Please allow us one more indulgence before returning to regularly scheduled programming. We thought it was only fair to give Beloit — the last stop on the Great Baseball Road Trip that trekked back to the Twin Cities on Saturday — its fair shake. We’ll even do it in handy point-by-point form:

1) Ordering a meal at a certain burger/custard shop is not as simple as it sounds. And if you get the mixed custard item with peanut butter and hot fudge, you might as well just mark yourself down for a one-hour nap.

2) The folks at the ballgame in Beloit like to — if we can create a word — concess. We’ve never seen a crowd so keen on the eating and drinking portion of a ballgame. We’re not saying it’s a bad thing. Just saying it’s true. On the bright side, it leads to several eating and drinking options for visitors, including a better standard beer selection than you will find at some Major League parks.

3) Ben Revere did not play. The Snappers were routed. Also, we just missed Alexi Casilla’s rehab stint. Woe is us.

4) Beloit’s stadium has a “seat falling off” problem. Three times during the game, in our section only, we saw blue seats detach from their homes (often times in response to some sort of horseplay from one of the 8 million energetic youths on hand) and tumble down the stairs.

5) Free fireworks after the game. Always a nice touch.

6) Overheard at the game: “No, my boyfriend is not in jail. He’s here at the game tonight.”

7) There is an upscale restaurant in Beloit called Cafe Belwah (you know, like the French pronunciation of Beloit).

Overall trip totals: Exactly 7 days (168 hours), from 10 a.m. Saturday the 9th to 10 a.m. Saturday the 16th; 8 baseball games; 2,300 miles driven; 27 holes of golf; 5 games bowled; 10 points of cholesterol raised (estimated); one good time had (awwww).

Fasola-link! The bad boy of badminton.

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