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Time: 7:15 Central. Vegas Line: if you’re betting on this game you might really think about taking your gambling jones down just a notch
Weather: 76° at first pitch, It Looks Like Rain
Opponent’s excellent SB site: Royals Review
TV: FSN. Radio: yeah, maybe, depends on sky gods
This is the gamethread, with a photo of the only backyard plant I didn’t manage to kill this summer.
I had a whole thing based on fantastic comments by 2wins87 and BeefMaster, which was going to be a separate post, but I lost it.
Previous siterunners have told me that when I have a halfway decent intro bit, I should make game intros into a separate post. It’d help them with daily post numbers and what not (reasons these siterunners quit siterunning). So I tried. I wrote it yesterday, attempted to make it a separate post today, it got deleted, whoops. Ain’t gonna type it twice.
Basically, the history of champagne celebrations is expressed best by this excellent Arash Markazi article. It’s a great article, check it out. Apparently, live footage of Harmon Killebrew getting beer showered by teammates (a devout Mormon, Killebrew was no drinker) inspired pretty much every team that followed to do the same dang thing and waste perfectly good bubbly/beer by spraying it everywhere. Once it’s been on TV, though, it’s a thing, everybody’s gotta do it.
Here’s 1965 Twins broadcasters Ray Scott and Halsey Hall in a beer ad. Forgive the first few seconds of distortion; you’ll love the end of it, I promise.
Actually, I’m not too tiffed that intro got lost, this version had the same in less words. Yay computer effups! And thanks BeefMaster/2wins87 even if you have no idea what I’m referring to here!
Bring on the Ronald Torreyes: