I am not the type of person to get star struck when they see famous people but when it comes to my top idols who are: John Cena (wrestler), Chad Reed (motocross), and Chad Billingsley (Dodgers Pitcher) you best believe I become like a little kid in a candy shop.
Last night started out like any other Dodger game, but there was just this emotion through out the crowd that it was going to be a goodnight. Now before my dad and I had even got to the game I had told him that my goal for the night was to get Billingsley to sign my shirt.
Now this was not just an ordinary shirt, I have a tradition that I have been doing for years. That tradition is that every season I make a homemade Chad Billingsley shirt to wear to the games. The past two years the shirt has basically been the same but with minor changes done to it. This year it was very simple because I knew that if I ever got it signed it would be going in a frame and it would then be hung on my wall. So the only thing I put on it this year was I Heart (an actual heart with 58 which is his number in side it) Chad, on the front of the shirt.
As the SF Giants were doing their batting practice the Dodgers pitchers began to come in and out of their bullpen now this kind of discouraged me because I had seen Billingsley but by the time I had seen him he was already heading inside. Once I saw that I got a little bit down and figured that I was not going to be able to get my shirt signed.
The next thing I know I see Steve Yager, who is a former Dodgers catcher, out in the bullpen and he was signing a few of the fans balls that they tossed to him. So I decided what the heck I might as well get his autograph because 1 autograph is better than none. So I went over and got his autograph and then sat back down in my seat.
A few minutes later I see Chris Capuano and Billingsley come back out to the bullpen and start signing autographs. Naturally I jumped out of my seat and ran right over and the first one I got to was Capuano so I handed him my pen and threw him my shirt and the look on his face when he opened my shirt was priceless.
He started laughing and I asked him, "Hey would you mind asking Billingsley to sign it for me please?" Capuano then answered, "Yeah no problem." He then called out to Billingsley who was at the other end of the bullpen, "Hey Chad, buddy, what do you think of this shirt?" Billinglsey responded, "Ha Ha thats one of the best shirts I've ever seen" "It's pretty amazing if I do say so myself" I replied. I then told him that he should come out of the bullpen and take a picture with me and the shirt and he said "I don't think I could fit in the shirt and don't think it would look to good on me" Capuano heard him of course and said "It would be funny though to see you try and put it on Chad"
Mean while as I am having conversations with Billingsley and Capuano they are passing my shirt around to all of the other pitchers so they could sign it for me as well. After that the game was starting so they had to go and I had to go back to my seat. But that is defiantly an experience I will never forget not only did Billingsley sign my shirt but I had a full on conversation with him it really made my night!
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