It was nice, thanks for asking. As much as one would say that there’s nothing like getting dressed up to get drunk (specifically, Hermana Weaselo and one of my coworkers), it’s also nice to be at an event that has no alcohol in it altogether, and the roast beef tea sandwiches were quite nice, as were the pastries. Did Senorita Weaselo take a scone at the end? Of course not, she took several!
What else?
-Got a quick drink with stellar individuals The Maestro and Sharkbait Friday night.
-Sang the bass part during the hymns during the wedding ceremony, dropping the octave where necessary because I had a sore throat from the hotel AC and couldn’t sing anything above G3 or so for most of the ceremony though by the end I was able to push it to the B-flat. Singing in the lower register helped soothe (bottom point of my range is about D2).
-Wandered around Chinatown Saturday night post-wedding, where we wish we remembered the name of the bakery we went to, because they had moon cakes in June, the sweet potato one was really good, and I should have gotten a red lotus cake but didn’t because I was very full from dinner and wasn’t thinking straight as a result.
-Did not get the Celtics championship run pancakes for brunch at the place we went to before going to Fenway Sunday, because I like not being instantly diabetic.
-Watched the GRITSAWX lose on Sunday. In extras! Kinda would have been okay if they walked it off because we would have gotten home a little sooner but it ended up okay, got a guy making his debut by pinch-hitting (Jamie Westbrook) out of it (he walked in the 9th because everyone did until Connor Wong decided to swing at a 2-0 pitch with the bases loaded and Andrew Chafin unable to hit the broad side of a barn and flied out to deep right-center). PS, fuck Manfredball. Also the auxiliary scoreboard had the Twins and Astros flipped, who do I complain to?
-Learned that the green line didn’t have places to get tickets at the station which made things awkward at Harvard Ave until we realized they have their own OMNY system in place, which is probably a better call. Did I get yelled at by Senorita Weaselo about this? Yes. Should I have not made assumptions from 2007? Also yes.
-Had good bubble tea by the ballpark (Ten One Tea House, which I checked is only in MA and RI, and also Taiwan). Senorita Weaselo got the winter melon tea, while I just got a standard brown sugar boba tea.
-Had a cute lunch in Stamford Friday afternoon.
-Drove by one of the Tree House Brewing location Friday afternoon (but didn’t go in, sorry Horatio).
-Found an excellent dinner spot in Westbrook Sunday night.
-Somehow managed to avoid ALL driving tolls, thanks Google Maps!
In conclusion, New England is a land of contrasts. Onto the news!
-Fun times in Cleveland, extensions for coach Kevin Stefanski and GM Andrew Berry!
-CB Cameron Sutton back to the Steelers on a one-year deal.
-Chargers release C Corey Linsley, who will retire due to a heart condition.
-In Fightin’ Redshirts news, they signed a pledge for the class of 2025 from a RB by the name of… Bo Jackson! Obviously not that one, no relation.
Are there sports?
No championship sports, as the NBA Finals (Up in the club like Luka Doncic vs. The team that could have literally sleepwalked their way to the East, especially after everyone on the Knicks died) start Thursday and the super-long-distance Stanley Cup Finals (Operation: Get McJesus and all of Canada a Cup vs. Deeeeefinitely not dirty, Jimmy Vesey’s shoulder was always like that!) start Saturday.
More complaining about Prime (and other baseball)
Twinkie the Kid vs. Arson & John (MIN vs. NYY, 7:05, Amazon Prime)
Tucupita Marcano’s Betting Farm vs. Ippei Mizuhara’s Old Betting Farm (SD vs. LAA, 9:30, FS1)
Oh, the Marble Survival 100 just finished yesterday. If you haven’t been keeping up (and I’m behind a few weeks) now would be a good time to do so and see who wins!
In conclusion, a fair lot of meh. Enjoy this lovely shot of a pole blocking my view of second base!
It’s a good thing there weren’t several plays at 2nd, including stolen base opportunities that I was blocked off from! Other than that, the seats were pretty nice though I should have wandered down as Detroit was scoring 4 in the Manfred inning, and a foul ball caromed starting at our section and bounced over our heads to the back of it in the 5th or so which was cool even if I can’t jump 15 feet to make the play.
