy's brother Antwan really blew it. He was better than Jimmy.

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Your cousin got there after I graduated.

You're on the money about Antwon. I tell everyone all the time that he was better. He knew he was good and let it get to him. Definately not humble, but we all played with swagger during our run.

btw...Mosley's girlfriend now is fine

I was in the Phoenix airport one night when the 76's came through. Friends and I were stupidly star struck and approached several of them. Charles Barkely and Hersey Hawkins were really good guys. Manute Bol was a total duechebag.

EDIT: when I was a kid I went to a public baseball clinic in my hometown. Bill Russell and Don Sutton from the Dodgers were there. Russell and Sutton were smiling and happy as a clam when the media were snapping photos of them with a disabled kid. Sutton in particular was an asshole about not signing an autograph for me when the media wasn't paying attention. It was a really unecessarily mean way to treat a 6 or 7 year old kid.

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Your cousin got there after I graduated.

You're on the money about Antwon. I tell everyone all the time that he was better. He knew he was good and let it get to him. Definately not humble, but we all played with swagger during our run.

btw...Mosley's girlfriend now is fine

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F*CK yea she is

Mark Rypien, Trent Dilfer, Vida Blue and Timmy Hardaway were all great guys. Reggie Jackson was the biggest ahole I have ever met period.

Coolest Cal grad - Kevin Johnson was awesome the few times I met him when he was with the Suns.

Coolest Cal athlete - Dave Barr was a good dude.

Coolest non-Cal athlete - You are going to puke, but Jim Harbaugh was very funny and charming.

Biggest jerk - Pete Rose.

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Mark Rypien, Trent Dilfer, Vida Blue and Timmy Hardaway were all great guys. Reggie Jackson was the biggest ahole I have ever met period.

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Thats hilarious that you say that because all though I have never met him he was my dad's landlord back in the day and my dad says the exact same thing about Reggie Jackson.

tim94501;512465 said:

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Thats hilarious that you say that because all though I have never met him he was my dad's landlord back in the day and my dad says the exact same thing about Reggie Jackson.

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Sat next to Reggie at Juan's Restaurant. He couldn't have been a bigger jerk!

In the early 80's I belonged to a raquetball club near the Raider's facility, got a chance to met a few of the players, all really nice guys. Reggie Kinlaw, Lindsey Mason, Jack Tatum(quiest guy I've ever met), Marv Hubbard( man did he have stories on some of the sh*t they did) and Mike Davis. Davis told me that the only player that he feared on the field was our own Chuck Muncie! Davis said that once Muncie squared his shoulders and started upfield he put the fear of God into every DB in the league. Ronnie Lott another very nice guy even if he did go to SC.

Biggest A-hole, that's easy: Reginald Martinez Jackson and there is no one else even close.

Pele

Dave Stewart is awesome, Willie McGeee met him a few times cool cat, George Foreman one of the nicest men on the planet.

Biggest a-hole , Eddie Murray when he was on the Baltimore Orioles.

Wilt Chamberlain came to a little place I worked at in Napa in his modified Bentley. Bought two grilled all-beef hot dogs with tomatoes and a little cheese on waxed paper (no bun). Nearly thirty five years later, I still remember what he ordered. He tipped too!

Later on, we had, among others, Joe Montana, Mark Eaton, Kirk McCaskill, John Robinson, Bo Schembechler, Chuck Noll, Jim Abbott, Joe Torre and Carl Weathers for clients in another St. Helena business. It surprises me to say it but John Robinson was a nice guy.

Willie Mays on an airplane when I was a kid and Willie was a superstar. The stewardess (as she was called then) brought me forward to meet Willie. What a thrill.

coolest Cal athlete would have to be Natalie Coughlin--every bit as sweet as she is pretty. Did a swim clinic with her and afterwards, she spent a good 1/2 hour hanging around with the young kids who just came by to stare at her.

non-Cal: Juan Marichal was as friendly as could be to a star-struck youngster, when I met him at my mother's place of business (wholesale appliances). He spent a good 15 minutes discussing the pennant race (it was in Sept. of '61) as well as his screwball (unhittable).

