Farmers only play with the Lookouts

by Rick House on May 12, 2008 2:26 AM EDT in News

Dayton and Louisville rained out, and Sarasota had the day off, so we're left with only Chattanooga. Things were going great until Josh Roenicke left one over the fat part of the plate...

You can get a couple game reports of the weekend from fellow Red Reporters here. Sorry about the lack of coverage the past two days. Rick House has some friends left over from college, and some of them get married now and then. What are your favorite/least favorite wedding dances? This weekend's groom's family has developed a dance for the Rock Lobster that they do at every wedding. I found it very entertaining. Ponder that while reading about last night.

Gutierrez

Double-A: Josh Roenicke gave up a walk-off home run to Brett Hayes (yes, that Brett Hayes*) as Chattanooga lost 4-3 to Carolina. Shaun Cumberland was 1 for 3 with a triple, and Chris Valaika was 0 for 4. Tonys Gutierrez was 2 for 3 with a walk and is now the Southern League leader in on-base percentage (.467). Ramon Ramirez struck out 7 in 6 innings, allowing 3 runs and 8 hits. Cameron Maybin homered for the Mud Cats. Your reliever of the day: 24-year-old Robert Manuel, who hasn't allowed an earned run this season in 23.2 innings with Sarasota and Chattanooga. He struck out 4 in 2 innings last night and is up to 31 strikeouts and just 6 walks. He's the guy we got from the Mets in '06 in exchange for Dave Williams. UP NEXT: Game 3 at Carolina, 7:15 tonight.

(* nonsensical)

0 recs | Comment 30 comments | Add your comment

Read Related

Story-email Email | Print |

Comments

Rock Lobster...

...I don’t mind. Women dressed up in long skirts and such for weddings usually don’t like getting down on the floor, though.

Least favorite wedding dance: a tie between the Electric Slide and the Macarena.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on May 12, 2008 6:40 AM EDT reply reply 0 recs

I DJ about 10 weddings a year

I would say the most hated has become the chicken dance or YMCA. In fact a lot of couples often request those two not be played.

Find me on MySpace- http://www.myspace.com/mixfmkyle

by MixFMKyle on May 12, 2008 7:55 AM EDT reply reply 0 recs

yikes

I don’t think I’ve ever heard those at a wedding. At baseball games, all the time, but a wedding?!

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on May 12, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

my wife and i have had to go to a number of weddings recently

she’s Jewish, and a number of her childhood friends are too. so this hayseed from the banks of the Ohio, who had never met a Jew until college, has gone to alot of Jewish weddings over the past few years. in my experience, the most excruciating dance is definately Hava Nagila. its pretty much required at any Jewish wedding, and there really is no formal end to it. you just keep singing it over and over and until they get tired of it. and there is always a couple of over-enthusiastic party-goes who just wont stop. so this song will go on for 15-20 minutes sometimes. Stairway is still cool after 20 minutes of it. Hava Nagila is not.

If you don't get a good-night kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 12, 2008 8:07 AM EDT reply reply 0 recs

edit

the fourth sentence should begin, “the first few times i heard it, i thought it was “neat” and “exotic”, but…” otherwise this post struggles with coherence issues. thank you.

If you don't get a good-night kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 12, 2008 8:29 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

It's like the last episode of Scrubs

"Hard being everybody’s hero, I suppose." - Buck O'Neil on Willie Mays

by Slyde on May 12, 2008 8:41 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

yeah what was up with that?

i though kelso quit

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 12, 2008 11:19 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Apparently

that episode was supposed to air earlier in the season, but when NBC decided that they weren’t going to give the show more episodes after the strike, they decided to use that one as the season finale. I’m not sure why because it was the weakest episode this season. Maybe Bill Lawrence wanted to give a big ol’ screw you to NBC before jumping to ABC?

