{"id":1000,"date":"2023-10-12T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rickollie.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2024-10-25T06:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T10:41:20","slug":"a-halloween-trick-maybe-a-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickollie.com\/es\/2023\/10\/12\/a-halloween-trick-maybe-a-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Halloween Trick, Maybe a Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet: Dr Justenstein<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 12, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past August, I visited Justin Lopez and his better half, Sarah, in Madison, Wisconsin for some R & R. He teaches and studies at the university there. And although I call him a traitor for traveling north to an opposing Big 10 school to do whatever someone with a degree in\u00a0‘Kinesiology’<\/strong>\u00a0does, I’m very pound of him and Sarah. With that being said, let’s\u00a0‘ROAST’<\/strong>\u00a0him! – Rick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Dr Justenstein’<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>He was a good kid growing up. Like most boys he played sports but when he was studying his mind would wonder. He’d get good grades and stayed out of trouble. However, the hidden thoughts weaved tightly throughout his cerebellum would lead to his success in life. Justin was on his way to becoming ‘Dr Justenstein’<\/strong>\u00a0when he set his sight on a career in\u00a0Kinesiology. \u00a0<\/strong>Which I even had to google to spell correctly here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Justin and Sarah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ninth Inning:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>I was there when Justin graduated high school. And it was that very same time of the year the teen was helping me move into my new digs. I remember it like yesterday because there was a baseball game going on in Downtown Detroit. A big one, and if\u00a0Franklin D Roosevelt\u00a0<\/strong>hadn’t already used\u00a0‘a date which will live in infamy’\u00a0<\/strong>decades earlier, it most certainly would’ve on this day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armando Galarraga tossed his near perfect game against the, then, Indians of Cleveland. Only foiled by a blown call on the 27th batter of the game by first base umpire Jim Joyce. I’ve forgiven Joyce, like many others throughout my own decades for their mishaps in life. But I’ve never had to forgive Justin for a single thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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