Just to be clear: Roy Halladay and I didn’t know each other well, just in passing and mostly through my two best friends, but when a two-time Cy Young winner and eight-time All-Star went to your high school, you let people know.
A typical conversation goes like this:
Someone: You’re from Colorado. Where?
Me: Denver area.
Someone: Where did you go to high school?
Me: Arvada West, the home of Roy Halladay.
Halladay, 40, was killed Tuesday when the small airplane he was piloting crashed into the Gulf of Mexico near Holiday, Fla.