The catching a foul ball saga continues!
Yankee Stadium, old and new, Fenway, Kansas City, Anaheim Angels of Greater Los Angeles County Near Disney, the old Vet in Philadelphia, which is as close to hell as I ever hope to get.
Oh, I also saw a game at Cincinnati’s newish stadium, which was very nice other than the thunderstorms.
I’ve been to Wrigley, Oakland Coliseum, Minute Maid Park, and Great American Ballpark. I’ve also been to Riverfront and Arlington Stadium, both parks that are gone.
Only 3. Chase field three times, New Yankee stadium twice, and Dodger Stadium. Though, will be seeing the Yanks at Wrigley in September.
Wrigley was my 50th bday experience, it’s a must. Gotta do Yankee Stadium before I die, tho I wished it were the old one.
Chase was my 5th, and we partied in the Pool Suite. I’d recommend that.
Running a conference at a hotel center north of Venice. This is the mural in the lobby. Lot goin on there.
I don’t want to know what the one in the middle is up to with that dog. And I’m completely weirded out by whatever is happening on the far right! Is that a devil on the roof of the bar? I’m way too high for that mural!
Yeah way too many old ladies with their hooters hangin out for my taste…
Is that spiderman at the top left?
That’s what we are all calling him.
If his first name is Satan, sure!
I am just going to assume that one lady is doing yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FTsy7K5Vhc
Eight decades.
My grandpa jumped out of one of those planes 80 years ago. Still kicking at 101. Still works out in his yard. Still drives. But my old man only lets him drive across town to visit my 94 year old great aunt.
Your gramps is a badass. And a purveyor of the kindest bud.
I got to make the 50th anniversary jump in 1994. A very memorable and somber experience.
Between BoB and Private Ryan, WW2 is well-represented, and boy are we lucky to be Gen X. Also, draft dodgers are cowards. Trump, for example.
Don’t forget us! We’re the only guys who won anything since1945, and we took down the big one without firing a shot and handed it to you on a platter and now look what you’ve done with it. Don’t look to me for help.
You kept Kuwait free!
Also, thank you.
Also, I registered for Selective Service on my 18th birthday and interviewed for a Navy ROTC Scholarship in Long Beach where I met Lt. Napoleon McCallum and decided that no, I’d rather just go to college with no obligation but I would’ve answered the call, at least after a few rings.
Kuwait was after me. I brought down the Soviet Union.
Update, dude stretched out and pulled the arms in, much better, hope it’s permanent!
Look I’m a big fat and generally selfish asshole, but on a plane I try to be a sowbug because OTHER PEOPLE EXIST holy fuck I hate people a lot
The reasons why I no longer enjoy flying commercial. At all. Most people are idiots.
Died at second on the upgrade list but thank Glod I got an aisle seat, the dude in the middle is manspreading like a mofo. Middle seat may get priority on the armrest, but last time I checked that didn’t include shoving your elbows 5 inches past into my ribs or knees taking up half my leg room
Downside is crotch-face proximity whenever someone puts something in the overhead bin
I like an aisle seat on a long flight, you can get up and stretch. I prefer window on a shorter one, I’m a big girl I can hold my pee, and I won’t have to put up with the crotch sniffing grossness of the traveling public.
This is cross-country red eye, and I’ve learned from past experience that sleeping in a window when someone big is in the middle can be awkward. This dude isn’t big, just determined to take up as much of other people’s space as possible!
Otherwise totally agree that windows are the best. Even at night you can see stars!
Middle dude didn’t even get up to let window dude in! He sorta put one leg up on my seat and made dude squeeze through his crotch! Dude!
WTF. Drag him to the exit row and throw him out.
Middle seat gets two armrests. We live in a society damnit!
Fine by me, it’s the elbow going several inches PAST the armrest into my seat, requiring me to lean into the aisle to avoid having my ribs cracked that I object to. The fact that his leg is 90% in my space and only 10% in his also sucks. And what sort of asshole doesn’t get up to let in the window seat? Just because you have a crappy seat that’s no excuse for being a jackass
The way to combat manspreading? Icepick to the scrote.
