TAKE ME, OUT, TO THE BALL GAME: Followup to last week's item -- no, the Cardinals didn't show any same-sex couples on the Kiss Cam last Saturday, but the controversy continues.
Wholly unrelated baseball question -- nickname for the Phillies' playoff pitchers: H20, or Two Roys and the Boy?
added and vaguely related: How about takeout at the ballgame? New Phillies iPhone/iPad app -- order food from your seats, and it's delivered within 30 minutes.
<span>nickname for the Phillies' playoff pitchers</span>
ReplyDelete"The Well-Deployed Benefits of an Unlimited Payroll"?
There are limits; we're not the Yankees. Otherwise we'd still have Cliff Lee, and might keep Jayson Werth next season.
ReplyDeleteThe pitchers should be nicknamed "Hall & Oates-walt."
ReplyDeleteHasn't Seattle had the seat delivery option for awhile? When my husband and I were there on our West Coast Ballpark trip, you could order with your Nintendo DS.
ReplyDeleteHave any of the ballparks gotten around to installing WiFi for the seats yet? Because that would be awesome right there.
ReplyDeleteH2O, definitely. Relatedly, when I went to a game a couple weeks back, the Phanovision camera showed two kids wearing Cat-in-the-Hat style t-shirts that said, instead of "Thing 1" and "Thing 2," "Roy 1" and "Roy 2."
ReplyDeleteBest. Thing. Ever.
I don't hear too many people complaining about giving up Cliffy these days.
ReplyDeleteOkay, he's pitched poorly in Texas. You wouldn't have taken that first half of Cy Young-caliber pitching?
ReplyDeleteMoreover, I'm positing a universe in which we had kept Lee and still acquired Oswalt.
ReplyDeleteNo, my point was simply that nobody seems to be complaining much about it anymore, now that Lee has been hurt and less effective (albeit likely in some ways a victim of park effects). Until we got RoyO, the Lee deal was just about all anyone in these parts would talk about when discussing the Phillies, and it was rarely from the pro-Ruben Amaro position (which never seemed to hold much water as expressed). I'm still very much of the opinion that we could have and maybe should have held onto Lee -- at this point, though, hindsight makes it look like we haven't missed him.
ReplyDeleteI like the universe Adam posits, but I'm not sure we can have any confidence that with a then-healthy (was he?) Lee, we'd have made the run at Oswalt. With a hurting Lee, sure, but that scenario probably would have driven the Astros' price higher.
I'll play the curmudgeon and say that when I go to a baseball game I go to watch baseball live, not because it's a giant outdoor restaurant. If it cuts down on the number of times everyone around me has to get up and squeeze by me to get food, then I suppose I could get behind it.
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