The only friend of Sonny’s that I met was Virgil. So, tell me why they were after me?”“It seemed that Sonny got friendly with Carlo. They were d...ing business together before you came into the picture. Sonny had a big gambling debt, so he contacted Carlo. Sonny promised Carlo he could move his stuff quickly, if Carlo would help him cover his gambling debt. Carlo saw a great opportunity to move the goods, so he agreed. At first they were using your restaurant as a front...”“What? A front! How. .. even invincible. Thanks once again, Girls}We had one heck of a practice today. Though we didn’t dress out in pads, we worked out and ran through some new plays the coaches had dreamed up over the summer. Even though I knew my Angels have been working on Jimmy, with his body, his mental skills and his personality, I was amazed at the transformation in him. He’s two inches taller, but built like Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots. He can run like an antelope, catch anything within arms. There were some awkward times when I showed up where she and her date were or she and her date walked into someplace where I was. I was always alone when those things happened because even though Tanya hadn’t committed to me I had committed me to her. I fully expected that we would be a fully committed couple as soon as she finished school.Can you spell STUPID? I got my rude awakening at a party at Jake Elrod’s house. Talk about irony. It was at a Jake Elrod party that Tanya and I first hooked. Well, I wasn't proud. If wearing goggles could help keep me from getting effectively blinded by a pitched ball, I'd damned well wear goggles.But after trying a wide variety of the things, I found that most of them would fog up, or the lenses were of unreliable quality and would negatively affect my vision.Finally, I found some thick, ugly black rubber goggles that protruded almost an inch in front of my eyes. The lenses were terrible, but I just removed the damned things entirely and stared out.