2009 Cy Young winner, Tim LincecumYep, I did - in an Airbus 330. After their 2 game series ended Sunday night in Philadelphia with a 1-1 split, I flew the San Francisco Giants home on a special charter, arriving at 4:20am Monday morning. The Phillies followed us in a Delta 747-400. The Phillies' aircraft received priority handling from Air Traffic Control in the Philadelphia area. We received the good treatment in San Francisco. It was pretty cool - except for being an all nighter. When I met the Giants' manager, I asked him "How's it going?" He said, "More importantly, how're YOU doin'?" I said, "Great!". He said, "Then so am I."
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That is awesome. I love that the Giants manager responded like that.
That is too cool for words!
Sorry I missed this post - what a job! Do you get to shuttle them during the Series?
Good question, Ted. As a matter of fact, the flight attendants who have been specially selected (not political correctly, if you know what I mean) do fly around with them and are on first name basis with them. Pilots can volunteer to fly these trips when they come up, but are not specially selected. Although their lives were in my hands for 5.5 hours, I didn't even get a hat.
No hat?! Then GO Rangers!!
I really don't have a dog in this fight. I was favoring San Fran since we lived there at one time and a couple of ex-Rays are on the team, but then I shot one of the Ranger's pitchers wedding a couple years ago (he was a Washington National then and got traded this year to Texas)so I was ambivalent. But if they can't cough up a hat....
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