Those moments that stop you cold, you've experienced them. Hearing the news that Willie McCovey had died was one of those moments for me.
I received the news via text from a colleague, and I immediately went to social media hoping it wasn't true. Sadly, it was.
I just sat for a bit. I sat and thought about what Willie McCovey meant to me.
He was this unbelievably popular and larger-than-life figure for so many Giants fans, but to me, he was just Willie. I didn't grow up watching him play. I grew up hearing about him.