Your boss didn't hear about it because of their passive and ambiguous phrasing?
Why Baseball Is Fun, Part 983:
Rookie hazing isn't quite the same when a team loses - the atmosphere is a little less fun and some of the more veteran players always look miffed that there are hijinx going on after a loss, especially like the 14-4 drubbing Oakland absorbed on Wednesday.
There are so many first-year players, though, that they outnumbered the veterans. Alan Embree, one of the suspected costume providers, said that 17 of the A's dressed up in various items of women's clothing on Wednesday.
I'll try to link to some AP photos (see below) when they're available. I know AP's photographer was in the hallway outside the clubhouse, so perhaps there will be visuals of Greg Smith in a skimpy candy-striped nurses outfit (which he wore with great poise) or Dana Eveland in a tight police woman's costume, complete with handcuffs. Carlos Gonzalez got a sailor dress with ribbons on his stockings, and Gio Gonzalez had a Swiss-miss style dress, with ribbons in his hair. Sean Gallagher: French maid. Ryan Sweeney: devil girl. (He ditched the wig, though.)
My personal favorite, however, has to be beanpole reliever Jerry Blevins as Harry Potter's Hermione Granger. So wrong it's right.
The team's youngsters must wear the costumes on the plane to Seattle and into the team hotel. In some years, they're then paraded elsewhere in public.
I asked Aaron Cunningham, who is from Washington state, if he might have friends or relatives meeting him in the hotel lobby, and while wearing a very small cocktail dress of some sort and a blue wig, he said, "Oh, I hope so!'' And he meant it, which is probably the right attitude to have. They don't have much choice in the matter: Their regular clothes were all hidden during the game.
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I can't remember, is the Examiner the conservative paper in town? We have an Examiner here and it is run by a total nutjob.
I can't remember, is the Examiner the conservative paper in town?
Yeah, it's always had conservative endorsements. It's (what's left of) Wm. Randolph Hearst's politics.
Leif and I might have brats instead of chicken though, we both like brats and we have two that need to get used soon.
Mmmm. The place we're going to dinner tonight has an Oktoberfest menu, and one of the items is a choice of wurst (brat-, mett-, or bier-) on a pretzel roll. I might have to get it.
Except I'm starving and they also have kick-ass bourbon-glazed salmon, which is really appealing right now.
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Oh, and tonight's special is a 1/2 rack of ribs. Great. Now I can't decide. It is SO hard being me, y'all!
Yeah, it's always had conservative endorsements. It's (what's left of) Wm. Randolph Hearst's politics.
Ah. Okay. I couldn't remember.
Speaking of local restaurants, LTH Forum is the board's whose F2F I'm going to tomorrow, and they've got a wonderful list of Great Neighborhood Restaurants. Chaihanna, the Uzbek place I'm going to, is being nominated for the new edition of the list, and I hope it makes it (I'll be voting for it!). That's where I got the Polish place to take MFNLaw to earlier this year (Podhalanka on Division--I'm hoping I can take my nephew there sometime this semester).
I finally had a muffaletta. You haters iz crazy!!!! YUMYUMYUM!
Speaking of local restaurants, LTH Forum is the board's whose F2F I'm going to tomorrow, and they've got a wonderful list of Great Neighborhood Restaurants.
Man, those all sound great! I definitely need to go out for more than a weekend next time.
And it doesn't list a place that ChiKat and I went to a few years ago that I want to return to--Carthage Cafe, a Tunisian place on Foster. I want to try some more of the meat-and-veggie dishes next time. I had ejja, which was a great meal, and ChiKat had some hummus and lamb chops.
