It’s not exactly MeTrain, but it’s close

December 6th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

Anyone who likes The Dugout — and really, who doesn’t, besides people both dislike baseball and who don’t use AIM much — is familiar with MeTrain, Dontrelle Willis’ screenname. He’s one of the few classic characters our now-FanHouse colleagues have conjured over the years, and he’s pretty brilliant. I don’t always understand what he’s trying to tell me, but he’s brilliant nonetheless.

Still, MeTrain is just a character, a figment of a few brilliant imaginations. He’s not the real Dontrelle Willis, no matter what AOL commenters might think. The real Dontrelle Willis — now writing for Yardbarker — is a real person, with totally different pursuits, a real life … you know, nothing like the fictionalized version. Not at all. No way:

whats good everyone this is your boy d nice saying hello. As u can see im now part of the yardbarker family and im here to give u whatever u need in world of sports. hahahahah just playin, like i know anything besides baseball but i will say i do love sports and i love to talk about them so whenever u want to hit me up i will get back u asap. durling the course of the year i will talk about things that are on my head and things that u want to talk about as well.

.THE TRADE
Its crazy how it can happen anytime anywhere . Man i get off a plane in mexico with my family and everyone is callin me like something bad happened but i didnt know until my agent called and told me. I thought he was playin but then i saw it on t.v and for a second i was like ”damn for real” then i was like “well lets do it baby boy ” . My family didnt know how i would take it so they didnt know how to act so it was kinda funny. It feels good that someone else wants u but at the same time i felt like i didnt want to leave. But i do understand that moves r made alot in the game and now im apart of one once again.

It may not be identical … but it’s pretty close, right?

Dontrelle Willis also enjoys making it rain

April 4th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

I think making it rain is swell. It supports single mothers, is the perfect non-dance to complement a great club song, and mostly, it just looks really, really sweet. I think I might get three or four $1 bills and make it rain on my keyboard right now. It’s so fun! Look at the bills fly! Weeee!

We all know Pacman Jones agrees with me. And thanks to our boy Matt at the MLB FanHouse, we now we know that Dontrelle Willis does too:

For at least two nights a week in March, bar staff tells Page Two, star pitcher Dontrelle Willis, described as the ringleader, second baseman Dan Uggla and others were known to swing by the Riviera Beach joint and shower the gals with dollar bills until 3 a.m.

“There’d be, like, $3,000 in singles on the table,” said waitress Nicole Spelling. “When they liked someone, a bunch of them would just go up and throw dollar bills in the air by the handful. There’d be so much money on the stage that the girls had to get champagne buckets to pick it up. And (pitcher) Randy Messenger is, like, so hot.”

As Matt points out, Randy Messenger is not, by any standard definition of the word, “hot.” Just a heads up for the ladies (and men) who might have been confused.

I don’t know what it is. Throwing $3,000 away like that is completely stupid and, considering the persistent poverty issues in this country and others, sort of disgusting … but I love it. I’m not really sure why I love making it rain, but boy I do. More rain, please.