Within the span of about a week, two of my old co-worker friends came in to town for work related travel. I worked with both of them in sports broadcasting for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. I hadn't seen either in about 5 years so it was completely ironic that they were both in town for separate jobs in such a short span of time.
Dan, my friend from Canada, I used to like to call Dan Canadian. It was a play on the word DAMN Canadian. He spends most of his time in Beijing planning olympic broadcasting stuff there. And Mike, well I just called him Mike. He works for the HBO Boxing Circuit. They both travel for work all over the world and I knew that some day one of them had to end up here in NY for something.
My work schedule was pretty busy that week with lots of international IPOs, but I did get to squeeze in a little time. Dan and I went to a diner for breakfast as that was the only time we could both meet up. Dragging my ass out of bed on a Saturday morning at 630am is painful, but I hadn't seen my friend in a long time. Mike's gig was at MSG (Madison Square Gardens for you non-New Yorkers) and my girlfriend Maggie and I stopped by to say hello. There is a funny little side story here.
So, we get there and Mike has press passes lined up for us to get in to see some of the boxing match. We both had passes for guys - Maggie was "BOB" and she insisted that her name should really be Bobbette. I was Majid or something like that. I didn't have any insistance on being called anything else because I don't know how to feminize that name. Thanks Mike for hookin' us up pimp style ringside. It was the coolest thing and my friend Maggie now things I am the *shit*. Also, for all the single ladies out there - I recommend boxing matches. TONS OF MEN and very little competition. I've been searching online to find out all the dates for the next matches - ok, not really, but I cannot say that the thought hasn't crossed my mind.
Here are pics from both visits.
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