That’s My Boy, World Series Game 1: Ball Played
October 26, 2016Grandma and the Series
October 26, 2016Editor’s Note: Much like yesterday, this column was filed before ESPN ran a piece that included some love to Waiting For Next Year. As you should read every piece that discusses last night’s incredible experience, this one should be one of the first. Many thanks to Kevin Van Valkenburg for the nod.
It’s a switcheroo on the WWW this week. Here I am on a Wednesday instead of a Friday…
From the moment last night’s sports-related festivities began in Cleveland it was near waterworks in my household. Watching the Cavaliers get their rings and listening to LeBron James speak to all of Cleveland while shouting out his neighbors competing for the World Series was emotional from the jump. After my kids’ bathtime I rewound the ring ceremony for my six-year-old to watch it with me and it was all I could do to keep it together while explaining everything that was happening. With the children finally in bed and as Corey Kluber struck out his first batter faced, I could barely contain myself anymore. It took the pungent stench of puppy fart to drag me back to reality as one of my dogs, nestled up to my chair fouled the otherwise pleasant air.
The Indians soon forced me to forget the fart as they secured a 2-0 first-inning lead. Just incredible and that’s where the play-by-play stops. Thankfully Bode had the recap last night and I’m just taking his spot on WWW this morning. So yeah. While We’re Waiting…
The Cleveland Indians Won Game 1 of the 2016 World Series!
Three more games is what the Cleveland Indians need to secure their place in Cleveland sports immortality. It’s one game and the Indians showed that they could do against the Cubs what they’ve done all post-season, at least for one game. You have to keep that in mind at all times, but it’s better to say “it’s just one game” after a win than after a loss. You know the Cubs are saying the same thing this morning, but that won’t help relax the ever-tightening grip they’re squeezing on their bat handles.
Three more. That’s what the Indians need. That feels possible for the Indians this morning, but it’s just one game. The Indians actually have to find a way to do it with starting pitchers not named Corey Kluber. Even in defeat the Cubs bats looked dangerous. Long fly balls high off the walls – bat flips and all – could easily have gone out and forever changed the momentum of the game and injected confidence into a lineup that has had plenty to spare all season long.
The twists and turns of pressure-packed playoff baseball are phenomenal folks. I don’t know if you’d remembered, but I had not. It’s been a long time since I was a freshman at Boston University watching the 1997 World Series in my dorm without so much as a single other Tribe fan to be found. I was 18 then, and now at age 37 it’s been more years since than I’d been alive the first time I experienced World Series baseball. Crazy stuff folks, and it’s just begun.
Your weekly moment of soccer zen…
Back heel pass…
Music of the day…
I don’t know why this one was stuck in my head after the World Series game, but it was. It has kind of an ominous title, but it’s one of the happiest sounding songs Alice In Chains ever did, before the chorus, that is. Whatever, we’re going with it because it’s late and I’m tired.
Indians need to do it again today, rough weather or not.
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It’s a pretty cool day to be in Cleveland and at WFNY!
Oh, and the Warriors were blown out!
AIC!!! Now we’re talkin.
Dedicated to all my Cubbies friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r80HF68KM8g
Don’t forget on November 2 we get a free taco at Taco Bell thanks to Lindor’s stolen base.
Puppy farts are the worst. Let’s hope that the Indians continue to puppy fart on the Cubs’ coronation.
Last night was the best way to cap off my 43rd year of breath in this world. I believe Bauer will punctuate the first day of my 44th on the right note.
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Happy birfnday!
Blown out by puppy farts?
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HOW DID YOU KNOW????
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Happy 5th anniversary of your 39th birthday
But those puppy farts were lucky. Craig… make sure to give your dog all the peanut butter, chili, and McDonalds cheeseburgers his/her little heart desires. If you care about the Indians at all, you’ll make it happen.
Well Lunch will have to update the WFNY dead pool. No offense, but I had a LOT of money riding on you not making 44 years. I mean, I was sure the Browns themselves we’re taking off 30 years of your life.
Plus those candied bacon-wrapped, bacon-bites (with extra salt added) I’ve been sending over to your office…
Well, I guess it’s best to be magnanimous and say Happy Birthday!
Exactly two times a year, I have this weird notion that, “Hey Taco Bell sounds good.” The sensible part of my brain is completely jammed up, and I’m pulled in by a tractor beam. 30 minutes later, I vow to never do this again and hate myself.
