CLRyan5's Success Thread

[clryan5]

Saturday 1 of my triplet sisters got married. Since then I have been to 2 Lumberkings games (Mariners Low A team in my town) on Sunday and Monday. They played the Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels Low A Affiliate). 2 of the Angels top prospects play for the Kernels-Kaleb Cowart & Austin Wood. Both were extremely nice guys!! I got Kaleb Cowart on 5 8x10s, my team sheet, and an Angels hat before each of the 2 games. I got Austin Wood on an 8x10 and a baseball. Unfortunately he didn't sweetspot it, but I was too shy to ask him too. O well. I also tried a different generic ball that felt a little closer to what the ROMLBs feel like but he had a hard time signing it with the pen not working well so I won't be using those balls again. I have also become hooked on taking my own pictures to print as 8x10s and get signed. Here are the pictures of what I got.

Kaleb Cowart:
5/5 8x10s, 1/1 Angels hat, had this hat leftover from trying to get it signed in Minneapolis. Couldn't get it signed with the Angels here twice. Shows how the Angels are signing, or lack theerof, this year. He inscribed all of his autographs with Phil 4:13 which is "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Is it just me or are a lot of the younger athletes these days inscribing Bible verses?
Also got him on team sheet


Austin Wood:
1/1 on 8x10, 1/1 on baseball, also got on team sheet


Cedar Rapids Kernels Team Sheet, still working on a list of everyone that signed


On Sunday and Monday I was also able to graph the hometown Lumberkings after the Kernels. Sunday I brought an 8x10 for Jabari Blash since he is 1 of the Mariners Top 20 prospects and an 8x10 for Guillermo Pimentel as well, but I was an idiot and printed a picture of the other Guillermo Pimentel with the Rangers. He told me this in very broken English. I also made more progress on my team ball. I also got a picture with 1B Dan Paolini because I like the way he plays, I also got my ticket signed by him. Then during the game I got a team set. On Monday I worked on getting that signed, along with my team ball. Here are the pictures.
Dan Paolini #5, Dillon Hazlett #13, Mike Dowd #29, Jharmidy de Jesus #36
Tommy Cruz #3, Steve Baron #8, Tim Griffin #27
Joshua Corrales #10, Ji Man Choi #48, Brett Shankin #30
Jabari Blash, David Colvin #28, Ramon Morla #22
Jeremy Dobbs #39
Jabari Blash
Dan Paolini
Team Set Cards (R to L): Top Row: Steve Baron, Trevor Miller, Jabari Blash Middle Row: Dillon Hazlett, Mike Dowd, Guillermo Pimentel Bottom Row: Coach Tommy Cruz, Tim Griffin, Ambioris Hidalgo
R to L: Top: Jamal Austin, Jharmidy de Jesus, Ramon Morla Middle Row: Kyle Hunter, Dan Paolini Bottom Row: Anthony Phillips, Andrew Lorraine Pitching Coach
With Angels top prospect Kaleb Cowart
With Lumberkings 1B Dan Paolini
With Lumberkings 2B Dillon Hazlett
TTM:
Darren Sharper
Pat Neshek Allen & Ginter
Sent random card, got this card again
Bobby Doerr with HOF inscription

[Riggs]

Nice returns.. Like the Sharper alot. what address did you send that to & what was the wait time? Like the Kernals stuff also. There only a 45 minute trek up the road for me. Awesome returns.

[clryan5]

Nice returns.. Like the Sharper alot. what address did you send that to & what was the wait time? Like the Kernals stuff also. There only a 45 minute trek up the road for me. Awesome returns.

sent to his home address and I think it was around 3 weeks. And that's awesome you live near them They've had some awesome prospects come through there!

[clryan5]

Today I got returns from Pat Neshek & Jeremy Bloom
Pat Neshek:
5/5: 1 game-used ROMLB, 1 Twins baseball, 1 game-used Midwest League ball (He played A ball in the MWL near me), 1 Twins hat, 1 Twins mini helmet

Jeremy Bloom: 2/2 on 8x10s, Always loved watching him ski and was sad to see he didn't make it in the NFL. Still love him nonetheless

[clryan5]

Well I'd say I'm ready to meet Hunter Pence Tuesday in Minneapolis seeing as I've had dreams that I met him the past 2 nights! I met him in Chicago last year when he was playing for my Astros. To increase my odds of meeting him at Target Field I made this sign for my love Hunter Pence :)

[Blue33Gold]

nice sharper! any chance you could send me his address thru a PM? im a pretty big fan of his, met him a couple times

[clryan5]

nice sharper! any chance you could send me his address thru a PM? im a pretty big fan of his, met him a couple times

Like I told Riggs through a pvt message I still haven't completely unpacked my autograph stuff after moving home from college since I've been busy with a sister's college graduation, brother's HS graduation, and 1 of my triplet sister's wedding but I am going to get to it this wkend so if I find it in there I'd be happy to message u. Would u happen to have any addresses I may like, based on my returns haha

[clryan5]

Today brought South Carolina WBB Head Coach Dawn Staley. Loved watching her play for Team USA and in the WNBA, especially for my now defunct Houston Comets

Next, I got the dreaded baseball preprint and too busy to sign letter. This time from Adrian Gonzalez

And last, I got a postage due notice that I have to wait until Monday to pick up :(

[Blue33Gold]

ok thats fine thanks! just lmk and who are you looking for exactly?

[Welker83]

nice returns.
Wish the redsox would put them threw to the players pretty sure some of them would sign.