{"id":173245,"date":"2011-08-24T06:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/57.4381"},"modified":"2011-08-24T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:28:23","slug":"i-always-had-great-eck-spectations-for-my-best-pal-and-dundalk-wrestling-hero-kevin-eck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baltimorepositive.com\/i-always-had-great-eck-spectations-for-my-best-pal-and-dundalk-wrestling-hero-kevin-eck\/","title":{"rendered":"I always had great Eck-spectations for my best pal and Dundalk wrestling hero Kevin Eck"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been an emotional week for me on many levels with more big news forthcoming about WNST.net and its future, so please allow me a little space today to write a very personal blog that comes from the heart.<\/p>\n

Kevin Eck \u2013 you probably know him as the \u201cRing Post\u201d guy at The Baltimore Sun — has been in my life since 1979 and for large swaths of time we were as close as any brothers could be. We met at the Games store at Eastpoint Mall (remember that place?) at an autograph signing for Billy Smith. We also both met Al Bumbry, Scott McGregor, Mike Flanagan and Rich Dauer (his favorite) there on the north end of the mall during that \u201cMagical\u201d summer. I was a legitimate \u201cmall rat\u201d at Eastpoint Mall in the early 1980\u2019s \u2013 PacMan, soaping the fountains, that sorta thing.<\/p>\n

As Bruce Springsteen once wrote so eloquently in the E Street Band classic, Bobby Jean: \u201cWe liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we like the same clothes.\u201d That could\u2019ve been the story of Nestor and Kevin. Except we liked the same girls, baseball, football, basketball, rock bands and, of course, professional wrestling of the WWWF and the land of Bob Backlund and George \u201cThe Animal\u201d Steele.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a story about my lifelong best pal from Holabird Junior High and Dundalk Senior High. It\u2019s not just a media or journalist story.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really about a kid from Dundalk who dreamed of working in professional wrestling and next week is embarking on a journey of a lifetime.<\/p>\n

I can say with all of the conviction in my being that Kevin Eck ate, slept, talked, walked, learned, researched, watched, critiqued, worked in and worked out of nothing but the world of professional wrestling.<\/p>\n

The genesis of our friendship wasn\u2019t born of the Orioles or Colts or any rock music band like Rush — and they’re all closer to the heart of our friendship. The truth: Kevin was the only other WWWF wrestling aficionado and wrestling magazine nut when I was in the 7th grade. It was our special bond \u2013 a love of the squared circle and the work of Bruno Sammartino, Superstar Billy Graham, Greg Valentine and Andre The Giant.<\/p>\n

So, this isn\u2019t just about another \u201cDundalk boy did well\u201d story, it\u2019s more like a Willy Wonka kind of story with imagination .<\/p>\n

Look, I could tell Kevin Eck stories all night. Chasing girls in the 8th grade. Attending every middle school and high school dance. Girlfriends, births, deaths, jobs, journalism, careers, wives\u2026we\u2019ve done it all.\u00a0 Crazy weeks in Jamaica. Long weekends in Ocean City. All-night benders in Las Vegas and San Diego. You name it. World Series games, crazy cab rides that I chronicled in “Purple Reign” when Eck was the first person in Baltimore to hear the news that the Browns\/Modells were moving their NFL franchise to Baltimore.<\/p>\n

Eck and I have been around the world together and have shared our lives together. If you want to see a bunch of crazy old, embarrassing pictures I posted them all on my Facebook page here.<\/a> Please feel free to fan me and I’ll try to make you laugh more often.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s nothing better in life than when your friends do well. Nothing!<\/p>\n

Especially when your oldest friends succeed and thrive and live their dreams.<\/p>\n

Kevin Eck\u2019s life and dream came full-circle and into the squared circle a few weeks ago when he accepted a job to work on the WWE creative team with Stephanie McMahon, Triple H and Dusty Rhodes in Greenwich, Ct. He\u2019s packing up his family and moving to take a job a lifetime at Titan Tower.<\/p>\n

In baseball, we’d say he got the call to “go to the show.”<\/p>\n

And this must be what it feels like when your brother or best friend or son makes his first big-league start.<\/p>\n

You almost want to pinch yourself for them, you know?<\/p>\n

Our lives and our career paths have followed a similar, strange path \u2013 we’ve worked directly in the same industry as competitors for the better part of two decades and somehow have managed to keep our friendship (and that\u2019s not always easy with two fiery personalities).<\/p>\n

I got a job at The News American in September 1984. He soon followed.<\/p>\n

I got a job at The Evening Sun in January 1986. He soon followed at The Sun.<\/p>\n