Nov 2, my post-Bell hate will be directed to Lindor.
Thanks! http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4nztnYFF31qincl3.gif#aw%20shucks%20gif
(But it’s actually only the 4th anniversary of that birthday, being the 5th anniversary of my 38th – but then that gets us into sticky realms of whether we should count the actual day of someone’s birth as a “birthday,” which only seems logical and semantically correct . . . . Head spinning yet?)
Totes obvs.
The question is whether I have to complete 44 years, or just make it to the 44th year. You’re going to need a ruling.
And those bacon bites are okay, but I find that deep-frying them in an extra coating of marshmallow gives them a little something that they are missing. Try to remember next time, please.
November 2nd is scheduled to be game 7.
Not sure how that works into the WS narrative, but I’ll drive to every Taco Bell in town for Lindor tacos if it somehow tips the karmic scales in our favor.
Fair enough. Ok, let’s say if you make it past the stress and anxiety of October baseball, we’ll call it a survival. And if you don’t, well we will all miss you but will be very happy that we crowd funded and took out a major life insurance policy.
Is that what we’re calling the Spurs minus Duncan?
happy belated birthday (?) …
But see, today is just my 43rd birthday, so if I make it through the entire next year, then I will have made it through 44. The next 12 months are critical. And for the record, I have no expectation of making it. In fact, that gets me thinking . . . . I need to get into this pool. You say I need to contact Lunch to get my bet in? Kids’ college fund is solved!
1 down , 3 to go … go get ’em.
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Can’t believe everyone remembered!!! On their own!!
(Birthday’s today. Thanks! No cards, please. Cash is fine, though.)
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Don’t worry. As lawyer and trustee, I will see to their education. I will also make sure Mrs. Owen keeps a shrine to you. And that I will take no more than 25% of the proceeds. Rest in peace, prince…
(we’ve somehow turned your birthday celebration into an estate planning session!…damn.)
I thought that was what reporters called Pops interview answers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGTFkMchZI
I don’t see how it wouldn’t tip the karmic scales in our favor
Happy Birthday, I would have got you something, but the Browns honoring your request to strive for 17 QBs in 2016 meant that you had everything you need.
Let’s hope that the Tribe can take care of business in less than 7 then.
/Runs off to get some Pepto, just in case…
I call dibs on his zubaz.
I am disturbed by the fact that I like this.
AIC’s “Unplugged” special is hands down the best out of that entire series
No worries. I’ve done nothing to this point in the realm of “estate planning” or “retirement” or “savings accounts” or “not lighting my cigars with hundos and then throwing away my lit cigars.” In fact, keep the discussion going. I’m taking notes. This is good stuff I’ve never thought about.
And besides, I somehow turned a conversation about the Indians winning Game 1 of the World Series and the Cavs hanging their championship banner into a story about me, so this all seems . . . appropriate.
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So true. I’m a lucky man.
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We need to figure out a way to work in sitting in a frozen port-a-potty during the Battle of Stalingrad, just to keep things in perspective.
When I had my physical for my life ins, the lady asked her series of questions including “Have you ever consumed alcohol to the point of blah blah…or have you ever been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous?”
Smartass me, “Well it wouldn’t be anonymous then would it?”
(pan to stone faced lady)
“I’m a Cleveland Browns fan…”
(still finding zero humor in me and now loathing me)
“No. Never.”
We’ll split them.
Yeah. I want to upvote it, but I don’t want to be on record as upvoting it.
Of course, now I’m on record as wanting to upvote it. Which has got to better than actually upvoting it, no? (This stupid election cycle is really messing with my head.)
complete agreement. they happened to be a personal favorite right at that time and that set was incredible
Sorry, guys. My will (i.e., cocktail napkin with crayon writing – and 2 witnesses) has me being buried in them. Graduate from OSU and get your own Zubaz.
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Tacos!
No, you don’t want Pepto. You want to get that stuff through your system as quickly as possible.
Good reminder to always remember that the doctor works for you and not the other way around. Plenty of questions they ask you do not need to answer.
Doctor: “Have you ever had homicidal thoughts?”
Me: “In the last 30 seconds?”
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Doctor: “Have you ever had homicidal thoughts?”
Me: “Not today.”
Doctor: “What?”
Me: “Well, now I have to change my answer.”
It’s simultaneously a pollutant and a cleanse. It’s like the soon to be trendy e-coli diet.