Great Baseball Road Trip: Part III
Posted on August 13th, 2008 – 6:24 AMBy Michael Rand
Sorry, no food picture today — though we did experience the glory that is the Waffle House, while also enjoying some fine pizza later on Tuesday (thanks for asking. The RandBall Better Half always finds it amusing that we like to tell her everything we had to eat in a given day). Instead, we bring you an image of a scorecard for Cherokee Golf Course in Louisville. We played a fine 9 holes with Rocket and Crentist (even shooting some video). You’ll notice a birdie 3 for us on the exceptionally short Par-4 fifth hole. We also almost birdied 9, which would have given us two birdies in a 7-over round of nine holes, which is not easy to do. Crentist fell apart on 7 when he Mickelsoned four shots from the same exact spot into a sloping green. Rocket fell apart the minute he took the bag out of the trunk.
Afterwards, we drove up to Indy and took in the first of our two Indianapolis Indians games. Fantastic ballpark, though Aaron Boone of Columbus — on a rehab assignment and now seen by us on consecutive nights in different cities — is probably getting a little unnerved by our presence. Best thing ever: Indy has a player named Ronny Paulino, whom we called (loudly) Ron Paul all night. Best thing yelled: “Pretend the ball is higher taxes.”
We made it to a establishment in the Broad Ripple neighborhood, where they catered to our whim to have the Twins/Yankees game shown, just in time to see Delmon Young’s 1.5 Schottie home run that tied the game. Unfortunately, we also saw the Yankees’ big blasts. Bullpen relief. Fast.
Today’s agenda: More bad golf, a daring day-night doubleheader in Indianapolis (2 p.m.) and Fort Wayne (7 p.m.) and, despite the protests of some, likely some Skyline Chili.
30 Responses to "Great Baseball Road Trip: Part III"
How many Schottie’s did ARod get for his blast in the 12th? [Redacted] ARod and all his non clutch HR’s.
We’re all praying for your safe return from Fort Wayne…. Well at least the RBBH is.
We’re all praying for your safe return from Fort Wayne…. Well at least the RBBH is.
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch, Stu is auditioning for Rand’s job…
(muted trombone): wah-wahhhhhhh
RE: bullpen relief. Someone needs to ask Oakland what they want for Huston Street, and hope to Allah that he clears waivers.
RE: auditioning for Rand’s job. No thanks, can’t swear.
Either Stu didn’t get the joke, or I’ve been reading too much BDD…
Houston Street was already claimed off waivers and pulled back by the A’s. I hear Jeff Reardon is available though.
That, or the RBBH demands a cuss-free household.
Missed the joke completely. More coffee should fix that.
Was at last night’s game in shouting distance from A-Rod. Only heard two Madonna references. I respectfully avoided that topic in my heckling, which I instantly regretted during his home run trot. So, you guys can put the loss on me.
Stu: You aren’t the only one. I think I made an unintentional double-entendre
Off-topic
How about China cheating in women’s gymnastics? No one wants to do anything about it because they’re afraid of some kind of backlash from the judges. The Chinese government faked passports in order to win a gold medal with 14 year old gymnasts.
The most telling statistic:
Average weight of the Chinese women gymnasts: Approximately 74 pounds (the smallest one being 4′6″ and weighing 68 pounds!)
Average weight of the U.S. women gymnasts: Approximately 107 pounds
I don’t care how much you argue that gymnastics “stunts growth”…it still can’t stop the inevitable weight gain that comes between age 14 and 16.
Sorry, I’m just annoyed that this kind of crap can happen and the IOC just looks the other way.
/off-topic
/On Dave’s topic
Dave
Bella Karolyi give you a +1. I was just telling the LF that exact thing last night. The one Chinese gymnast looked like she was 11 or 12. The IOC says it has to take accept the fact that China says the girl is 16.
On the flip side, god forbid if the US gymnast cut a few pounds. Maybe she wouldn’t have fallen off the balance beam and wouldn’t have landed on her [redacted] on the floor.
