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Posted By: Jared

Curtis used to be roommates with my one of my best friends older brother when he played at University Illinois Chicago, UIC. He was their right fielder and wasn't even the best player on the team. My friends brother was until he blew out all three ligaments in his knee against Ohio State. Curtis would hang out with us when I used to go with my best friend down to Florida for their spring training. We used to watch his brother play and then head to the beach. Curtis was always with us at dinner and lunches and even the beach since his family wasn't able to take the two weeks off. He is really funny and pretty quite. I guess the story goes about him getting noticed by scouts, according to my friends brother, was that he was in right field and ran down a slicing line drive, spun and threw a guy out at home who was tagging with all the scouts in the stands who were there to scout one of their pitchers. I am still to this day surprised he made it so fast to the bigs.