I got to throw out the first pitch at a Saints game last night.
OK – I got to throw out one of five or six first pitches; the Saints brought a guy who does a club-hopping show on the local CW affiliate, three Coon Rapids city councilpeople (the city was celebrating its fiftieth birthday last night) and me to the mound. For a guy who hasn’t thrown a ball in anger in probably eight years, I did OK; it would have been high and outside for a lefty, and a near-beaner for a right-handed batter, but I didn’t have to bowl the ball across the plate, and the catcher didn’t have to bolt for it like he was going for a foul, so I was pretty happy.
And as it turned out, one of the councilmen and I might have had a better outing than the Saints’ starter Adam Cox did.
We were followed by the usual Saints game events, and a woman singing the national anthem – one “Andrea”, a bartender from Somerset – who did a version that’d have sounded good, I kid you not, in a strip club. And I don’t mean that entirely as a bad thing. You had to be there.
I always love going to Saints games. Pretty much everyone there does. I saw a few people from the neighborhood, some Patriot fans (AM1280 is one of the Saints’ sponsors this season, again), and the usual Saints game crowd (although I didn’t see Bill Murray).
I’ll hope to make it again sometime this season.
Sweet! Betcha felt kinda like Kevin Kline in that scene from “Dave.”
Hah!
That, and Alan Shepard just before launching in The Right Stuff…
it would have been high and outside for a lefty, and a near-beaner for a right-handed batter
So you’re bringing the high heat to a righty, not a lefty? Deluge of Anti-Strib comments about you really being a pinko-liberal sympathizer in 3, 2, 1 ….
Congrats, that must have been fun.
“Deluge of Anti-Strib comments…”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Always a good way start to any joke, NW.
I would throw in a few LOLs but that would be considered “insensitive” by A-S “standards”.
Oh what the heck, let’s not let SitD jump the shark.
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Bwwwaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Pen,
Yep. Big fun. I think my dad got a kick out of it; he was a Saints fan when he was a kid and they were the closest “big” team to North Dakota (and part of the Cubs’ farm system; Dad has a Saints poster with a young Don Zimmer on the roster. From 1948. I’m probably the last of his kids he’d have expected to pitch in a single-A park!
Krod,
Shark is good eatin’.
Night,
Now you’ve done it.
It’s a dangerous hobby, Mitch.
😉
Impotence is nothing to laugh about.
Um…OK?
I am on record as a big baseball fan. I can think of nothing further removed from “pinko-liberal sympathizer” than a major league ball team.
Just sayin.
Kermit, the Twins still play at the dome.
Not in March, not for long.
I had pizza for lunch.
Mitch,
I have a lose association to the Saints myself. I grew up a ChiSox fan, and LOVED Bill Veeck, who’s son Mike help to start up the Saints. Always felt Veeck had the right of it when he said:
“It’s not the price of stardome which is killing baseball, it’s the price of mediocrity”
– which I think is fair. When stars perform well, you draw, but having to pay some utility infielder 6 Million/year BECAUSE you pay the star, and because some other idiot paid HIS utility player $5.8 Mill, that really hurts the mid to small market teams. He also understood it’s entertainment, and feel Mike has shown a better grasp of that than the often-moribund Twins.
Gordo? Gordo, I have to urinate.
Since when are the Saints a Major League ball team?
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Pen,
Both Veecks were among the greats. Mike was also a great St. Paulite when he lived here, contributing a lot to the community.
Krod,
Again – huh?
dangerous?