"You've Got Balls My Friend!!"

The quote "you've got balls my friend" of course comes from Paulie on the Sopranos. But it might as well come from me talking to my friend Ken. Ken is a big part of the marathon team and I'm psyched about it. When he says he is going to do something, consider it done. End of story, bottom line, if Ken wants to do something, shut the lights out..the games over.

I guess the best place to start writing about Ken would be second grade. That's when Ken came in and told me he was going to be an eye doctor. I gave him one of my "shut the fuck up and finish your twinkie" looks. Well, the kid never changed his mind. Today he is a very successful eye doctor. He is very driven, smart and relentless.

Ken was a good athlete. If he tells you about baseball, he'll mention clobbering grand slams by me. Well I wasn't pitching, I was in left field. If I were pitching I would have beaned your ass like I beaned Sandra so get over it. There was little doubt about Ken's best sport. He was a hoop guy. He was good at any sport he played, but he was a special hoop player. Ken was a great ball handler, good shooter, nasty passer and the smartest player on the court. He was one of the best players ever to come out of Saugus high school (disclaimer: Let's address this right fucking now- I know some asshole is all pissed off because i disrespected some under achieving asshole. Here is my take,Ken is the best player I ever suited up with and that includes two hoop Hall of Famers. I'll give you former Detroit Piston Alex Winn, and I'll give you Welby but that's it. Dr. Ken comes in at number 3. Ken could have scored 20 a game if asked to. We had two 20 point scorers on the club, who do you think got them the fucking ball...enough said). Sorry, that shits been building for years. That '91 team talks way to fucking much.

Anyway, i don't even know where I was. But I'll pick it up here, there are game changing plays and life changing events. When this shit is going down, you need the ball in your best players hands. Ken, was always brilliant at times when the games was on the line. When others would shit their pants, Ken would take over. We'll he's like that in life. While some people can't make a big decision to save their ass, Ken just keeps coming clean. He's made some big decisions, most of them dead on great calls. The thing that separates Ken, the decisions that aren't right, he fixes them. No fucking around, he goes to plan B better than anyone I know. A lot of us have a plan B but don't have the balls to use it. Not Ken, he's got balls down to his ankles. He doesn't give a shit what other people think, he just does what he has to do to make things right.

Ken, you are my point guard for life. "You've got balls my friend". I'm jacked up about running the marathon with you. You've got the toughest training assignment, down in the Florida heat but your also the best athlete on the team so I'm not worried....till next time ross