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Thanks again to our presenting sponsor SNY for supporting QBC15. Here is some of their coverage including Wally Backman!

I have been typing and retweeting for four straight hours now and my hands are sore.  I’m a little “hungover” and still blown away by the reaction.

I’m struggling to find the right words for any of my emotions, so I am going to just type and see what lands.  Please know that as I type, my thoughts are about how awesome all of YOU are, and nothing in this post is meant to be self-congratulatory.

I don’t even know where to begin so in no particular order….

THANKS!  I am afraid to start typing names here for fear of leaving someone out.  So many people helped behind the scenes.  These volunteers just gave their time out of love for the project.  Panelists, vendors, baseball players, baseball teams, mascots…..  Thank you all!

 

THANKS FOR THE PRESENTS.  While in Thank You mode, I received several nice gifts from attendees and vendors.  I have some really nice additions for the MPHQ Office and will be sharing them.  Thank you guys!

 

ED CHARLES.  I caught some dust in my eye during Ed.  I think a fellow 40-something did too, we exchanged knowing glances in that Manly Way and went back to getting the dust out.  I hope you were there for Ed and the Gil Hodges Unforgettable Fire Award.  This was just special, and as I said earlier I anticipate Greg Prince will do a fine recap on Faith & Fear and I’ll probably steal 17 paragraphs from that.

 

JERSEY PARADE.  It’s such stupid fun.  Thanks for playing along!

 

PANELS I was in and out of the panels all day, didn’t get to catch as much as I wanted.  I heard Backman was incredible and the Rubin panel was really strong.  I had a great time on my three, and will do a separate post about the retired numbers panel in a few days.

 

WILL THERE BE A QBC16?

We’re all tired today.  We don’t have a date planned.  I personally have had a few discussions about having one and what it might look like, but it’s so early that it’s not even early yet.

 

AUDIO/VIDEO etc

We captured a lot of the day in various media and I have a plan on how to deploy it.  Candidly I don’t have it in me today to process things, and wouldn’t have the time if I have the energy.  I’ll probably be able to announce a deployment plan tomorrow.  Which panel would you like me to process first?

 

 

And of course thanks to Keith @mediagoon Blacknick and the less visible Dan @dtwohig Twohig for the enormous behind the scenes contributions and hard work.  (Also Media Goon Sis who is even less visible).   I do most of the blogging and thus get more pats on the back than I deserve, but those guys did all the real work.

 

Anyway, that’s my rambling.  Gonna put the laptop away for a few hours so my thumbs stop aching.  Thanks!!

 

Ed Charles w/ Greg Prince getting the Gil Hodges Unforgettable Fire award #qbc

A photo posted by Taryn Cooper (@coopz22) on Jan 10, 2015 at 3:19pm PST

Hopefully you were still there at the end of QBC15 for the presentation of the Gil Hodges Unforgettable Fire Award to Ed Charles.

As I type this post I realize I will never do justice to it (and Greg Prince will over at Faith and Fear In Flushing, I should just link to that.)

As I stood in the back hanging on every word Ed said, every story he told, I was just so happy to be there when this moment happened.  Ed was so happy, so comfortable telling stories.

Then he spoke about Gil, and I will say the same thing I say about everyone who speaks about Gil – if you listen to anyone speak about Gil for five seconds you pick up on how they all revere him.  There’s nobody who disliked him or thought he was OK.  They all revere him.  You listen to Ed Charles, or Tom Seaver, or anyone from that time period speak and you can’t for the life of you figure out why Gil Hodges is not in the Hall of Fame.

I also had an eye on Greg Prince.  The universe has chosen Greg to be the keeper of the Hodges flame, and it has chosen wisely.  Greg doesn’t do this for self-credit he does it to keep Gil’s name out there.  If QBC can contribute to getting people to say Gil Hodges frequently we will be happy to do so for as long as we keep having QBCs.

As I continue to shotgun posts, here’s our buddy Underscore with rock star Wally Backman. Thanks to Bro for helping us out yesterday. Great recap with some photos  of #QBC15

Queens Baseball Convention Round Up.

 

 

I met my fav Met Wally Backman at the QBC. pic.twitter.com/ujTAlCbe6h

— Joseph Stumpf (@JosephStumpf12) January 11, 2015

Good morning….gonna shotgun a few posts and say little this morning until I have time to collect my thoughts and properly thank everyone for a great day yesterday at #QBC15.   So that is to come.  Until then let’s just jump in the pool and blog.

I heard the Backman panel was fantastic.  Folks kept talking about it all afternoon.

The piece in the Daily News was filed by Bill Price (aka Bitter Bill) who is a really cool dude.  I’m glad I got to hang with him for a bit, and we did the Retired Numbers panel together (more on that later, lots to catch up on this morning…)

“I want to manage,” said Backman, who added he would only want to serve as a coach for “a very special person. My desire is to manage.”

via Wally Backman talks up the Mets pitching at Queens gathering – NY Daily News.