My favorite sports blog in Philadelphia is undoubtedly Beerleaguer. The guys on there really know their baseball, and commiserating and cheering with them through the ups and downs of this incredibly ulcer inducing season has been a lot of fun. And a glimpse at the comments in yesterday’s thread could tell you the angst, inherent sarcasm, and exultation of what it’s like to be a Phillies fan better than just about any other writing could. It is borderline poetic. I picked out the ones that told the story from beginning to end as we all experienced it while watching the Phillies coming back from being down 6-0 late in the game and posted them below. Enjoy.
Mind Boggled
I first saw my challenger from a distance, and I must admit that I figured I would win at Boggle easily. No-one shorter than me has ever beaten me at Boggle, and neither has a female. This young lady was both shorter than me and, I’m fairly certain, a female. I had this one in the bag. We went to Rum Bar, which has Boggle to offer its patrons (as well as pretty good drink specials: $3 Dark and Stormy’s on Sundays and 1/2 price Mojitos on Mondays). I ordered a Dark and Stormy, and just then it began to rain outside. Fitting, since I was planning on raining on this young ladies parade with a decisive win.
It was about midway through the first round that I noticed that something was wrong. We had been playing for about a minute and a half, and she had never stopped writing words on her paper. “Probably just trying to psyche me out,” I thought. “Those probably aren’t even real words.” But it was unnerving. It became more unsettling when I realized that they were real words, and I was trailing 33-13 after the first round. “Lucky round,” I told myself, unconvincingly. The next round contained a lot of consonants, and not a lot of points were scored. Then round three, and all hell broke loose. Her hand couldn’t keep up with her mind, as she had trouble writing words down as quickly as she could see them. I was starting to unravel. Seeing her write word after word had thrown me off my game, and the letters all began running together, and I froze. I needed something, anything to call off this game. Hurricane, riot, fire, something had to stop this word massacre! But there was no divine intervention, and after the round, we tabulated scores. 79-19 was the final. Oh, well. I’m better at Scrabble anyway.
Jams Win (Repped by Malia)
Who played Vincent, the boy who shoots Dr. Malcolm Crowe at the start of the 6th Sense?
Young Old and Restless win at O’Neals
What private school in Lower Merion did M. Night attend (and is also the alma mater of Lionel Barrymore and Brian Tierney)?
The Metro Article
In case you missed it yesterday, click “Continue Reading Metro Article” below to read the article I did for the Metro. It had to do with strange Atari games. Here’s some more video game weirdness:
-There was Beat ‘Em and Eat ‘Em, another Atari porno game you need to read about to believe.
-Pac Man, where the ghosts are controlled by crickets.
-Ok, this is downright amazing. An entire website devoted to the dumping of the ET cartridges in the landfill in 1983.
–Custer’s Revenge was one of Seanbaby’s 20 worst video games of all time.
Cubs Win! Cubs win!
Greatest Sentence ever
Harry Kalas: “Rocky Cherry is in the on deck circle.”
Basically anything Harry says for the rest of this game concerning Rocky Cherry will be my new favorite sentence.
UPDATE: I have decided to start the Philadelphia chapter of the Rocky Cherry fan club. Just drop a line in the comment section if you want to join my new club.
UPDATE, PT II: Rocky Cherry just grounded out to first in his first ever ML at bat.
Fun time wasters
First of all, be sure to do your voting on MyFoxPhillys Hot List. Once again, best quizzo is not an option, but I’m gonna let it slide. And oh by the way, Good Dog is totally kicking tail for best burger. Be sure to vote for either the Bards or Black Sheep for best Irish pub!
–Or play the highly addictive Gold Miner.
–“We here at Foobooz love reading Best of Philly almost as much as we love maps. So here is a bit of both.“ Nerd alert.
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
-There is a new white powder called Blow that you put in your drink and has 4 times as much caffeine as an espresso. Blow sent a shipment of their exciting new product to NBC10. Apprently, Blow thinks that Bill Henley and Hurricane Schwartz are the perfect people to plug their new product.
–A new study shows that woman want sex for the same reason guys do, b/c they are attracted to the other person. Major oversight in the study: “Because I was drunk” not an option.
–It was on this date in 1937 that the Marihuana Stamp Act was passed. Marihuana was a deadly drug, popular in the 1930s, that caused teenagers to have sex with jazz musicians and kill their parents with axes. Fortunately, this important legislation closed the market for the drug and it is no longer possible to find marihuana in the United States.
-Is Stairway to Heaven an homage to sweet Satan? Listen and judge for yourself. Warning: Rumor has it that Dick Cheney got his start in politics after listening to this song backwards, so be careful.
Around the Horn, brought to you by Darth Cheney
-Dunno if you guys caught the four part series that the Washington Post did on Dick Cheney last month. A good look at the worst vice president in the history of the nation, and probably one of the worst people in this nation’s history.
-Yeah, I got a little love from D-Mac in PW. The first time the Vatican and quizzo have ever been repped in the same paragraph. (The quizzo storyline in Angels and Demons didn’t make the final cut.)
-Old school hip hop heads must check out the new video from KRS ONE and Marley Marl.
–Bush has decided to to send $20 billion worth of high tech weapons to the Saudi Arabians. I hope this teaches those who would inlict “Terra” on America a harsh lesson: If hijackers from your nation attack us, we will give your nation high tech weapons. But if zero hijackers from your country invade us, we will kill hundreds of thousands of your citizens. Amazing.