Sunday, May 18, 2008

pastime

Still Fresh

  • encased meat products
  • replacing the words "home team" with "Cubbies"
  • ethnic cuisine
  • generic spicy music playing when Hispanic guys walk up to the plate
  • rhythmic clapping with the guy who beats the war drum at Progressive Field in clutch situations
  • calling guys on your team "pussy-arm fag fuck" when they screw up (add "chili-shitting" if the player is Hispanic)
  • designated driver registration for a free nonalcoholic beverage
  • ballparks that have shit to do other than watch baseball
  • Bob Wickman pump-up intro video
  • $30 parking
  • Asdrubal Cabrera's pearl necklace
  • sell-out crowds
  • Wrigley rooftops
  • FOBs at the ball game
  • the stainless steel standing counter behind the Mezzanine at Progressive Field
  • the disappointment on people's faces at the moment that they realize that their guy only had warning track power
  • pretty girls wearing skimpy fan gear
  • fat chicks wearing skimpy fan gear

Getting Tired

  • chicks with bad skin wearing skimpy fan gear
  • hot dog race
  • Which hat is the baseball under?
  • Yankee hate (unless it's directed at A-Rod)
  • all-you-can-eat seats
  • scalpers who ask you if you have tickets and actually mean it
  • bums who chill outside the ballpark with signs that say "Hungry. Please help. Go [team name]!"
  • fireworks during day games

Played

  • guys playing on the name "Fukudome" when jeering the Cubs' opponents, then thinking they're clever
  • tainted draft beer
  • Kids Fun Day at Progressive Field
  • Kiss-cam
  • Flex-cam
  • showing up in time for the first pitch
  • staying til the end of the game
  • *CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP...CLAPCLAP*
  • guys who show up to the game wearing Browns gear then get into a fight with guys who show up to the game wearing Steelers gear
  • guys who show up to the game wearing Buckeyes gear then get into a fight with guys who show up to the game wearing Michigan gear
  • Hang On Sloopy at the Indians game
  • the wave
  • everything about Yankee Stadium
  • "Let's go [two-syllable team or player name], let's go! *CLAP CLAP*"
  • kids being allowed at baseball games
  • throwing back the home run ball hit by someone on the other team
  • Grady's Ladies

3 comments:

Garchem said...

"Let's go [two-syllable team or player name], let's go! *CLAP CLAP*" will never get old. it's a classic. just like "Leeeeeet's Goooooo Bears *CLAP CLAP CLAP*" a NRHS/Michelle Bryant classic. you know what's also played out - watching baseball. it's all about LeBron right now. Baseball is soooo October '08. Basketball is now '08. Until we lose the game today to the Celtics. Then basketball is out and baseball is in again.

Solomon said...

I believe it was actually "Geeeeet the shoe *CLAP CLAP CLAP*"

Garchem said...

that too. they weren't very creative. same structure, just different words.