Also really liked a guy named Sam Jordan, who was light heavyweight champion of California and a top-10 contender (back in the days when such things actually mattered). He ran a bar in Butchertown, and offered to teach me some boxing moves (I wish I had taken him up on it, but I was too young to know better at the time).

Joe Montana at MacMurray Ranch in RRV. Super cool and laid back.

Jackie Charlton (England '66) at a seaside bar in Spain. Great guy. Loved to put 'em back.

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Biggest a-hole , Eddie Murray when he was on the Baltimore Orioles.

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Eddie Murray when he was a Dodger wasn't exactly peaches and cream, either!

I met Charles Barkley a few months back at the Mixing Room in the J.W. Marriott at L.A. Live. He was really nice...shook my hand and let me take a picture with him.

Oh, and I almost forgot. I also met Dirk a few years ago after a Warriors/Mavs game. I told him he should've come to Cal, and he kinda laughed and said, yeah. He signed the free Warriors shirt I got at the game.

cliff branch met him at a walmart really nice guy. Joe montana saw at santa rosa plaza mall he was cool too and tim duncan very nice seen em walking through k st mall here in sac and. ben wallace pj brown and a few other of the 07 bulls team got their autograph as they were leavin sandra dees bbq one night. Never met a asshole athlete before

Pete Sampras, right around when he was turning pro. Very nice guy, very quiet. I was shocked that he was dropping out of high school to turn pro and remember wondering internally if that was going to work out for him :rollinglaugh:

I had lunch with Joe Damaggio in San Jose, I was very impressed with his dignity and charm, he quietly exuded class. Since then I always owned a Mr. Coffee. Also met Joe Montana in Santa Rosa where his daughter was going to school.

I used to work for Gary Radnich at KRON. By far the nicest guy was Steve Young. He came in after flying back after a day game vs Carolina where he was beat up pretty badly. One of the most polite and gracious people I've ever met.

Worst: BJ Armstrong, what a cocky bastard.

Can't exactly say I met him but he did ring up my groceries once at the supermarket he owned in Santa Clara back in the 60s.

Met Willie Mays about 25 years ago. It was Willie Mays day at Candlestick and my mother took me up to meet him since he was a customer at her bank and they were sponsoring the day. We got up to the front of the line in the suite and the guard told us that was it and no one else could see him. So, we left the suite disappointed, when suddenly, while on the concourse, a door opened and out popped Willie and some other guy. He recognized my mother, exclaimed "My banker!" gave her a hug and shook my hand. As he was walking away I asked him if he was going to pinch hit that day and he responded, "Pinch hit? I can barely stand up!" He probably had had a couple of drinks, though not that we could tell.

Also met Wilt Chamberlain when I was 5. He was signing autographs at the Stanford mall in 1962. I went up to him (at about the height of his kneecap). He looked down and just laughed, then gave me his autograph.

Also, Mike Krukow. A friend of a friend knows him and I was invited to a Giants game two seasons ago, with Kruk showing us around the inner sanctum portion of the stadium and onto the field. He is so enthusiastic about the game and the Giants that it's a lot of fun hanging out with him.

The David Beckham meeting is not exactly on topic, but, it is worth sharing for the humor.

I was standing right next to him with a vip on field pass at a LA Galaxy game. I tried to discreetly whisper to my wife, "This is David Beckham." My wife looked shocked and victimized by fraud at how much he did not live up to his public persona of being the female sex god in real life. She was dumbfounded and stuttered, "That can't be David Beckham! Beckham is tall, muscular, athletic, manly.... This guy is scrawny, tiny, wimpy and short and not good looking at all!"

Very annoyed, Beckham looked over at us in scorn and pulled off his warmup. so that we could clearly see "BECKHAM" on the back of his uniform.

Meeting Kobe Bryant on the other hand was really cool. I got to thank him on behalf of a large group of orphans that he spoiled.

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I had lunch with Joe Damaggio in San Jose, I was very impressed with his dignity and charm, he quietly exuded class. Since then I always owned a Mr. Coffee. Also met Joe Montana in Santa Rosa where his daughter was going to school.

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