Today: Phillies reliever Pat Neshek
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What’s your first baseball memory? Neshek: We had one of those big bats, and I’d go around the yard hitting the ball. I was probably like 3 years old. I used to carry that thing everywhere. That was one. And then probably opening baseball cards, I think in 1985. I would have been about 5 years old. I really liked the Fleer, but I was a Topps kid. But the Fleer designs were good then. I had a paper route and I’d buy a few boxes, for like 45 bucks. I thought it was a good idea at the time.
What’s the last show you binge-watched? Neshek: “Ozark.” That was good.
What’s your favorite free-time activity? Neshek: Probably just hanging out with my kids now. It used to be baseball cards, but it’s my kids now. They’re 5, 3 and 1.
What was your first job? Neshek: I delivered papers, so I was a paper boy. We’d load them up (on the bike) and deliver them, then after a while I started paying some of the neighborhood kids to help me.
If you were MLB commissioner for a day, what’s one thing you would do? Neshek: Um … (long pause) … probably start talking with the players a lot earlier.
What are a few of your favorite Twitter follows? Neshek: Oh, I don’t know. Just the people who break the news. It’s kind of my newspaper.
What’s the best purchase you’ve ever made? Neshek: Probably some of the signed baseball cards. I don’t really have any in particular, but just some of them from like 10 years ago, the ones you can’t find anymore.
