Aaron Traffas Band | aarontraffas.com » jeff monty montgomery http://www.aarontraffas.com beneath sunrise and a little bit left... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:22:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 From the ashes shall rise… http://www.aarontraffas.com/2008/lucas/from-the-ashes-shall-rise http://www.aarontraffas.com/2008/lucas/from-the-ashes-shall-rise#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:28:34 +0000 lucas http://aarontraffas.com/?p=704 Not many memories of my childhood are clear, but of the few, I can always remember Royals games broadcast on AM radio, Denny Mathews and Fred White, with producer-engineer Don Free (I don’t know how to spell his name, I just always heard it). There was no more peaceful, thank you god for making this earth feeling than to sit in the little room Katie and I shared at the north end of the trailer house, scents of hashbrowns and random dead cow cooking in the muggy bright kitchen floating in, window open, screen up, holding the antenna to the frame to get a good signal.

the royals lost alot back then. it got even worse these last few years, but this year it’s starting to look up. Still, there’s no attachment to the players like before…my imagination is dimmed by the pictures and video and sportscenter highlights (and lowlights). I remember thinking about how Bob Hamelin must be the biggest stud ever, like a left-handed GI Joe. the first time I saw a picture, I was so let down. massive 70’s wirerimmed glasses, cheeks that seemed to house pancakes, and a gut like the Babe himself. pretty comical how i pictured my heros, so perfect. it seems now that the role models i look too are quite the opposite, chronically flawed in some way or another, perfectly human.

but zach Greinke is about to put the mariners away to go 3-0 on the season. Brian Bannister won his 3rd game of the season yesterday…

I like my AM radio.

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