I met MIKE BORDICK!!!

with Mike Bordick at Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Have I ever mentioned that Mike Bordick was my favorite A’s player back in the day?

I know, I’m skipping days here, but I must tell my Mike Bordick tale while it’s still fresh in my head!

We just entered the gates and the husband asked me if I wanted an official Orioles magazine (we just bought an unofficial one because Eric Byrnes was on the cover). I replied with a why not yes and while he was buying it, I glanced over and saw a man in a number 14 Bordick jersey. And it looked like Mike Bordick! I had to ask the vendor if it was in fact Mike Bordick and he said that it was and I knew I had to say something to him. He was holding a bucket for the donations to the victims of Katrina. A Comcast camera man was standing by and when I came to drop my money, he stopped me and asked me to do it for the camera. The “money shot” as he said. So I had to wait a moment before once again approaching Mr. Mike Bordick. I couldn’t stop smiling! When the camera man said go, I tried it again and dropped my money into Bordick’s bucket.

No one else came around for a moment, so I took the opportunity to tell him that he was my favorite player when he was with the A’s. He smiled and ran a hand over his head and said something about having more hair back then. He asked what I was doing in Baltimore, “chasing the A’s shortstops?” I laughed and mentioned Byrnes too, but told him that we were visiting the area. I asked to take a picture with him (OF COURSE!) and he gladly obliged. Before I left, I introduced myself (so backwards am I, eh?) and we shook hands and he said thank you (for the donation).

I was so stoked about meeting him that I couldn’t truly take in the fact that I was walking through the beautiful and marvelous Oriole Park Camden Yards.

A wonderful time at the ballpark. I took lots of pictures! I can’t wait to share them. Later.

And yes, I caved and bought a jersey that does not say Mulder on the back. It says Tejada, which is all right, eh?