A hard one tonight and BG is a little torn. Lots of nods to the Kid for giving us a reason to live again and to the Veep for being mad hot. And BG's this close to giving it to Sweetcheeks for potentially saving the game with a shoestring catch with the bases loaded. But on a night where the Twins got the stadium bill signed and the biggest applause of the night went to Kent Hrbek, the BODSHC is going to honor the hometown hero, who's been kicking butt-ocks all over the place lately, who was born after the Metrodome opened and with any luck will be hitting homers in Legovision Park in '10, who caught a great game and kept the Kid calm when things got dicey and hit a nice solo homer and managed not to be too dorky in his postgame interview, and that's why you, Chairman Mauer, are the Boyfriend of the Day.
Readers/The Field: 6; Batbaby/Torii: 5; Goober/ Dr. Morneau 4; Batgirl/JoeJoe 3; Sooz/Stewie 2; Jeb/Lewwww 1.
I just think you wanted the nice 6,5,4,3,2,1 BOD line.
Posted by: Beau at May 26, 2006 10:18 PMCongrats Chairman!!
Posted by: Stacy at May 26, 2006 10:27 PMyay Chairman!
and Joe Nathan finally got another save opportunity!
hooray for the Twins!
Posted by: kafumbly at May 26, 2006 10:46 PMThe Chairman serves the people! The Chairman serves the people!
Fun game to be at tonight, and possibly historic for 2 reasons: the ballpark bill signing, and the first of hopefully many pitching battles between two potential future aces.
Oh, and the free hot dog and soda? Icing on the people's cake.
Did anyone get the scoring of the play in the 7th when Seattle scored their run before the 3rd out was recorded off Guerrier? I'm not sure I got it right.
Posted by: Skorch at May 26, 2006 10:49 PMGordo and Dazzle figured it went 4-2-5-4-2-6.
Posted by: kafumbly at May 26, 2006 11:37 PMIf anyone caught the news on WCCO after the game tonight, you would have seen one of our very own Batlings talking about the stadium.
While she did an excellent job, I think it would have been wonderful if she could have snuck Batgirl in there somewhere. Something like "It's great to see our legislators go to BAT! for us. Today, 5 HYPHEN! 26, is such a historic day for us. It makes this GIRL! proud. ... DOT COM!" We could have called it The BatGirlci Code. The 'CCO folks wouldn't have had a clue.
(btw, I won't say which Batling was on tv. I will say her name starts with a 'k', and ends with 'afumbly'. If I say anymore, I might give it away.)
Posted by: Will at May 26, 2006 11:43 PMSo...I saw the original version of that pic (with Mao in it) during class today, and found myself thinking "I wonder if BG has a version of that...". I feel psychic.
Posted by: goesboom at May 26, 2006 11:45 PMKafumbly,
The best Gordo line ever "Score it 6-3-4-4-3-6-4 [or something], and if a man answers, hang up."
Donnalove
also, congrats on your media appearance.
Posted by: Donnalove at May 27, 2006 12:03 AM"butt-ocks"
Hee!
(Bert has us saying "butt-ocks" a lot around these parts. Of course we also talk about pitch counts and how the pitcher is the best athlete on the field.)
Posted by: Laurel Krahn at May 27, 2006 07:01 PM~Heart~
Good choice Beeg!