I can’t believe I just broke down Women’s gymnastics. If you’re in hell I hope you have a parka. Damn NBC and all their marketing.
/Off Dave’s topic
If you throw the United Nations in a dryer set on high heat, about an hour later you would have the IOC.
If you throw the United Nations in a dryer set on high heat, about an hour later you would have the IOC.
Can anyone say “fact finding mission”?
What was with the entire U.S. team steping out of bounds in the floor exercise?
And why does NBC need to push broadcasting back two hours on the West Coast so I can’t watch it live? Can’t they take a clue from every other sports broadcast? This delay caused me to accidentally read about Phelps winning two more golds while I was checking the score of the Twins game. Needless to say watching his event twenty minutes later was not very exciting.
Wish I could help, Dave, but I haven’t cared about 14-year-old gymnasts since I was 25.
Wish I could help, Dave, but I haven’t cared about 14-year-old gymnasts since I was 25.
Fair enough.
Brandon, you’ve taken Joker’s place quite well in this conversation.
My 9-year-old, an actual real-life gymnast, was suspicious of the Chinese team as well. The fact that some of them were tinier than her probably had something to do with it.
She also likes the Jonas Brothers, so let’s not read too much into it, but still.
That’s what I love about these 14 year old gymnasts. I get older, they stay the same age.
SI.com isn’t fooled either.
If America really cared about winning, we would have forged our own documents for our 14 year olds. Couldn’t we have brought in Miguel Tejada as a consultant on this?
Way to turn on your country by calling our gymnasts fat, jama.
I’d like to see stats on the average 16 year old female weight of the Chinese since so much has been written about their “progress” as a healthy consumptive nation. Problem is because so many variables are involved I don’t know of any reliable test to test something apparently as easy to test as age other than chopping off a hand and counting rings in the wrist (One surefire deterrent to cheating). One thing is for sure. American gymnasts look alot more like women than girls, and some of them like that gymnast who had such a hard time last night (name unknown) are far prettier than the prepubescent Chinese
I’m looking forward to the Olympic debut of Chinese Gymnast Tossing.
On the flip side, god forbid if the US gymnast cut a few pounds.
Today’s sign of the apocalypse…
The US gymnasts have those xtra pounds in just the right places otherwise that sport would be even more overexposed and boring than it is. Bring on the boxing !!!
My crack about the gymnast was a joke. Or it was suppose to be.
But seriously have you seen how some of them women are built? There light mini Purple Jesus’s. They make TO look like he is out of shape.
“some of them women”
Did Randball migrate south?
Jama, your joke was a joke but I wish the Chinese were trying to pass these girls as women was a joke too. I mean there is a time and a place to be a girl then a woman, but this stuff is a mockery of that. Surely there is an anatomist out there reading in who knows within some range when a girl develops the booties of the Americans. The Chinese have those cylindical stick bodies of very young girls. Fine for young girls but if the Chinese want them only because it’s easier to start and stop a mass in motion (Newton) shame on them
But their Chinese passports say their 16. That proves they are eligible, doesn’t it? A country that abets Darfur genocide wouldn’t fake passports.
Also, I like my gymnasts like I like my scotch. Aged 14 years.
Having only network tv, I just finished watching the US beat Cuba. Good game. Better than most. But I noticed 2 things I’ve seen/heard for years. First, I played the beach game alot when I lived in Ca. and watched many very good players and despite what these vapid announcers are saying, this game is NOT all that complicated. Indoor ball is far more complex but these NBC bu..sniffers make the game sound like chess. It is not.
And secondly (and RandBers must watch the next game to validate this) though these women are awesome athletes ..yet I must say this, but maybe it’s because of years in the Ca. sun and wind so many look like quite the bowser. No offense to them since these same clownish announcers go to great lengths to explain how these women were likely conceived then raised on the beach (ok, I go too far there)…