Yup.
It’s times like these I miss my titanium spork
Saturday’s Footy post will make sense to anyone that’s watched tonight’s México-Uruguay game.
We were right?
Never made much sense to me anyway.
The Big O
The Metrodome
Skydome
The King Dome
New Comiskey
PNC Park
Progressive Field
Coors Field (so wasted I don’t remember)
T-Mobile (Mariners)
Chase Field (with Blax!)
Without question PNC was the best.
It will always be the Skydome. I have no idea about the Rogers Centre
I haven’t been to PNC, I’m a lapsed Yinzer, BUT- not only have I been to many games at Three Rivers, I’m so fucking old I saw several games at Forbes Field.
I’ve also seen games at the Kingdome, Turner Field, the one in Tampa, and the Angels one. I feel like I’m missing a few? We might go to a Dodgers game this season
Cubs
White Sox
Yankees
Mets
Red Sox
Tigers
Reds
Indians
Braves
Rays
Padres
Those are the teams who’s city I VISITED while the team was active
Interpret that how you wish
Are you saying you weren’t forced to attend a Reds/Tigers game? If you can’t speak, push a button on your phone now.
I had a layover in Detroit
See if my addled mind can remember them all:
Fenway
Old Yankee Park
Mets
Montreal Expos at Olympic stadium I think it was called
Roger’s Center
Padres
The old Braves stadium (fuck the Braves)
Both of the Chicago ballparks
And San Fran several times
The appeals court in Georgia postponed the RICO trial indefinitely – March 2025 at the latest – and while I’m irritated, I’m not *that* upset about it. More felony convictions beyond the initial 34 probably won’t move the needle much, and there were plenty of things that could have gone horribly wrong (such as the case being dismissed for some absurd reason, or an acquittal). So I’m looking at it like having your Week 12 game postponed until after the Super Bowl.
Dodger Stadium should be next on your list. That place rules.
Three Rivers
The Vet
PNC Park
Citizen’s Bank Park
(wherever the Natinals play)
Comerica
outside of the stadium in San Fran
Salem Civic Stadium (Salem, VA), home of the Salem Red Sox, AA SAWX AHHFILLAHIGHT
Also, I’ve never even been in the same section as a foul ball.
HOWEVER, Starling Marte’s solo walk-off homer on July 4, 2016 landed three rows in front of me. That’s as close as I’ve ever been.
All this talk of foul just reminding me of this karen:
And the dude who high fives her is also a dick
“But other than that how did you enjoy the ballgame, young woman?”
I’ve caught one foul ball in my life and it was at The Big A. It was against the Oakland A’s and it was a line drive down the right field line at the second level. I stepped in front of my mom to catch it, blocking her catcher-style. It came in hot, so I dropped it on the fly, but I caught it again on the first bounce.
Still have it.
I believe the proper expression is “still got it”. Delivered with a blast of finger guns, of course.
I guess I’ve seen games at 5 parks, and been to a couple more, which is decent considering I don’t really follow baseball. I kind of want to go to a Dodgers game now so I can see all the Japanese fans going nuts for Ohtani
I saw the Orioles play the Athletics (saying “the O’s and the A’s” in a Baltimore accent sounds hysterical) in a night game at Oakland Coliseum in mid-July. I was wearing a parka, gloves, and wool cap.
Y’all all there living your life and I’m just here posting memes…
Where did you find that wonderful picture?
I want you to know you’re the first person I thought of when I saw it
Awwwwwww!
SUCH SINFULNESS SHAME ON Y’ALL BOTH
Man, can I figure out how many baseball stadia I have been to?
Wrigley
Comiskey/”the Cell” or whatever
Yankee Stadium
Camden
Nats Park (also RFK)
Turner Field (I guess this doesn’t count as active anymore….)
Coors Field
The Jake
Rogers Centre
Angel Stadium
Dodger Stadium
Fenway, but just to walk through, I haven’t actually seen a game there yet….
