The upcoming Joe Mauer-Maddie Bisanz marriage won't be any 72-day travesty, according to a Cretin-Derham Hall classmate who graduated with them in 2001.
"This is a marriage meant to be," said Kevin Block, who told me Tuesday that he was in the same homeroom as Bisanz. Block foresees the Twins catcher and the nurse having a marriage that goes the distance.
Asked if he ever noticed any fireworks between Mauer and Bisanz in high school, Block said: "They were going out a little bit in high school. Then they kind of took a break when Mauer got drafted, and now he's proposed to her.
"She's a really nice person. Nice gal. Kind, sweet. They make a good couple."
Block said he works as a pharmacy technician, preparing IVs, at the same hospital where Bisanz (pictured) is employed. It's a big hospital and he only remembers running into the future Mrs. Mauer once there.
He also saw her at their "10-year reunion this last summer. [Mauer] had a baseball game."
Block wrote a glowing guest blog about Mauer for CatholicMatch.com after its editor learned Kevin went to high school with Joe.
In the blog, in which he wrote about what a nice guy Mauer is, Block "mentioned Maddie in September," editor Christina Ries told me Tuesday.