With Batmom and Batdad baysitting Batbaby, Team Batgirl heads out under the teflon sky for a game of baseball.
Lego Batgirl watches Carlos Silva's fine pitching.
Lego Goober: I ran out of room.
Dougie leads off from first.
Lego Batgirl: Huh, Dougie still pulls out his back pockets when he's on offense.
Lego Batgirl: Why do you think he does that?
Lego Jeb: Hmm, I'm not sure. It wouldn't seem to lend to aerodynamics.
Lego Batgirl: If anything, you'd think it'd create drag...
Lego Batgirl: ...ass-drag.
Lego Jeb: I agree, Batgirl, I wonder if Dougie is aware of that. If only we could measure it, we could warn him. Hmm, the magnitude of the drag will depend on the viscosity of the atmosphere in which he's playing... and I'd like to arrive at a Reynolds number by measuring the degree to which the flow is laminar or turbulent. Hmm, if only we could explain to him that the exposed pockets will increase both the wake and energetic eddies...
Lego Batgirl: Or we could yell, "Hey Dougie, careful for ass-drag!"
The seventh inning stretch arrives.
Lego Suz: Um, there's no way we're not going to score against these guys, right?
Huh.
WHOA! Thats a big pic. Do you think you can resize it?
Thanks!
Posted by: goesboom at May 4, 2006 11:43 PMAlmost as good as being there, I'm sure.
In the first week of the season, I heard Dick claim that Batista pulls out his back pocket "as a signal to kids that he doesn't dip chewing tobacco." First time I'd ever heard that explanation, but maybe that is what Dougie Bubble means to convey to the BatBaby and the rest of our nation's youth, as well.
Posted by: frightwig at May 4, 2006 11:46 PMClick on my name please for another "view" of the game. Enjoy. ;)
Posted by: Mr Baseball No. 1 at May 4, 2006 11:49 PMI never even dreamed of the day when I would see the term "Reynolds number" in a BG write-up. My personal pursuits and academic studies are converging. It's a level of synchronicity I never expected to achieve. Vaguely unsettling, yet so beautiful.
It's all coming together now.
Unlike, you know, the Twins offense and pitching. Which seem to have divided up the sucking time between each other this season.
Posted by: neutrino boi at May 4, 2006 11:49 PMAh the Reynolds number. It's so much easier to understand on this site than from a Taiwanese professor who didn't have time to learn English.
Also, It must have been nice to fit all 4 of you onto 1 seat! Saves money on tickets!
Posted by: Ryan at May 5, 2006 12:35 AMI'd appreciate it very much if the Lego Bat Team could exchange seats with the man & his 3 young boys who have purchased the 4 seats in front of my season ticket seats this year.
Don't get me wrong...the boys are very cute, but when they stand on their chairs I can't see the hitters.
Somehow I don't think that would be a problem if the Lego Bat Team were in those seats.
Posted by: bubblemint at May 5, 2006 12:51 AMAss Physics is hott.
Posted by: BAT bandwagoner at May 5, 2006 12:58 AMI had to read it twice to see that you took the lego to the game
Cool!!!!!
Posted by: dan in london at May 5, 2006 02:50 AMMy favroite part is when the Legos are the obstructing heads in the shot of Misspelling on second.
Posted by: C Joseph at May 5, 2006 03:35 AMBG, it appears that you were sitting in the section below JustBeth and me last night. I sure wish I would have noticed you taking pictures of Legos on Metrodome seats! heh. it would have been nice to have something to smile about...
Posted by: kafumbly at May 5, 2006 06:42 AMLove the seventh-inning stretch.
Posted by: LaurieNY at May 5, 2006 07:36 AMJeb-
I think Harold Reynold's number with the Mariners was 4. I hope that helps with your equation.
NIH
Posted by: NIH at May 5, 2006 07:48 AM
Hey! I was at the game last night, too! And I didn't even see Team Batgirl among the 27 other people who were there! BUMMER!
It must save a lot of money on tickets when everyone can fit in one seat.
Posted by: Stacy at May 5, 2006 08:34 AMBatgirl, i really like your LegoHat, but that black LegoVest is what really draws the eye.
Posted by: TeeNutts at May 5, 2006 09:03 AMI'm very glad there was time in what I'm sure is a packed Bat-schedule to blog about this game. I sure needed the pick-me-up. Thanks, BG!!!
Heh... "ass-drag" ... :D
Yes! Legovision returns! I'm quite certain this is what was needed to turn the team's fortunes around!
As for "ass-drag", I can't say for sure it had any effect on Doug's aerodynamics, but I think it pretty much sums up the Twins' offensive (and I do mean OFFENSIVE) performance with runners in scoring position last night.
Posted by: JimCrikket at May 5, 2006 09:56 AMI love it!