I HAVE to be forgetting some place.
Oh Pac Bell or Oracle Park or whatever
That’s a beauty.
PNC (Pirates)
Camden Yards (Os)
Busch either II or III (#BFIB)
Turner Field (old Braves)
Coors (Rockies)
Wrigley (Bastard Man Small Bears)
Yankee (Old)
Shea (Old)
Denver
Anaheim
Dodgers
Frisco
Oakland
Seattle
Jack Murphy and Petco
Anaheim
Dodger Stadium
Candlestick and AT&T
Oakland
Seattle
Coors Field
Chase Field D-backs
Original Texas Stadium and Ballpark in Arlington
Old Busch Stadium not new
County Stadium in Milwaukee not new
Wrigley
Old Comiskey and New Comiskey
PNC probably my #1 on this list
Citizens Bank Philly
Old Yankee Stadium
Kaufman Field in KC.
Think that’s it.
What’s the drive like from NY to BOS? Is it dependent on departure tune? Can you just take a Quiet Car ACELA thing? Do people ever fly that route? Is this too many questions?
It was a bitch getting out of Brooklyn Friday morning, but other than that, the normal thing is to just take 95 up. HOWEVAH, since this was the toll-free route, it ended up being the Major Deegan to the Sprain to 287, to the Hutch/Merritt/Wilbur Cross up to I-84, then what would be the Mass Turnpike but again, didn’t go tolled, so US-20 instead to take us to our hotel.
Heading back was just 95 until Manhattan, then the FDR, Brooklyn Bridge, and BQE.
You drive diagonally through Connecticut, which is exactly like it sounds
Train. Train is the answer. I flat out refuse to drive to Manhattan. It helps that 90% of the time when I go to the city it’s for Rangers games and theyre right above Penn station.
Speaking of baseball parks, here’s some fun with the 4×5″ Speed Graphic and little Xmas lights. I never put sheet film in it, I just take picture of the ground glass with an iPhone. The lens is a 1943 Kodak Aero Ektar 7-½” f/2.5 reconnaissance lens, built for WWII bombers to take aerial photos of their targets on missions. After the war they were sold as cheap surplus and snapped up for portrait lenses. Wide-open and near-focused they have a depth-of-field thin as a dime, as you can see here:
hey I found a watch!
These are very cool, Brick.
I’ve been to 15 active MLB stadiums and 8 former. Still have work to do on that front.
Only been to five which feels wrong. All current, but one about to be uncurrent (the OAKpit). It’s an absolute crime I’ve never been to SD or SF.
Road trip to, I dunno, Cleveland?
I’ve been to….. two
I’m good
I’ve been to 2 as well. Not sure I’ll see more or not as nae a based balled fan
I guess I’ve been to 3 as I went to the old Jay’s stadium too, the Ex
RFK (D.C.), Nationals Park (D.C.), Memorial Stadium (Baltimore), Camden Yards (Baltimore), “Old” Yankee Stadium (NYC, World Series Game), Shea Stadium (NYC) Dodger Stadium (L.A.), The Big “A” (Anaheim), Petco Park (S.D.), Candlestick Park (S.F.), Oakland Coliseum (Oakland), Oracle Park (S.F., I think it was called PacBell Park when I went), Chase Field (Phoenix)
13! If you live long enough you can rack up numbers like these, just like Cal Ripken Jr., who played in three of the above games on his big streak.
I also drove past the current stadiums in Cleveland and Houston when they were still under construction (the one in Houston at the time was called “Enron Field”)
I think “foul ball” needs a WOKE re-naming. I don’t know why, it just OBVIOUSLY DOES.
That brunch place….my pancreas is frightened
Like any of us know what that sounds like*
/maestro not included
I got a foul ball years ago at Three Rivers. It dropped right in front of me, didn’t even notice it was coming! I gave it to a little kid sitting in front of me
[also “gave it to a little kid”] – Matt Gaetz
I’ve only snagged one foul ball. And that’s only because everyone in my row was in the concourse and the ball rolled down the row to my feet. Gave it to a kid in front of me.