Sandy Koufax and Joe Torre at the Nokia Theatre

On Saturday night, February 26th, T.J. Simers sat down with Sandy Koufax and Joe Torre to talk about baseball at the Nokia Theatre. Torre got Koufax to finally come out of the dark and talk to the public in this event. I attended the event and it was amazing. Koufax is such a calm, wise man but shows signs of humor at times (mainly in response to T.J. Simers' bad jokes) and shed some light on some baseball stories that have been told about him.) They brought up 21-year old left hander Clayton Kershaw pretending he was just some kid and Koufax "taught" him how to throw a curveball. This adds to the belief that Torre thinks Kershaw has the potential to be on a level similar to that of Koufax. It was a great time that I certainly will never forget. Also, Koufax and Kershaw talked on the plane ride back out to Glendale (Torre brought Clayton, hitting coach Don Mattingly, and pitching coach Rick Honeycutt to the event.) about pitching and everything about it. Kershaw is also in line for the Opening Day start. People finally got the public appearance out of Koufax that they always wanted, and was just an amazing evening for all that attended.