Wonderboy Rules All
Major League bats are cool, but come on, this is the mother of all bats.
The brilliant Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing and SBNation does a masterful job of capturing the zeitgeist in Oakland against the backdrop of today’s news:
Beane: /punches buttons on calculator
Beane: /punches buttons on calculator
Calculator: /has no batteries
Beane: /sighs
Phone: /buzzes
Phone: pujols 2 angels
Beane: /sighs
Phone: /buzzes
Phone: cj 2 angels
Beane: /sighs
Beane: /stands up
Beane: /opens office window
Beane: /leans out
Beane: /looks down
It’s funny because it’s true.
Major League bats are cool, but come on, this is the mother of all bats.
I’m a little late on this story, but I’m telling it anyway – last week, I was listening to the Arizona radio broadcast of Game 5 of the NLDS between the Brewers and the Diamondbacks, and I suddenly realized that it was an almost certainty that Bob Uecker was calling play-by-play on the Milwaukee feed. I cursed myself for a fool and switched the feeds.
And what a fool I was. I tuned in just in time to catch the Brewers win it in walk-off fashion, and, more importantly, I tuned in in time to hear the Ueck conduct a post-game interview with Ryan Braun (or whoever). Which meant I tuned in in time to hear Uecker’s interview questions be repeatedly interrupted by a drunken fan yelling “UUUUUECK! UUUUUUECK! UUUUUUUECK! WE DID IT!!!! CHAMPIONSHIIIP!! F’IN’ A!!!! UUUUUUECK!” and so on.
And Uecker? Just went with it. Even chatted with the guy a bit. As though a drunken fan interrupting the celebratory radio summation of the franchise’s first postseason series victory in almost thirty years was the most normal thing in the world, and possibly a planned part of the festivities. Heck, maybe it was. It was awesome. Bob Uecker is awesome.
P.S. I was a little dismissive in my post of the other week, but I’ve since come around a bit on the point I made there. It now occurs me to that in the Major League extended universe, the one in which Harry Doyle was a failed Major League catcher who went on to become a successful radio play-by-play man, and possibly starred in a 1980′s sitcom, and was possibly choked by Andre the Giant in a backstage interview segment at Wrestlemania III, that Harry Doyle? I would be honored to own his officially-licensed faux-autographed bat. Available here: http://www.reelbats.com/uploads/Image/ML-HarryDoyle-800.jpg
Hint hint.
“If you could own the bat belonging to only one character from Major League, which one would it be?”
http://www.reelbats.com/major-league
And it’s not much of a question, really. If you don’t pick Pedro Cerrano’s bat, and then keep it warm with one of those golf club cap things, then mister, you and I will never understand each other.
Gracias.
Season Recap
Baseball is amazing, you guys.
For example, tonight this man is a hero. And that is amazing.
That is all.
(Except for Brian Fuentes. He is less amazing.)
