NCAA.com: For TCU’s Saarloos, it’s all about trust
Michael Baumann | D1Baseball.com
HOUSTON— “Do you know what Kirk looks like?â€
“Yeah.â€
This wasn’t technically a lie. Brandie Davidson, from TCU’s media relations department, had told pitching coach Kirk Saarloos to expect me to come down from the press box to the stands for an interview at some point during his downtime at the Houston College Classic, and she wanted to make sure I could find him.
Did I know what he looked like? Sure, he was a normal-looking thirtysomething white guy with brown hair and a beard. Was I confident I could pick him out of a crowd of thousands at Minute Maid Park, in street clothes? Absolutely not. Guys who pitched seven years in the big leagues don’t get more normal-looking than Kirk Saarloos.
On Saturday night, Brandie led me down to where TCU’s coaches were sitting, and I introduced myself to a man who looks like your seventh-grader’s favorite social studies teacher, the one who can get the hyperactive kids to sit still in class and uses basketball metaphors to explain mercantilism and chaperones the winter semi-formal. …
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