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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

International Superstar

So I am pushing drinks on a rather slow night at the World Bar last night, when a local chap matter' o factly states the obvious, "So your from Atlanta". I gave him a surprized look as it took me a second to realize that I was sporting a Bravos hat, and this guy was not actually a mind reader of sorts. As it turns out this Kiwi born and bred fellow spent some where upwards of 8 years in Hilton Head and invested a good bit of time in Hot'lanta as well. So we traded casual small talk about the peach state and the southeast in general. He called the area his home away from home. Finally we got to the back to the topic that kicked off the conversation and he asked how the Braves are doing this year. I candidly told him that they are kicking ass and taking names of course. No one can stop the almighty Bravos! He was amused and decided to continue on with the hot topic by stating, "I hear they have some new home bred phenom who is a complete bad ass!" This kid, excuse me, this international stud continues to astonish me. 21 years old and people on the other side of the planet are talking about him! Baseball doesn't even exist over here!
So I casually smiled and calmly claimed the boy as a fellow Parkview Panther. "He is one of the major reasons my home town is proud to be known as the self proclaimed City of Champions." I continued to brag about young Francouer for another minute or so spitting out a couple of his ridiculous feats as my new Kiwi compadre and I threw back a pair of Jager shots. To Jeff Francoeur, international superstar!

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