Dinner with anyone ... Top-3

I was trying to limit my list to those of the living, hence no HST, or Lincoln, or FDR, or Buck O'Neil, etc.

 

1. My paternal grandfather (he died 12 days after I was born. He never had a chance to see me. He was battling cancer.)
2. Hayden Fry (yeah, I'm a homer and I love coaching stories)
3(tie). George Plimpton (I miss him hosting "Mousterpiece Theater." The man was interesting enough to do anything.)
3(tie). David Halberstam (I would love to intellectually discuss sports and politics with him over dessert.)

My second three, for the sheer hell of it
1. Bill Clinton ("I just want to know one question, Bill. Did Monica give good _____? Was she that damn good?")
2. Bob Barker ("To hell with Snoop and Katt Williams. You are the coolest pimp on the face of the earth!!!")
3. Whitlock (for reasons already mentioned about him throughout SportsJournalists.com)

 

Much more betterer now

 

For the guys here, why wouldn't you choose at least one or two of those way-out-of-our-league celebrity girls, like Anna Kournikova or Hilary Duff or Lindsay Lohan, just to see them in person? To be able to see her legs and arms in 3-D, you see her eyes shine from up close, to touch her skin, or see her playing with her hair, or see how she eats, or hear her excuse herself to go to the bathroom, or maybe just simply checking our her rack. You know, basically, to see the humanized side of your dream girl.

 

Why ruin the fantasy?

 

She was on my list.

 

For typing with one hand, not a bad job.

 

Beauuuuuutiful.

"I just want to know one question, Bob. Did Janice and Dian offered to help your relieve your stress of doing TPIR?"

"I just want to know one question, Big Sexy. Are you going ask Ollie Gates to leave you the Gates B-B-Q franchise in his will?"

"I just want to know one question, Bill. Did you let guards get a piece of Gennifer Flowers after you tapped that ass?

 

I've dined with Barkley. On Domino's Pizza, in fact, at his alma mater.

Had breakfast with Gary Carter, Terry Kennedy and Will Clark in Houston once when all were with the Giants. That didn't suck.

Shared a table with Helen Hunt in a deli off 50th Street in New York City one morning. Not very friendly, though.

But my Top 3:
1. Bobby Jones
2. Red Smith
3. Anyone who ever played or coached in the ABA

 

1. Young Jeezy
2. My future wife
3. Tossup between Chad Billingsley and Cole Hamels

 

I'll try to write this coherently, but my eyes are welling up from the laughter at CR's choice of Young Jeezy.

Sorry CR, couldn't resist.

Anyway, living:
1. Noel Gallagher
2. Tony Blair
3. John Wooden

Not so much with the living
1. Red Auerbach
2. Alex Hamilton
3. Malcolm X

 

Barkley would have to be involved. That guy's a riot. I'd need to talk to Sylvester Stallone, b/c I've got some questions that need to be answered (WHY?!?!?!??). Walter Payton would be the third. We could all learn things from this man.