Showing posts with label rain delays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain delays. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2013

Slip-Slidin' Away

Last night it rained...

The game will be delayed a bit.
And rained...
On-field host Jon Eddy truly does not
have the sense to come in out of the rain.
And then for good measure it rained some more, only this time really, really hard...

Think we're going to need a bigger boat.
So, while Security Service Field at Mile High looked like a pond...

Hey! There's a wee tarp out in left field.
...the hail was so deep in the North part of the city it looked like a blizzard hit, Manitou waited on a "wall of water" to hit it and the city's weatherpeople got collective chubbies...

With his hand on his hip he's saying,
"I'm a fu*king weatherman! Kneel before my Doppler!"
...leave it to a couple of brave Sky Sox players, Lars Davis and Hernan Iribarren, to save the day by breaking out the tarp-slides!

LARS! No not the one from Metallica, DAVIS!
Lars Davis leaves the building while
Hernan Iribarren sprints onto the tarp!
Safe! And wet!
 photo hernan_slide.gif
Great form! Hernan must have traveled close to 60 feet!
As you might have guessed, the game was bagged. Wet field and stuff. Doubleheader today! At least until the rain returns.

Is Iribarren doing the side-stroke?

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Hot Pants

Baseball pants have changed through the years. From the old, woolen bloomers worn into the 60's...
Nice pants!
Thank you! Nice pants right back to you!
 ...to the super-tight disco pants of the 70's...

Kent Tekulve could watch a double-header and then
dance the night away without needing to change!
...to the baggy, hide-a-turd jobs of today...

Manny being Manny sporting that "just woke up
from a bender/homeless guy look" that's all the
rage with the kids these days.
Some players do sport the old school look...

Aaron Cook from 2011 with the knee-high style.
...and then last night, when the ghost of the 1976 White Sox reared its ugly head and possessed Jordan Pacheco of our Sky Sox:

Um. Jordan. Aah, your pants.
Something's...you know? Wrong...um...
...but we'll give you $10 to wear them
in a game like that. Pleeeeeese!
And are those Elf cleats?!
ELF CLEATS WOULD BE AWESOME!
Rave on Jordan Pacheco!
Let your freak flag fly!
 What do you say dudes from the Memphis Redbirds?

AWESOME! It's the
James Brown Jordan Pacheco Celebrity Hot Tub Party!

Friday, August 9, 2013

The Tarp Kilt

Rain delays suck. I lose my light and the game goes way late into the night for those that have to stay (not saying that I'm one of "those" but I do sympathize with their plight). Good food in the press box makes things less worse, last night things were not less worse, but still, you can only eat so much before that sucks too.

So last night, just before first pitch, here comes the rain to a collective groan in the box. And with the rain comes the damn tarp (games wouldn't be delayed if the infield tarp had never been invented. They'd just call the game and we could escape earlier), but this time with the tarp pull come the scoreboard tease of "The Tarp Kilt"! Hey! Something different! What is this "Tarp Kilt" pray tell?

Sweet! Something to distract us during the rain delay!
Dammit! It's just Hot Dog Brien (Keith on the left) in a kilt
helping to pull the tarp! No braveheart. No Whiskey.
Just Keith in a Kilt. Crap! That is a let down!
Okay. So that went nowhere, how about Jersey Dan? Dan did a little jig and broke out the Jazz Hands on a tarp pull back in June. Would he do it again? You know, just to liven things up a bit? For the boys trapped in the press box?

NO! There are his hands but they ain't Jazzin'!
And that's not a little jig. That's just a sad,
wet man from Jersey standing on a tarp.
The rain finally stopped and they rolled the tarp off the field. By the time the game started I was at Hooters watching the crappy Broncos/49ers preseason game and drinking a Beer(s).

Roll that tarp! Roll it good! Yeeeehawwww!

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Rainy Days and Mondays

Rain tonight. Lots and lots of rain... 

Not tonight's rain. But heavy rain is heavy rain.
A PengoSports file photo of what rain looks like.
...and some Fresno players came out and took photos and video of the approaching storm(s):

"See. That dark thing is called a storm cloud
and the bright, steaky stuff is called 'lightning'."

"What the hell is this stuff?!"
"It is called 'rain'. And it is made of 'water'.
And it can make witches melt!"
Forecast is for more rain tomorrow. But that's okay because Rudy's is the press meal. Nothing beats a rain delay like a good brisket. 

Rudy's BBQ and a rain delay.
If you're happy and you know it...
eat too much!
And now a few more mullets...Because we can.

Billy Ray Cyrus.
From
the Eliezer Alfonzo Day celebrations.
TULO!
From 2010's 'Tulo Stink-Eye Skullet' promo
And here's G-Dirt once again modeling his new and exciting look:

I think we've found our winner!
How about it boys?

           NO.                         COOL.            MATT DAMON!