Last night I watched the Padres whip the Marlins 14-3. Sometimes, if the announcers are crafty, these are great games to watch simply for the stories that are told to make up for the lack of anything competetitive occurring on the field. Such was the case last night with Dick Enberg and Mark Grant.
Somewhere around the 6th inning the guys started swapping stories about the self-proclaimed "greatest hitter of all time": Ted Williams. They talked about Williams and laughed about how his ability to hit was rivaled only by his ability to talk. "But what about fishing?", Grant asked Enberg. "Did you ever get to go fishing with him?" Enberg replied that he hadn't but someone he knew had.
Enberg continued to say that Teddy Ballgame was a hell of a fisherman. This was a fact that was not lost on Williams himself. Evidently at one point Ted turned to Enberg's lucky friend and, imitating the cocky proclamation of his younger self asserted, "I'm the greatest fisherman to have ever lived." Enberg's friend asked, "What about Jesus?" To which Williams replied, "Well, you had to go back a hell of a long way!"
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