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Where Are They Now? Terry Parker....

By Bronzed nuts, 10/10/07, 10:35PM HKT

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Check out what TP's been up to since leaving Hong Kong

Terry Parker played in the HKSPSA for seven years with LA Café/Stormy Weather and in tourneys with the Turkeys.  Of all the players to play Right or Right Center nobody played the wall like Terry Parker!  Fearless in the outfield and solid at the plate TP was a big part of Stormy’s championship run in 2003.  He was known as one of the nicest guys in the league and rarely was there a weekend where he was not one of the last remaining in the bleachers.  A southern gentleman in every sense of the word Terry Parker was one of the most liked guys in the league.

 

TP is currently going to law school in New Hampshire.  We caught up with him and got his thoughts on the league as well as a host of other topics…..

 

How is law school going?

 

Beats working.  

 

I’m picturing you as the Andy Griffith in “Matlock” type lawyer!  You know, light gray suit and always asking one last question that nails them on the stand.  Am I right?

 

I’ll have to work on the suit and the last question that nails them.

 

You’re living in New Hampshire, how are you, Chia-Huei and the boys fairing?

 

I love New Hampshire.  It’s Tennessee without the racists and homophobes.  The boys are in heaven. They run wild through the neighborhood. They have their soccer league in a park across the street.  Baseball all summer.  They ski every weekend in the summer.  In fact, their school has ski day every Tuesday in the winter.  There’s hockey on the pond in the park.  They don’t want to go back.  Chia-Huei, however, couldn’t be more miserable.  She was built for the city.

 

 

What’s the best part about being back?

 

Grass.  Sports for the kids.  The schools.  Going to baseball games at Fenway.  I grew up in Tennessee watching the Braves on TBS, going to minor league games.  Very laid back stuff, even on quarter beer night.  Just didn’t associate baseball with passion.  But Baseball at Fenway is like SEC football.  I love it.

 

I know you still have strong ties to Asia, any designs on coming back soon?

 

I am talking with a few teams in the league about coming back as a bench coach.   I’m also in early negotiations with a Shanghai team.

 

You played with Coop the whole time in Hong Kong.  Could you please describe to us the joys of playing with the master?

 

He always started drinking three hours before anyone else, and even when sober he spoke that weird dialect from some 50’s drug culture, so when he came to the plate people dismissed him.  But he had a ton of clutch hits.  That was a joy.

 

When you guys won the championship in ’03 that was a team that came from nowhere and put it all together at the end.  I think your regular season record was something like 6-16.  How did you guys turn it around so quickly?

 

What do you mean “turn it around”?  We were the greatest 6-16 team in the history of the league.  Those six regular season wins were when Dave Wan was it town.  Do you remember him?  He paralyzed teams.  He came back for the first round of the playoffs and got us through a long day.  I don’t remember who pitch the rest of it but there weren’t as many walks as in the regular season.  Scott Wilson, Angelosante and H-Bomb hit a ton of 2Bs.  Plested had some huge HRs.  Hoover didn’t know what to do with the guy.  AVP, Bachner, and Angelosante always hit.

 

Any stories you can share from that team?

 

There’s a story about Angelosante and a goat, but I can’t share it.  Sharing stuff on the Internet is dangerous, Greg.

 

Who do you keep in touch with from the team?

 

Scott Wilson, AVP, Bachner, Andrew McKinnon.

 

Name three movies that made you cry?

 

Brian’s Song.  In the 6th grade I took a date to see a movie called The Champ and I got all teary eyed.  I think I recovered before the lights came on. 

 

What about Jerry McGuire when Rene Zellweger said to Tom Cruise “you had me at hello”?

 

I don’t think I cried at that.

 

Peter Klimenko always called you Terry “Trailer” Parker.  How come that name never stuck, it’s perfect?

 

Fortunately, nobody listens to PK.

 

Holland is also known as The Netherlands and yet their people are called “Dutch”.  Why is that and don’t you think it’s kind of confusing?  I mean we’re from the United States of America and we’re American!  Straight and to the point!  Where do they get off with all these different names??

 

I don’t have an answer for that, Greg.

 

Michael Vick- “Who cares, he was just providing a place for his buddies to gamble!” or “how could anybody do that crap to man’s best friend?”

 

I’m in the “how could anybody do that to a dog” camp?  Some of my best friends are dogs.

 

What was a better TV show- The Munsters or The Adams family?

 

The Munsters.  No question.

 

Who was the more lovable character- Grandpa Al Lewis or Uncle Fester?

 

Grandpa Al.

 

Anything you’d like to say to the fellas back in Hong Kong?

 

Gobble, gobble.

 

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