See that over there? On the right? That’s the Golden Slurpee. Nice, isn’t it? We’ll come back to that in a little bit.
This morning, I wake up, and turn on the TV, and discover the Mariners / Indians game is on TV.
So, top of the sixth, and the leadoff batter is Adrian Beltre. He takes the first pitch down the left field line, fair ball, and as it heads into the corner a fan reaches over the fence along the line, with a mitt on one hand, and a cellphone firmly attached to his ear in the other.
And the ball skips out of his mitt and skitters away. Since a fan interfered with a live ball, it’s a ground-rule double. No problem so far, and no real harm done in the game, since Beltre was very likely going to pull into second with a double anyhow. But here’s what makes it Chez Fred-worthy:
They go back to the guy who interfered, who is now pleading with the cop there for security to toss him the ball that he muffed. To his credit, the cop ignores him. And the guy sits back down, visibly miffed that this cop is denying him a souvenir.
And through this ENTIRE incident, the cellphone never once leaves the guy’s ear.
So, it is with great fanfare that I present the first winner of the Golden Slurpee, Chez Fred’s new “You Just Suck” award, now sponsored by our friends at 7-Eleven.
That guy is the reason that baseball is ruined. If you want to waste your forty bucks by talking into a telephone for three hours, I suppose that’s your business, but people like that shouldn’t even bother. Good on the cop to ignore him.
In any event, I am duly impressed by your GIS-fu.