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?