Friday, March 10, 2006

Kareem in the house

This just happened, so maybe I'm more excited than I should be.

Working through lunch about an hour ago, rumors started to circulate through my office that Kareem Abdul Jabbar was in our conference room. My company is involved in sports marketing so it wasn't completely implausible, but seriously? Kareem?

Several of us debated whether it would be appropriate to ask for an autograph, if he is indeed here. We decided not to do that.

I ran down to get a sandwich and on the way back up, I'm downstairs waiting for the elevator, standing next to some other random dude. The elevator doors open and I make eye contact wiht a woman who's maybe 5-5, then notice that her head only goes halfway up the chest of the man she's standing next to. It's Kareem, of course. It's weird to see someone that tall in person, he's a giant. Even if he wasn't a celebrity, he would draw looks just because of his height. Yet somehow, the man standing next to me walked past Kareem into the elevator without batting an eye. That's life in the city.

In other news, one minor league baseball team may have just invented the perfect burger. Read about it here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2362369

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