My son and I attended the opening game of spring training for the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday and while we were waiting on a buddy of mine to show up a reporter interviewed us. I never imagined that it would make it into the paper much less on the front page and of large newspaper that has a huge circulation in this area. You can find it by searching for the Bradenton Herald on line. Here is part of the article.

Posted on Sat, Mar. 05, 2005









McKechnie crowd sets Pirates record

MIKE HENRY

Herald Staff Writer


BRADENTON - Connor Etheridge was gobbling popcorn with both hands Friday when he spotted an old friend underneath the stands at McKechnie Field.

"Daddy, look!" the 4-year-old gushed before sprinting toward the Pittsburgh Pirates Parrot mascot.

Pat Etheridge smiled as Connor hugged Parrot and the two danced an impromptu jig. Connor won't remember the details of the Pirates' 9-6 victory against the New York Yankees, but he'll eagerly await his next encounter with the great big bird.

"He likes that parrot. And he just started T-ball, so he loves baseball," said Etheridge, a mortgage broker from Palmetto. "My wife is out of town with my daughter, and here we are."

The Etheridges were among a McKechnie Field opening-day record crowd of 6,015 basking in bright sunshine as Major League Baseball's richest franchise played one of its most frugal.

Very cool Pbds! Make sure you get several copies and frame one! ;) Last a lifetime!

Aww, thats awesome to hear :) So he's a future ball player and a dancer huh?

Cool mate :) My son got picked from all the IT students at college to appear in the college prospectus for the year 05-06. Looking forward to seeing it, makes the old chest swell with pride don't it? i once appeared in the local press as part of PR for the company I was working for, something to annopunce the new management line up I was part of. I told my mum whose reaction was "you look like a bouncer" ;)

Lol :D

cool! i'm a mortgage broker too!

cool! i'm a mortgage broker too!


...Yeah, I saw that you mentioned that before and I asked you about it in a thread. How is the Cali mtg business going these days?

Thats nice.

very cool!!!

Wow that's very cool. Except the part about the Yankees losing ;) I think you are doing the right thing getting the kids involved in sports early. :cool:

very cool pbds. i hope you brought the camera and took a pic of the dance with the mascot to go with the newsclip.

Supercool man. I bet your son will remeber that for a lifetime.

...Yeah, I saw that you mentioned that before and I asked you about it in a thread. How is the Cali mtg business going these days?

well there are more banks here than fast food restaurants. everyone's a loan officer it seems. i can't relax at a bar without hearing some phoney ****sucker brag about bull**** money and LTVs, DTIs, beacons, and whatever else.

but i do nationwide lending so i get to talk to everyone. i will admit that most californians are usually ****y and disrespectful because of the equity they've made in the last 5 years.

well there are more banks here than fast food restaurants. everyone's a loan officer it seems. i can't relax at a bar without hearing some phoney ****sucker brag about bull**** money and LTVs, DTIs, beacons, and whatever else.

but i do nationwide lending so i get to talk to everyone. i will admit that most californians are usually ****y and disrespectful because of the equity they've made in the last 5 years.


.....pbds here, yeah I hear ya. Florida is not at Cali real estate values yet but it's getting blown up fast. My value has gone up nearly 100k in the last 2 years. I have a buddy of mine that came from Cali to work for me here about 5 years ago and has since moved back to Cali and is still a broker there. Alot of phoney's in the business that claim they make a ****load more than they actually do so I agree with you there.

cool! i'm a mortgage broker too!

evil incarnate.

Alot of phoney's in the business that claim they make a ****load more than they actually do so I agree with you there.

professional bull****ters. and that's one thing i won't do.

good stuff, pbds...say, are you related to melissa (etheridge)? - sry, i had to say it, dude

good stuff, pbds...say, are you related to melissa (etheridge)? - sry, i had to say it, dude


....Nah, the lesbians in my family are much hotter than that skank. :)