From this post published two years ago today:
On this day in 1987, I was formally offered my first full-time job in baseball. The offer was delivered via telephone by the Assistant General Manager, who began to tell me where he could be reached over the holidays so I could give him my response. I cut him off with, “Are you kidding? I accept the offer right now.”
I was in employment limbo after having lost a job in July, 1987 and I had no idea what I was going to do next. I had been working for this team as a consultant since October of 1986 and actually gave them an ultimatum telling them that if they didn’t offer me a full-time job by the end of the year (1987) then I would no longer work for them in any capacity. Of course it was a giant bluff, but it worked. What would I have done if they had called my bluff? I guess we’ll never know.
The best part of the day was calling my marvelous mom to give her the news. After I told her I heard the phone drop and I heard her crying with joy. She was the only other person in the world who believed I could get a job in baseball and with the hometown team, no less. It is a GREAT feeling to be right when virtually the rest of the world is wrong.
Dreams can come true, but they don’t always last.
#December231987
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Disaffected Musings 
“This is the kid. Calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. Oughta be a picture of you in the dictionary under ‘Persistence’, kid.”
I remember the story of how you wrote “many” letters to get your foot in the door. I’ve told that story to a number of young people starting out.
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Thanks, Doc. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
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First I loved the Hulk’s Bud Fox reference. But if not for the events of this day in 1987, I would not be able to call you a friend of 32 years.
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Thanks, “BB.” It is a privilege to be your friend.
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