"Hard being everybody’s hero, I suppose." - Buck O'Neil on Willie Mays

by Slyde on May 12, 2008 11:32 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

i think he did a great job of that

as well as confusing the hell outta me.

i dvr’d it, and when i started watching it, i stopped to make sure I was playing the right episode. The storyline made no sense, and it was billed as the season finale.

stupid nbc. How that show made it this long with the way it was treated i’ll never know!

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 12, 2008 11:41 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Excuse me for butting in...I don't watch the show.

(I used to watch it once in a while with my wife.)

But if I’m understand your conversation here, does this mean that might be some “lost episodes” of the show?

Available on Blu-Ray DVD for $34.95 in 2009.

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 12, 2008 11:53 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

No

They will have a full 18-episode season next year on ABC. I don’t believe there will be any lost episodes, though since they’ll be moving to ABC, I could see a Lost parody episode in the works.

"Hard being everybody’s hero, I suppose." - Buck O'Neil on Willie Mays

by Slyde on May 12, 2008 12:01 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I always like it when they play Crank Dat Soulja Boy at weddings

Then you can be that obnoxious guy who goes around asking people if they know what it means to “superman that ho.” And of course by now everyone does, but it’s still funny to see Grandma and Grandpa, or an old aunt or something out on the floor, getting down to “what the kids are listening too.”

The last wedding I was at was for my friends, one of whom went to Ohio State, and the other went to Michigan. The wedding was in Ann Arbor, and the bride (OSU alum) requested “Hang On Sloopy” be played. So all the Ohio people got on the floor and drunkenly screamed the words as loud as possible. A few minutes later, in true Sharks-Jets style, the groom requested “Hail to the Victors.” Fun times.

by Brendanukkah on May 12, 2008 10:09 AM EDT reply reply 0 recs

i echo both of these

i learned the soulja boy just for the wedding, and they never played it. i was very disappointed. And even though this wedding was in south bend, they played hang on sloopy and did the O-H-I-O thing. Obnoxious as cock.

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

by boobs on May 12, 2008 11:57 AM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

To be clear

I was absolutely out on the floor with the rest of the Ohio folks. But if you folks couldn’t tell by now that I’m obnoxious as cock… I don’t know what to tell you.

by Brendanukkah on May 12, 2008 12:01 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

RE: "what the kids are listening too"

For our wedding and reception, my wife and I wanted to spend money in areas other than “music” but music was still important to me so I spent two weeks buring several CDs to be played at particular times throughout the reception. First, some jazz with cocktails, then mild-and mid-tempo for the dinner hour… Another CD for the “traditonal dances” and two more for the boogie down. When I got to the end of the project I was running out of ideas so I was throwing stuff on that I knew that I liked and I had to just guess if drunk people were going to dance to it.

I’ll always remember my eighty-five year-old grandfather (he was my best man, BTW) getting up out of his chair late in the evening when this one started. He was tired and he didn’t want to dance any more but he leaned against a doorway and told me, “This oughta get ‘em going again.” He just wanted to watch the young folks.

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 12, 2008 12:18 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

Dee-Wight is nails in concert

his interaction with the secretarial pool up front is an art form in and of itself.

Buzzards and dreadful crows: necessary evils, I suppose

by Man Mountain on May 12, 2008 12:23 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs

I took a gal who had never heard his stuff to a show.

She was of the “I hate country” variety but I tried to settle her nerves by explaining that there’s a little bit of tongue in Dwight’s cheeks. After the show she said, “He’s got a great ass.”

Another time, a buddy and I had front row seats to one of his shows. Great show and we had a great time but we started feeling uncomfortable being pretty much the only dudes in the first three rows. So we started yelling at and fawning all over Pete Anderson. “You da man!” after every solo and between songs. Meanwhile, Yoakam’s strumming and shaking it directly over our heads.

(I still love DY and I still look for his new stuff but FWIW I think he needed Pete. I dunno, I guess he had a helluva run. Maybe it was destined to fade regardless of who he worked with. Messy divorce, though.)

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 12, 2008 12:35 PM EDT up reply reply 0 recs