hey! question!

by andromache on Aug 21, 2007 5:14 PM EDT

sooo, me and between two and four of my friends are talking about going to see the game wednesday night. The option of us buying tickets in advance is low, because we're not really sure at all who's coming.

My gut instinct is that there's no way in hell that the game sells out.

But on the other hand, maybe there's something I don't know about the Braves and GAPB or some super special promotion.

So my question is: what is the chance of us showing up at game time and not being able to get seats?

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Marty and tHom bobblehead night

There will be an uptick in fans on Wednesday. You should be able to get some tickets, but probably not in the lower level (for four tix). I would check by choosing tickets on the website just to see what comes up (you don't have to actually buy the tix). It will give you an idea for what areas are available for the game right now.

I'm a numbers freak, numbers freak. I'm numbers freaky, ow.

by Slyde on Aug 21, 2007 5:17 PM EDT 0 recs

thanks-

my friends (being 21 year old girls) are not what I would describe as baseball fanatics and are what I would describe as poor - so we'll probably get shit seats anyway.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 21, 2007 5:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

Flirting gets you Skyline

Just sayin.

by Brendanukkah on Aug 21, 2007 5:29 PM EDT up 0 recs

could we get some step by step instructions?

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on Aug 21, 2007 5:41 PM EDT up 0 recs

Get to the park early

Find an older ticket hawker and flirt like hell with him. Tell him you drove all the way from Coshocton in a 1983 Geo and you've never been to a Reds game and then ask him what he's got in section 119 say row F.... be sure to dress appropriately for the 'game'.

They say it is all over in the blink of an eye. Don't Blink.

by Madville on Aug 21, 2007 5:48 PM EDT up 0 recs

Does this "ticket hawker"

give a 15% discount on ceremonial Mr. Redleg chachkas?

"Two Dunn's enter, but only one Dunn will leave...unless neither do because they decide to play cards, drink beer, golf, and fish."--SlydeFrog

by Man Mountain on Aug 21, 2007 5:52 PM EDT up 0 recs

HAHAHAHAHAH

Man M. Mountain - you one funny man - Ha Ha

They say it is all over in the blink of an eye. Don't Blink.

by Madville on Aug 21, 2007 5:53 PM EDT up 0 recs

I always thought that was spelled

"tchotchke."

Must be a NY thing...

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by BubbaFan on Aug 21, 2007 5:58 PM EDT up 0 recs

I trust NC yiddish over NY

j/k.

I figured it was something like a "tch" construction but I've never seen it spelled. My jewish ex used to use the term all the time. Not, thankfully, in relation to any part of my anatomy.

"Two Dunn's enter, but only one Dunn will leave...unless neither do because they decide to play cards, drink beer, golf, and fish."--SlydeFrog

by Man Mountain on Aug 21, 2007 6:03 PM EDT up 0 recs

Not to your face, anyway.

by Gray on Aug 21, 2007 6:33 PM EDT up 0 recs

that's racist

"Two Dunn's enter, but only one Dunn will leave...unless neither do because they decide to play cards, drink beer, golf, and fish."--SlydeFrog

by Man Mountain on Aug 21, 2007 6:51 PM EDT up 0 recs

this is the second time

in about three days i've heard discussion about this word. a couple of days ago, like these girls were like talking and like one says like "she's got all these tchachkas and.." and the other like interrupts and she's like "tchackas, i don't think i've ever heard the plural for that."

whatever the singular is. i forget.

I love the Reds no matter what!

by Daedalus on Aug 21, 2007 8:29 PM EDT up 0 recs

All you ever want to know about those trinkets

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

chachka

SYLLABICATION:    chach·ka
PRONUNCIATION:    chchk
VARIANT FORMS:    or tchotch·ke also tsats·ke ( tsätsk)
NOUN:    Slang A cheap showy trinket.
ETYMOLOGY:    Yiddish tshatshke, from Polish dialectal czaczka.

If the singular in Polish is "czaczka", the plural would be "czaczki".

by pw on Aug 21, 2007 8:50 PM EDT up 0 recs

strange

from louisville, and i've never seen that word before. in fact, i just said it out loud to myself, and it was the first time i've ever heard it.

But i wonder... if it's also pronounced "Chotch-kee," is that where the name of joanna's restaurant in office space came from?