I left The Sun in January 1992. He left a few years later to go to work for Ted Turner and WCW as a magazine editor in the last 1990\u2019s and was there during a turbulent corporate time when Vince McMahon\u2019s then-WWF empire usurped the entire industry and my pal came back from Atlanta having to start his local journalism life all over again.<\/p>\n

Because of his immense talent and deep depth of knowledge of local sports, Kevin got his job back on the editing desk at The Sun, right back in the sports department. He began writing his passion \u2013 a little blog called \u201cRing Posts\u201d a few years ago and it quickly became a viral hit. (As I told him it would be\u2026)<\/p>\n

So many times I talk about expertise in journalism, integrity in reporting and fairness in news judgment and I\u2019m proud to say Kevin Eck has all of that and has for the most part been a \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d guy at The Sun, who never had a high profile beat but has been a rock star in his department on the high schools and the dirty work that so many don\u2019t want to do in the journalism business — editing, planning, managing people.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s kind of like that lunch pail rock star football player \u2013 a Jarret Johnson, Kelly Gregg kinda underrated guy. But a guy you\u2019d never want to lose. And he’ll be the first guy in the clubhouse and the last to leave.<\/p>\n

The Sun is taking a major hit losing a guy like Kevin Eck, especially given his deep knowledge of Baltimore sports, which I sadly never put to better use. I always thought Kevin would\u2019ve been a star doing local sports talk radio and I told him that. But he already had a gig and one that both of us dreamed of having as kids, which is what took us into the newspaper business back in 1984.<\/p>\n

We both watched “The Odd Couple” as kids and wanted to be Oscar Madison, truth be told.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the WWE is getting a rock star \u2013 someone who is so dedicated to wrestling that it honestly baffled all of our friends, especially when it became apparent through his mom taping every single episode of every single match on VHS tapes for the better part of 25 years.<\/p>\n

Kevin Eck has watched as much wrestling as Mel Kiper Jr. has watched college football tape.<\/p>\n

Seriously\u2026<\/p>\n

This summer, as a hobby, I took it upon myself to work on one project outside of direct WNST sales and development business and that\u2019s been collecting all of my pictures, memorabilia and boxes o\u2019memories to use on my Facebook page and in an upcoming reality TV show I\u2019m participating in with a friend. (I can\u2019t tell you more about it until they let me.)<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, at the bottom of a box, I found this gem of a memory.<\/a><\/p>\n

And even though it happened on July 25, 1981, I remember it pretty well. Kevin and I were crashing at his Mom\u2019s house and we began working on a project to quietly unseat Vince McMahon from his kingdom by publishing our own Pro Wrestling magazine. We were gonna make millions with this partnership venture.<\/p>\n

His mom Shirley, who has struggled with her health lately and was like a second mother to me, was the only person we knew who could type so she was our typesetter and we had to go to the library to make copies and we planned to sell them for 25 cents.<\/p>\n

Kevin and I worked all night to make the inaugural (and only) edition of Wrestling, Inc. with Dusty Rhodes on the cover.<\/p>\n

That was 30 years ago last month. I don\u2019t think Kevin has missed a WWE wrestling match since 1981.<\/p>\n

Other than Dave Meltzer and perhaps Alex Marvez, my pal Kevin Eck is as expert about all things professional wrestling as anyone on the planet outside of Vince McMahon himself.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much Kevin Eck doesn\u2019t know about pro wrestling, except now he\u2019ll be on the inside of the WWE kingdom helping put on the show and make it better.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s off to the WWE to make a difference to follow his dream.<\/p>\n

He loved The Baltimore Sun. He loves Baltimore sports and has quietly dedicated his life to it the way I did.<\/p>\n

I was the loud boisterous pal. He was always the quiet one in the shadows.<\/p>\n

I traveled the world, got syndicated, did my thing and he was always so supportive \u2013 like a brother \u2013 through all of my victories and challenges.<\/p>\n

Kevin did the family thing, came back home to Baltimore to be a factor at his dream job in The Sun sports department and now he\u2019s gotten the job of a lifetime at WWE and one that he\u2019s richly deserving of and one where he\u2019ll thrive and be the best in the world.<\/p>\n

You should follow him. You should root for him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so proud of him and so happy for him that I could explode.<\/p>\n

I just wanted to brag on my pal, spread his great news and tell him \u201cgood luck\u201d in the most public way that I can because I\u2019m proud of how his hard work has paid off for him.<\/p>\n

And I have a feeling I\u2019ll be watching a lot more WWE and SmackDown in 2012 and pining away for the days of Lord Alfred Hayes and Captain Lou Albano.<\/p>\n

And if somehow they could only bring Bruno Sammartino back into the ring for one night at the old Civic Center!\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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