The Best Thing About Baseball
My friend St. John invited me to Saturday's Diamondbacks game. I like the idea of baseball. It's all American like apple pie, afterall. But every time I go to a game, I forget one thing.
Baseball is so freaking boring.
Seriously, I was nodding off in the first several innings. It is a sport of sitting and waiting for something — anything — to happen. It's like Waiting For Godot only with beer. And rednecks.
Oh and people worried about your eternal damnation.
That being said, what I LOVE about baseball is the over-saturated advertising the minute you step into the stadium. It's everywhere. Normally, I'd balk at this commercialism but I embrace it because it brings me the sheer joyous entertainment known as the Taco Bell Food Fight!
They pick three people and put them in these cumbersome costumes — a taco, a burrito and a Pepsi® — and have to run from one side of the field to the other, sometimes knocking each other over.
It's like something the Japanese came up with. And you know how brilliant they are.
It. Is. Genius!
Comments
i met my man at a baseball game.
just sayin'... ;)
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Posted by: daniel | April 20, 2008 11:48 PM
I could not agree more. I really WANT to like baseball, but I get bored. My mind wanders and I inevitably miss something which pisses me off and starts a downward spiral. Next $9 beers begin and then I can't find my car.
Posted by: Geggie | April 21, 2008 07:58 AM
You've GOT to love a giant burrito!
Posted by: Curtis | April 21, 2008 10:32 AM
This is awesome!
I'm dying to see the sausage races at a Milwaukee Brewers game!
Posted by: MzOuiser | April 21, 2008 12:31 PM
I really like when they pick three gay guys to run through the showers in the locker room.
Posted by: homer | April 22, 2008 07:06 AM
Here, we get three hot dogs racing each other. Ketchup, Mustard, and Onion.
They cheat, too. But it's fun to watch. After consuming three or four pitchers of beer.
Not that I'd know or anything.
BeLIEve me.
Posted by: Frankie | April 22, 2008 09:33 AM
REALLY? I find live baseball so enjoyable and entertaining. No joke.
I can't really get into televised sports, but I enjoy the hell out of being there to watch, eat, yell, clap, cheer, boo.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks, I don't care if I never get back (what does "never get back" mean?!?!)
Posted by: Mike Lawson | April 26, 2008 09:38 PM
The food fight thing is such a great marketing ploy, and way more fun that the played out Sumo Wrestlers.
Posted by: cb | April 28, 2008 12:16 PM