Rave : Winning a Silent Auction Item

[cardinalkarp]

Wow, that's awesome. I'm extremely jealous. Like TFG said, take lots of pictures and tell them all about your friends at GRB.

If I see Moz, I'm going to chew him out for not doing the GRB interview.

[Swatcat27]

Wow, that's awesome. I'm extremely jealous. Like TFG said, take lots of pictures and tell them all about your friends at GRB.

If I see Moz, I'm going to chew him out for not doing the GRB interview.

that would be cool...or better yet, ask him to give one now.

[cardinalkarp]

Well had the big day on the field on Saturday evening. It was definitely really cool being down there but not really all its cracked up to be (and definitely not worth over $1000 like they're going for on the Cards website, those people will be REALLY disappointed).

We got there about 3:30 and alot of the players were already done w/ BP (which was odd because I've gotten in the 2 hrs before gametime when the gates typically open and still catch most of BP) so it looks like they started early that day. Still got to see Pujols, Ankiel, Ludwick, Glaus and quite a few others so I wasn't disappointed

The biggest disappointment for me is that the Cards players were about as unfriendly as they come (other than Skip, he was great and talked to a bunch of fans). Not a single player came over to sign anything or just say hi to people (other than Skip, and LaRussa at the last second). The Marlins guys were MUCH better. Probably 10 or more guys came around talking to people and signing for the youngsters and getting pictures taken.

It was still a blast and really cool to be down there for the guys pregame rituals. Hung out there for a couple hours and headed back to the seats to watch a really good game on a beautiful evening.

I'll post some pics from the evening as soon as I download them to the computer.

[stldogget05]

Probably because the Marlins guys were just happy to see a real live person at a game.

[cardinalkarp]

Probably because the Marlins guys were just happy to see a real live person at a game.

Good point.

[docellis]

The Marlins guys were MUCH better. Probably 10 or more guys came around talking to people and signing for the youngsters and getting pictures taken.

I bet they were so jacked up to see real fans that they were besides themselves with joy.

[Popeye_Card]

Probably because the Marlins guys were just happy to see a real live person at a game.

Maybe that game the other day was really a VIP event down in Miami?

[Hungary Jack]

Mrs. Jack and I attended a fund raiser for Urban Gateways in Chicago several years ago. We had just gotten hitched and bought a house in Chicago. We were up to our ears in debt.

We did the silent auction thing. I won an official NFL football autographed by the 1998 Bears, a terrible team that went 4-12, along with a dinner for two at Iron Mike's in Chicago, for $50.

The retired couple next to us at dinner, who were very well off, won the $5,000 lottery prize for $100.

Man, that hurt.

[tothebeach08]

It's funny how our minds think. We use the word "won" when actually we paid for the item and just happened to be the last bid. I do this all the time. I "won" an autographed Tyler Johnson Kirkwood hat. Of course, the following week his arm fell off so that didn't go so well.

[Popeye_Card]

Mrs. Jack and I attended a fund raiser for Urban Gateways in Chicago several years ago. We had just gotten hitched and bought a house in Chicago. We were up to our ears in debt.

We did the silent auction thing. I won an official NFL football autographed by the 1998 Bears, a terrible team that went 4-12, along with a dinner for two at Iron Mike's in Chicago, for $50.

The retired couple next to us at dinner, who were very well off, won the $5,000 lottery prize for $100.

Man, that hurt.

Look on the bright side. You have the autographed football from the team that was bad enough to get a high enough draft pick to take the immortal Cade McNown. Isn't that exciting?