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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:25 AM Jan 2014

Christie's already been caught in one big fib about his high school pal Wildstein.

Remember how Christie was tossing his friend overboard, saying that he didn't know him in high school? Bragging that he was Class President and athlete, and he didn't know what Wildstein was doing -- they traveled in different circles? That they weren't even acquaintances?

Those lies have already come back to bite him.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116177/chris-christie-did-know-david-wildstein-high-school-coach

Christie:

Well, let me just clear something up, OK, about my childhood friend David Wildstein. It is true that I met David in 1977 in high school. He's a year older than me. David and I were not friends in high school. We were not even acquaintances in high school. I mean, I had a high school in Livingston, a three-year high school that had 1,800 students in a three-year high school in the late '70s, early 1980. I knew who David Wildstein was. I met David on the Tom Kean for governor campaign in 1977. He was a youth volunteer, and so was I. Really, after that time, I completely lost touch with David. We didn't travel in the same circles in high school. You know, I was the class president and athlete. I don't know what David was doing during that period of time…We went 23 years without seeing each other. And in the years we did see each other, we passed in the hallways.


I recently spoke with Tony Hope, the former coach of the Livingston High baseball team, the Lancers. He recalled Christie’s years as the team’s catcher. He also recalled that David Wildstein was right there on the team with Christie:

David Wildstein was our baseball statistician. He was a very quiet, unassuming, brilliant kid. He’d do the baseball stats like you wouldn’t believe. He gave you the stats from the previous week’s games, he had a brilliant mind for numbers and figures….And he was doing it without any of the computers you have today. He’s doing it all with a calculator, none of the fancy technology…You know, averages against righthander and against lefthander, that sort of thing…He knew the game but he wasn’t at all a player. I mean, not at all.


Yes, young Wildstein was into sabermetrics before it was cool, sitting on the bench and providing the Lancers with data that helped make them one of the best teams in the state. The classic loyal geek. And decades later, he was still doing what he could behind the scenes to help the big man on campus, Chris Christie. Except it was again in Christie’s interest to look right past him. “Didn't travel in the same circles.” "Not even acquaintances." "Passed in the wallways." Nice knowing you, kid. Or not knowing you.
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Christie's already been caught in one big fib about his high school pal Wildstein. (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2014 OP
christie was an athlete ? JI7 Jan 2014 #1
Baseball catcher. I guess they found a spot that would work for him. n/t pnwmom Jan 2014 #2
Yeah, he was 5'10, laying down SmittynMo Jan 2014 #9
Snakes? Snakes? I don't know no snakes.... Tanuki Jan 2014 #3
The lies just keep tripping him up. Marie Marie Jan 2014 #4
Christie was an athlete? dballance Jan 2014 #5
He was catcher on the baseball team. pnwmom Jan 2014 #6
Sumo? Kablooie Jan 2014 #7
Evidently the high school Christie was not quite so larger than life TexasProgresive Jan 2014 #8
What happened to him???? Beacool Jan 2014 #10
never mind that evil man, Bea... i have your medicine, to make you forget such evil people; dionysus Jan 2014 #11
Ooohhh, that's a different kind of bankie. Beacool Jan 2014 #12
do you ever make a huge pile of bankies, and dive into them from a chair? dionysus Jan 2014 #13
Yep, it's fun. Beacool Jan 2014 #14
if you dive in and land on your back you can move your arms and legs and make a bankie angel dionysus Jan 2014 #15
Never thought of that. Beacool Jan 2014 #16
A tangled web ailsagirl Jan 2014 #17
Their "old coach" .. perfect, pnwmom~ Gotta give Cha Jan 2014 #18

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
4. The lies just keep tripping him up.
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:17 AM
Jan 2014

Hope he's rethinking just how good of an idea it was for him to blather on for hours during his presser. He tripped himself up more than once - the consequence for being in love with the sound of your own voice.

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
5. Christie was an athlete?
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:26 AM
Jan 2014

Um, what happened since then?

And I'm not fat shaming. I've been fat and lost tons of weight to be in the A-list crowd. Now I'm fat and old.

Beacool

(30,247 posts)
12. Ooohhh, that's a different kind of bankie.
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 07:34 PM
Jan 2014

Thank you, dear. I'll save it for the next polar vortex. It's pretty warm around here today (57), although it's been raining on and off all day.



Cha

(297,196 posts)
18. Their "old coach" .. perfect, pnwmom~ Gotta give
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 12:39 AM
Jan 2014

Christie a pass.. he didn't know wtf was going on back then with his good buddies.. anymore than he know wtf is going on now.

Or so "I am Not a Bully" Christie says. When his record of history puts a lie to that utterance.

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