Team BG as legos is way too cool.......
Lego Suz has nice hair.
Legovision is my favorite!
Loved the LegoVision! And how appropriate, given what was and was not happening on the field, that the camera was turned on Team Batgirl. The only things that can create excitment this season for Twins fans are (1) more LegoVision coverage of the non-events on the field and (2) a reprise of the "name that butt" contest.
Reading Batgirl, I get an education too - this time about aeronautical engineering. Now I feel, having grasped the concept of ass-drag, that I could design jet liners for Boeing.
Torii and Justin can't hit, our pitchers can only pitch effectively against Kansas City, and poor Gardy is at a loss over what to do about it. Plus, it looks like the Vikings lobbyists have ruined the chances of our getting a real baseball park. What's left? Only Team Batgirl. Only you can make our baseball dreams come true. In fatansy, at least.
Posted by: john r. tunis at May 5, 2006 10:37 AMBG,
Though Team Batgirl is looking a little jaundiced, I must say, Sooz looks fantastic -- dropped that baby weight right off!!! I mean, to weigh an approximate 0.02 pounds so soon after childbirth... I must know her secret!
Ha-ha-haingly yours,
YankeeFan
I'm so sad.
Posted by: haplo at May 5, 2006 11:58 AMYou'd normally assume a 1-0 game would be a taut, well-pitched game with spectacular defense and a palpable tension in the air (see World Series, 1991). From the recap, I get the subtle sense that may not have been the atmosphere last night.
By the way, are Jeb's hat and jacket tributes to the Chairman? Is he trying to muscle in on BG's boyfriend? Will this create tension in the BatQuarters? And what are the philosophical, theological, and metaphysical implications of your husband trying to steal your boyfirend?
Posted by: e-9 at May 5, 2006 12:29 PMit seems jeb's hat changes color from over the course of the game? i thought hypercolor apparel had disappeared from the earth completely...
Posted by: andy in wrigleyville at May 5, 2006 01:08 PMCouldn't team batgirl find clothing that wasn't Royals blue? KC must have thought you were cheering for them!
I'm glad they could make it the game, though. It looks like they need to get out more.
Posted by: SDave at May 5, 2006 02:58 PMYay for LegoVision!!!!!!
But someone needs to invent a Reynolds Rap.
Posted by: BD at May 5, 2006 03:13 PMTHE REYNOLDS RAP
I kick your velocity
When it's down like a ho'
Your viscosity ain't def
Not even for show
Density is the shizzle
The leading edge for your missle
Your Reynolds number's fly
Like when Natalie Portman walks by
Where oh where are the Fat Boys when you need them? RD, that is too funny! All we need is the human beatbox.
YF
Posted by: YankeeFan at May 5, 2006 03:57 PM;pseudopoint: to RD for the Rap. That was aces.
Also, "ass-drag" has been entered into my official daily vocabulary.
Posted by: FH at May 5, 2006 05:34 PMWow, RD. Stunning!
Posted by: Jeb at May 5, 2006 06:05 PMIf only the Tate Gallery had such works of art, instead of blasted paintings of Fog.
Posted by: John Tkalcich at May 5, 2006 06:51 PMlegovision...superb
the only thing that could beat the legovision bat family at the dome would be the legovision bat family at a new stadium. it appears that senator steve kelly (DFL-hopkins) is the butthead who wrote the new bill that is in the senate now and added all the extra crap like the vikings and gophers, public transportation and deal-killing referendums. go to www.mn.gov and find his page and send him a nastygram for screwing with the house bill. time is running out!
Posted by: dorkyhouse at May 5, 2006 06:52 PMLegovision is lovely, Batgirl. But (and I mean this in a totally Clinton-and-Stacy kind of a way) was that a pixie vest you were wearing? Why? The players might think you approve of such things, and I'd hate for you to represent yourself in a way you're not proud of.
Posted by: hrunting at May 5, 2006 06:56 PMPlease confine stadium talk to the Batcave or elsewhere. Thanks.
Posted by: Jeb at May 5, 2006 09:39 PMHoly crap, I can't believe so many other people on here know what the Reynolds number is. Go Engineering!
Posted by: Donnalove at May 5, 2006 11:22 PMplease tell me lego batgirl isn't wearing a pixie vest.
Posted by: aurora at May 6, 2006 10:49 AMNever!
Posted by: Batgirl at May 6, 2006 11:41 AMphew.
Posted by: aurora at May 6, 2006 05:24 PMLegoVision: one of the better ways to watch a 0-1 loss. Although being one of the 27 people at the Dome is another good way.
Posted by: JustBeth at May 8, 2006 12:25 PMThe only thing that makes me feel better after losing two of three to the Twins--LEGOVISION!!!
You guys have to come to Comerica!