Marty may have a shirt on, but Billy Beane just ripped his off and is squeezing his nipples. - Brendan's ukkah

by boobs on Aug 21, 2007 10:56 PM EDT up 0 recs

Yes

All the flair and the crap on the walls would be... that word, however it's spelled.

by Brendanukkah on Aug 21, 2007 11:03 PM EDT up 0 recs

From NJ originally

where there are lots of Jewish people, and I don't think I ever heard the word until I was well into adulthood. There was a gal in my Logic class at college whose name was Czaczka. The prof always made a point of pronouncing her name and teasing her about it. At the time I didn't realize why he was doing that, and I'm not sure anybody else did either.

by pw on Aug 22, 2007 9:37 AM EDT up 0 recs

Heard last night

Don't know if this was on the thread, but Thom and Chris were talking last night about Marty's vanity with regards to the bobblehead. They had a good chuckle over Marty rejecting the prototype because the hair didn't represent him well, in his mind.

by ken on Aug 21, 2007 5:44 PM EDT up 0 recs

people are way too hard on thom

he says some great things. and he's starting to stand up to his dad on the radio.

I love the Reds no matter what!

by Daedalus on Aug 21, 2007 5:56 PM EDT up 0 recs

you know you're right,

I'm guilty of being pretty hard on Thom. Sometime he does have some interesting and salient points. On the other hand he freakin' talks incessantly. I can't watch the game because he never shuts up. He is actually worse on TV than the radio. On the other hand he has had a tough life pschologically, I mean how would you like to have MartyPants Boufant as your father. On the other hand, however Thom says a whole lot of obvious stuff that even little leaguers know already, On the other hand I'm turning into Thom....AAARRRRRGGHHHHHHHH

They say it is all over in the blink of an eye. Don't Blink.

by Madville on Aug 21, 2007 6:02 PM EDT up 0 recs

what announcer doesn't talk too much?

watching all of those mlb.tv other team feeds, i have to say the vast majority of them never shut up, but many of them have these monotone voices that make it even worse. at least thom has animation to his voice.

I love the Reds no matter what!

by Daedalus on Aug 21, 2007 6:04 PM EDT up 0 recs

i have no qualms

about my distaste for thom. i prefer announcers who let the game do most of the talking. i dont need someone telling me what i should think about the game... to me, that's what talk radio is for. The fact that my opinions and his dont mix aside, i think thom's broadcasts are way too much about thom and not nearly enough about the reds.

Marty may have a shirt on, but Billy Beane just ripped his off and is squeezing his nipples. - Brendan's ukkah

by boobs on Aug 21, 2007 6:06 PM EDT up 0 recs

Vin Scully, Waite Hoyt

and Joe Nuxhall are the only 3 I can remember that keep or kept a balanced commentary. But today no one is very comfortable with silence, even for a few seconds. It is kinda sad. The silence is what makes the speaking dynamic and helps keep the announcer focused on the game being played and not the golf game he played earlier in the day.

They say it is all over in the blink of an eye. Don't Blink.

by Madville on Aug 21, 2007 6:14 PM EDT up 0 recs

As the Reds are playing the Braves

I thought that Skip Carey and Keith Van Wieren were good about keeping quiet. Sometimes they would talk about bizarre things, but so did Rizzuto and Mel Allen apparently.

"Two Dunn's enter, but only one Dunn will leave...unless neither do because they decide to play cards, drink beer, golf, and fish."--SlydeFrog

by Man Mountain on Aug 21, 2007 6:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

I loved the long, dripping moments of silence

when Nuxie called a game. You can hear the background buzz of the crowd's conversations and that's it. He didn't feel the need to fill every second with words. It made you feel more like being at the ballpark.

Quick! Somebody make a Cincinnati loves Ken Griffey Jr. too! video

by TheC on Aug 21, 2007 6:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

Al Leiter

Pitcher turned broadcaster. Maybe it's just because he's new, but he'll be silent for half an hour sometimes. You'll wonder why he left. But no, he's still there. He just doesn't talk unless he has something to say.

And when he does speak, he's really interesting. Being so recently a pitcher, he has insight that other broadcasters don't. He'll predict what pitch will be thrown next, for example, and explain why. He'll talk about what's hardest for young pitchers...and old ones. He shares a bit of what goes on behind clubhouse doors. For example, he says the worst thing an outfielder can do to a pitcher is not chase a home run. Even if it's obviously gone and hopelessly out of reach, they want at least a courtesy chase. And the worst thing a pitcher can do is blame his fielders. Even if it's there's a bonehead error and it's obviously their fault, you never criticize your fielders, or there will be hell to pay.

