Last weekend, I spent a lot of time in bars, watching baseball. Not exactly optimum weekend activity, but at least the weather wasn't that nice. I don't have a TV so I had to make do, watching the Red Sox play the Yankees at Cato's, Ben & Nicks, and Barclay's.
On Sunday, the Sox-Yanks game was on at 5 p.m. -- prime no-other-sport watching time. Except on this Sunday, Barclay's had advertised they were showing the NBA and NHL playoffs. So after 2 and 1/3 innings of the game, they switched over to a hockey game. Right when Manny Ramirez was coming to bat.
Red Sox fans can be some of the worst people on the planet -- just a bunch of very white, very entitled jackasses braying like donkeys who think they rule the world. So naturally, they went nuts, whining and moping and saying they would take their business elsewhere. It was embarrassing, really. If they were too stupid to check the other games that were on at that time, then they got what was coming to them.
About 10 minutes later, some guy behind me was moaning to a girl who just walked in. "Did you hear what happened?" he said. "My friend just called to say the Sox hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs."
I turned to him, unable to keep my mouth shut. "Your friend is putting you on," I assured him. "There's no way."
"Well, I guess…" he said.
Come on, the chances of the same team hitting four home runs in a row is, like, one in a million. Or, as it turned out, according to a mathematician, one in 1.4 million. And the chance that JD Drew, who connected after Manny and Mike Lowell and before Jason Varitek, would do it two sequential years, after being involved in 4 homers in a row with the Dodgers last year? One in 14 million.
Damn hockey game.
Phasors On Stun
13 years ago
3 comments:
i was in a bar in anchorage watching this g2001 ame. i had just flown in from cleveland via seattle. the last great comeback was coincidentally also cleveland vs. seattle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Return
dboy
does this meant that the sox game - and everything else known to man of even marginal interest - will soon be a wikipedia entry? or that wikipedia is like the rough guide to series of world music comps?
what's next? the rough guide to british teenage boys farting. the rough guide to malaysian amplified flossing. etc.
I didn't know they had home runs in hockey.
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