Chris Snelling arrested! Err.. sort of

I have a couple stories about Snelling that I had recently heard from a friend and Blez asked me to share them with AN, so here they are:

The first was when he first got signed and went to Everett (short-season).  He had just come from Australia and the scout who signed him (I think it was the scout) dropped him off at a hotel and told him he would come by the next day and take him out to lunch and later meet the manager and coaches.  So he is in his hotel room and he wants to call his folks back in Australia.  He tries to call them, but every time he does someone else picks up the phone so he just hangs up.  Eventually he gives up and goes to sleep.  The next morning he is awoken by a knock at his door.  He opens it and it is the police there to arrest him for making prank calls to 911.  Turns out he was dialing something like "0911..." which I guess was his folks number, but of course he had never heard of 911 before.  So he is there in his underwear having been asleep and he is trying to explain to cops what is going on.  He tells them he just came to the United States to play baseball, and suggests they call the team to verify if all.  The cops call the team, but the manager had never heard of him before, so they take Snelling to jail.  Eventually they get in contact with the scout and get it all sorted out, but the kid (he as 17 at the time) was just about ready to go home that night.

The other was when he first got called up to the Mariners.  They tell him that players are required to wear a suit, so the guy goes to like friggin Goodwill and buys some old used polyester leisure suit.  He shows up for the flight and of course the team thinks he is out of his mind.  They had to stop off at a store and buy the guy a real suit so he didn't look like Cousin Eddie from Nation Lampoon's Vacation.

So yeah, he should fit in with the A's just fine.