Via PM:
congrats on your win in the "coach poll" - i owe you a beer.
My response:
hahaha awesome - thanks man. We'll do it at a game or johnnyjungle get together next season. Who's your predicition for our next coach?
RedMen4Eva's response:
would love capel but i think it will more likely be someone like greenburg or willard. what are you thinking?
you watching any tourney games this weekend? i'm thinking about going out tonight for some brews and bball (if the gf is cool with that).
This is when I start thinking, OK like I'm all for grabbing beers w posters, and I can't this weekend bc I'm going to Southampton for my wife's bday but I've never talked to this RedMen4Eva dude before. He's only posted 22 times, I wonder what his deal is.
Then as I go through the 22 posts...I realize...holy...crap...nearly every post is in response to me, agreeing with me, or directly references me...
This is when I freak out. Then I see the following posts and I get a little scared bc I'm like this dude who I don't know is way too into me:
Can't make it but I'm with Kid - backpage wings are the best.
this is my first time checking out this "off topic" discussion. this is insane! wtf? i have never heard of a "belly man". kid - how did you hear about this? are you paying to watch her eat fast food? c'mon own up to it...
added Foad - Tha Kid is winning by one!
And this is where I think it might actually be OldRed with the PS and the quotes and I really start to shyte my pants:
yes, goodbye and good luck to norm, now on to better things!
ps - Kid - I like your gladiator reference in your profile, hopefully the next coach will "unleash hell"
at which point I send Dave this message:
Hey man --- I'm prob being way paranoid, but who is RedMen4Eva? Do you know? The dude PM'd me saying he owes me a beer bc I won his coaching poll, so I told him that next johnnyjungle get together I'll accept it. Then he asked if I wanted to watch games with him this weekend, which I thought was odd, so I checked into his 22 posts. I'd say half or more than half of them are either 1) in direct response to a post of mine - AND agree with me or 2) Actually mention me (Kid - I like your gladiator quote, Kid - that's awesome your bro got to play Irving, Kid - you're winning my pool).
Anyways it kind of creeped me out for a sec. I know it's not protocol, but can you tell me who it is? I mean, at first I was like oh it's gotta be my brother messing with me, but it doesn't seem like him at all.
Minutes later I am thinking like no one would stalk me who the hell is this, read RedMen4Eva's first post saying he's a recent SJU grad and dad went to SJU...and I was like holy crap, this is too coincidental....my wife got me...
which is when I PM'd this to Dave, and called my wife, while laughing hysterically:
OH MY GOD. IT's MY WIFE. IT HAS TO BE.
The end. True story.
PS - After talking to her, she did have one thing to say. "Who's that Baldi guy - he's SO annoying"
All is right with the world.