Fun stuff.

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by BubbaFan on Aug 21, 2007 6:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

Ahem

Fuck Al Leiter.

I'm still bitter from 1999.

by Brendanukkah on Aug 21, 2007 9:02 PM EDT up 0 recs

As I was reading her nice post...

I was thinking "I'm going to have to say Fuck Al Leiter here." Glad someone was all over that.

Anyone else crushing on the Webb Alert chick?

by Red Menace on Aug 21, 2007 10:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

LOL

That was pretty much before my time. Before I was a baseball fan, I mean.

I know Al Leiter must have been a good pitcher once. They always talk about the game where he threw 200 pitches or something ridiculous like that. And he had a no-hitter.

But I only saw him in the twilight of his career, when he was scared to throw strikes and a LOOGY at best. It's hard to imagine anyone hating him, except for the slow, nibbling pace of his games.

I liked Leiter, but man, was he agony to watch. Just so slow, and nibble, nibble, nibble. When he became a broadcaster, he said he never realized before how annoying it was to watch pitchers like him, and apologized!

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by BubbaFan on Aug 21, 2007 11:36 PM EDT up 0 recs

I was at the game

Back in nineteen quifty-qua, in the before time, when the Reds were something. Impressed I was that the fans sold out a completely empty stadium in something like 45 minutes...they said that it would help the war effort.

The crowds were so thick around Cinergy War Memorial Stadium, that I scarce got into my seat before the bottom of the first inning. By that time, of course, the Metropolitans (that's what they called them in those heady days) had already scored their run.

The crowd hung...on...every...pitch in the game. I must confess that I had never seen anything like it before in Cincinnati. Cheered like hell every time one of our boys threw a Loosiana breakdown for a strike. Booed like the Dickens every time the ump had a speck in his eye.

Leiter (spit) was a complete bastard in the game. If the Reds could have gotten negative hits in the game, I think they probably would have. To this day, I cannot say the name of the Kaiser or Leiter without spitting.

Never saw anything like it since either, at least until I went to a Red Sox - Yankees game in the Fens. If you've never been, mark that down on your list of things to do before you die.

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball" - Pete Rose

by Officer Dibble on Aug 22, 2007 1:55 PM EDT up 0 recs

sox-yanks at fenway - been there, done that

what i want to do before i die now is see a game like that in cincy. unfortunately, that is not up to me.

I love the Reds no matter what!

by Daedalus on Aug 22, 2007 2:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

There's always..

..UC vs XU.

by Fat Vegas Alan on Aug 22, 2007 2:28 PM EDT up 0 recs

yawn

I love the Reds no matter what!

by Daedalus on Aug 22, 2007 3:30 PM EDT up 0 recs

I don't know

if you can convince the Sox to play a home game in Cincinnati.

Or is that not what you meant? :-)

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball" - Pete Rose

by Officer Dibble on Aug 22, 2007 3:52 PM EDT up 0 recs

LOL

When Leiter was with the Yankees, his teammates used to rag on him by asking him how he pitched to Babe Ruth.

I wonder how good he might have been if Dallas Green hadn't ruined his arm making him throw 160 pitches that time.

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by BubbaFan on Aug 22, 2007 5:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

Phil Rizzuto had a bit of Nuxy in him.

He would drift off into his own little baseball/Phil Rizzuto world at times. Don't know much about Skip Carey and Keith Van Wieren, but Mel Allen was old school, tell the score, keep you updated as to who was on base, what inning etc. He seemed to be aware that the average fan was putting away about a case of Stroh's during the game and had the attention span of an ADD 6 month old puppy.

They say it is all over in the blink of an eye. Don't Blink.

by Madville on Aug 21, 2007 6:28 PM EDT 0 recs

Back to the Subject at hand

Tonight's the night Andromache and her girls hit the GABP. So ladies good luck and remember get there early so that you can find an old ticket hawker. By old I mean over 45-50, Properly approached he'll be putty in you hands. GOOD LUCK and bring us a winner.

They say it is all over in the blink of an eye. Don't Blink.

by Madville on Aug 22, 2007 9:10 AM EDT 0 recs