Garrett Broshius
Talking to #29 Connecticut Defenders Pitcher

I just thought I would share the email that I had with Garrett Broshius.

Me: (Garretts is below mine)

Hi Garrett,

I just wanted to tell you how much me and I am sure many other fans have appreciated you keeping up such a wonderful blog even after the season is over. I'm only 15 but the Defenders has made sports and baseball from a foriegn thing to me, to my hobby. And I always enjoy seeing everyone play. Actually, the last day of the season, you signed your 2006 season baseball card for me. And thats whats great, is players like you, Derin McMains, Tyler Von Schell, Brian Horwitz, etc. Like to interact with the fans and sign things for us. That defiantly makes us feel great. I don't know if you realize how much I appreciate the kindness of you guys. For Example; the final game of the season one of my favorite players, Tyler Von Schell, popped a flyball and I got hit by it. Right away I saw he was worried and he checked up on me after. Lets just say almost all of Sect. 5 was happy to see that players really care about their fans even though they are busy, and are concentrating on the game. I defiantly can't wait for the 2007 season and I hope you, and the rest of the Defenders are with us again, or AAA, or Majors.

Just one question... are you going to be writing a blog during the off season? Cause alot of my friends are always wondering what the team does on their offseason.

A Fan Forever
~Michelle


Garrett Broshius:

Michelle,
Thank you very much for your very kind and sincere e-mail. All of us always enjoy hearing from fans like yourself. And I actually remember the flyball that hit you. I remember that you had Von Schell and his number on your shirt, and I was thinking how ironic that he hit a flyball that hit you. I'm glad that you didn't get hurt in any way from it.
I actually am probably going to write one more blog and I think you'll enjoy it. It's going to be on the off-season jobs that a lot of guys get. I probably won't start it until sometime early next week, so you can look for it at the end of the week. That will probably be my last one, I don't know what I'd write about since we're not in season now!
Take care,

GARRETT


I think its great when players reply to their fans and interact with us. You don't know how happy I was when I recieved a reply. Well, I sent him an email back so if I get another reply, I'll post it.