See what happens when somebody asks for help and somebody like Ritchey  listens?

Team Humanity you did good.

Keep It Up.

TED WILLIAMS- HOMELESS MAN WITH A GOLDEN VOICE

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RITCHEY’S CHANNEL

Throwing this video from the Columbus Dispatch out there, hoping we can find this talent a place to call home.

UPDATE-1: Many thanks go out to all of you who have been tossing phone numbers and e-mails my way for Ted’s sake. I went up to Hudson/I-71 (Columbus) today, but Ted wasn’t there. He is going to be on air tomorrow morning on radio station WNCI. I’ve left my contact info w/WNCI to call/e-mail me on a way to get your enormous opportunities over to him.

I’m going to give him a Trac phone (w/ample minutes) so that he can return calls to all of you.

Hopefully, in some way I’ll get in contact w/him. Peace.

UPDATE-2: To all of those who have been writing in I have learned that the radio station interviewing him tomorrow (1-5-11) a.m. is going to make him a formal offer. Whether true or not, we’ll see.

Hope it works out well for him. That was the whole point of me posting this video. I cannot thank enough everyone who was willing to do their part in offering Ted their helping hand.

Whoever lands him is certainly getting much more than a memorable personality; they’re getting a great human being as part of their team.

My best to all.

UPDATE-FINAL: Well everyone. You can give yourselves and Ted a high-five. He’s being given offers hand-over-fist over the air. He’ll be set for life.

My request to all. Whenever you run across a story such as this, don’t assume it’ll take a life of its own, on its own. It won’t. It can’t. There are too many other stories that drown out the one before it.

You need to spend time to get that story and its word out to many. If you care, you’ll do it.

Keep the faith, pay forward and always lend a hand; even if you’re the one who needs it.

God bless Mr. Williams. I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of him for sometime to come.

Ted and His Mom Reunited:

I have a skeleton named Edgar who sits in a chair by my living room window.

I’ve let people assume, over the years that I named him after Poe- but I didn’t. I named him after my favorite Seattle Mariner, Edgar Martinez.

I bought Edgar from an on-line business called the Anatomical Chart Company they provide  high-quality anatomical models, charts, books for classrooms. However, Edgar was flawed so he ended up at Anatomical’s sister company Bucky’s Boneyard.

Bucky’s is where the less then perfect skeletons and skulls and bones go on to serve a greater purpose- they are sold as Halloween decorations.

I, on he other hand keep Halloween in my heart year round so I actually bought Edgar and had him delivered to me at work during the Spring. And no, I did not take him out of his box and show him off.

However, I did pop the lid off and showed him off to my friends on the bus ride home.

 Edgar is a model- had he been in better shape he would be used in a classroom somewhere and had a nickname like ‘Slim’, but he’s not a real skeleton.

I never thought about what it would take to buy a real one, the idea had never occurred to me until I watched a show called Oddities and one of the episodes was about a musician who wanted a real human skeleton to use for a prop on stage.

After the show was over, the person who used to work with the dead won out of the person who writes about the dead and has a fake skeleton and a jar of fake eyeballs on her bookshelf and she said-

” That’s just wrong. “

I keep asking myself why I feel that way- and I’m not getting an answer.

Not a convincing one.

So if you were me, would you buy a real human skeleton and sit it on a chair next to your living room window and name it after your favorite baseball player?

Would you?