Say HEY! Willie Mays, 75 on Saturday

Let me recap as I understand it:
- your friend, a collector, wants Willie Mays’s autograph
- he pays whatever fee and joins the queue
- when he meets Mays, he asks him to sign with a sharpie, Mays doesn’t want to
- rather than accept an autograph signed with a pen, your friend decides he would rather have no autograph at all and goes to leave
- Mays, clearly annoyed, calls him back, signs with the marker but doesn’t put much effort into it
- your friend hangs around, Mays would very much like this guy out of his sight
- despite the bolded sentence, the key part, we are supposed to sympathise with your friend?

I didn't tell the story looking for anyone to sympathize with him! I actually thought it was a funny story. Only after the usual crew of three or four people materialized out of thin air to argue with me did I feel the need to defend him (which he'd find highly amusing, seeing as often he and I disagree). And yeah, if you're not happy that what you're about to get isn't what you paid for--cf. the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets--you'd rather have no autograph at all. That seems pretty basic to me.

I'm guessing my friend hung around because he wasn't satisfied with the autograph and was thinking about what he should do. I don't think there was a stipulation that people were to vacate the room immediately after their item had been signed.

Forgot it was Willie Mays/Orson Welles/Sigmund Freud day.

https://www.mlb.com/news/willie-mays-best-stats-and-accomplishments

92 is quite another accomplishment, Happy Birthday!

At the ballpark:

Always a special day when we get to celebrate Willie 🧡 pic.twitter.com/UdVWn75aI5

— SFGiants (@SFGiants) May 7, 2023

That's great. I'll say it again: dedicate the next All-Star Game to him while they still have the chance (and try to talk him into attending).

Today is Willie Mays Day (2/4/24)* and the Giants have been sharing videos with tributes:

Will Clark:

HAPPY WILLIE MAYS DAY!!! 🐐

A story about the GOAT showing up Kevin Mitchell and me: https://t.co/80vI8ZMawO pic.twitter.com/EVhVbHZ9wO

— Will Clark (@WillClark22) February 4, 2024

24 shouts out 24 🐐 @Mariners pic.twitter.com/RmVvxX0QAF

— SFGiants (@SFGiants) February 4, 2024

At 7:24 a.m., San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially proclaimed today -- 2/4/24 -- Willie Mays Day. Here's the report from City Hall and what S.F. and the @sfgiants are doing to celebrate the Say Hey Kid: https://t.co/8MyzBMillT via @sfchronicle

— John Shea (@JohnSheaHey) February 4, 2024

Will look at those when I get home. You know what my thought was when I saw this revived.

I think people have said this before, I should have prefaced with HE’S NOT DEAD

Vic Wertz, born February 9, 1925.

https://i.postimg.cc/8CkNFYp2/vic.jpg