{"id":4909,"date":"2009-06-11T07:20:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2009-06-11T08:14:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:14:15","slug":"high-and-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"High And Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got to throw out the first pitch at a Saints game last night.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

And as it turned out, one of the councilmen and I might have had a better outing than the Saints’ starter Adam Cox did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 And I don’t mean that entirely as a bad thing.\u00a0 You had to be there.<\/p>\n

I always love going to Saints games.\u00a0 Pretty much everyone there does.\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n

I’ll hope to make it again sometime this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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