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05-20-2011, 01:09 PM
By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff
In case you missed it, TMZ is reporting that wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage died in a car accident today.
Back in 2005, I was assigned to cover the NLCS between the Astros and Cardinals. Two memories from that series stick out to this day:
1. Albert Pujols hit a home run in Game 5 that sent the series back to St. Louis. I've never seen a ball hit so hard. It sucked all the life out of Minute Maid Park in an instant.
2. The next day I met the Macho Man.
I was walking from my hotel in St. Louis to old Busch Stadium on Oct. 18. The teams had a workout that day before Game 6. About two blocks from the park, there was the Macho Man on the sidewalk coming my way.
He had on a red cowboy hat, big sunglasses and a Cardinals jacket. He played in the minors for the Cards and was still a big fan as it turned out.
In my job, you learn not to get too excited when encountering famous people. It's not cool to be a journalist and get all silly when Willie Mays walks by. I got on an elevator once with Muhammad Ali at the 1996 Olympics and managed not to act stupid.
But the Macho Man? I had to talk to him. I wasted thousands of hours as a kid watching wrestling and nobody was more entertaining than the Macho Man. OK, maybe George "The Animal" Steele. But Macho Man was a close second.
Thankfully, he was cool. You don't dress like that unless you want people to notice, I suppose. We talked some baseball, I asked about the lovely Elizabeth and we parted ways.
"Do your thing, brother," he said. "Ooooooh, yeah."
Stupid, right? But it was something I'll never forget.
Source: RIP, Macho Man Randy Savage - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog (http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2011/05/rip_macho_man_r.html)
That sucks. He was a good entertainer, I remember watching him as a kid.
In case you missed it, TMZ is reporting that wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage died in a car accident today.
Back in 2005, I was assigned to cover the NLCS between the Astros and Cardinals. Two memories from that series stick out to this day:
1. Albert Pujols hit a home run in Game 5 that sent the series back to St. Louis. I've never seen a ball hit so hard. It sucked all the life out of Minute Maid Park in an instant.
2. The next day I met the Macho Man.
I was walking from my hotel in St. Louis to old Busch Stadium on Oct. 18. The teams had a workout that day before Game 6. About two blocks from the park, there was the Macho Man on the sidewalk coming my way.
He had on a red cowboy hat, big sunglasses and a Cardinals jacket. He played in the minors for the Cards and was still a big fan as it turned out.
In my job, you learn not to get too excited when encountering famous people. It's not cool to be a journalist and get all silly when Willie Mays walks by. I got on an elevator once with Muhammad Ali at the 1996 Olympics and managed not to act stupid.
But the Macho Man? I had to talk to him. I wasted thousands of hours as a kid watching wrestling and nobody was more entertaining than the Macho Man. OK, maybe George "The Animal" Steele. But Macho Man was a close second.
Thankfully, he was cool. You don't dress like that unless you want people to notice, I suppose. We talked some baseball, I asked about the lovely Elizabeth and we parted ways.
"Do your thing, brother," he said. "Ooooooh, yeah."
Stupid, right? But it was something I'll never forget.
Source: RIP, Macho Man Randy Savage - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog (http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2011/05/rip_macho_man_r.html)
That sucks. He was a good entertainer, I remember watching him as a kid.