Ice Machine - Nooner, Anyone?
May 20th, 2008 by Tuffy Posted in ice machine, question of the day |

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you before you start your day (quickie-style):
- Blah blah no-hitter blah blah. How about an inside-the-park home run by a catcher?
- Spurs-Lakers. We don’t think the heels are supposed to fight each other. Get Rewrite in here!
- Craig Biggio fills out another line item on his way to beatification.
- We are endlessly amused at the notion of a Chris Mortensen vendetta. We can believe it, but it seems so flaccid on the vendetta scale.
- Hubris alert: Formula One driver’s house nearly burns down when his trophy case catches on fire.
- Finally: Gus Gus! We don’t know much about this MMA business, though we’re trying to learn. We don’t know the size or the consistency of the chunks that this EliteXC organization might blow. (The name indicates golf ball-sized and gelatin-like, but we’re still here.) However, we have hopes Gus Gus will add one more option to our Saturday night viewing this summer. We’re running out of Hugh Grant romantic comedies.
And the Question of the Day: In light of the no-hitter and inside-the-park home run last night, what’s the most rare sporting event you ever witnessed in person? We can claim a July 4th doubleheader that ran from noon till nearly midnight due to rain delays, extra innings, and the Chicago Cubs being involved.
Also, we think we saw Shawon Dunston take a walk once, but we might have been on cold medication. How ’bout you?
May 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I have two events:
1.When I was in high school a kid on our team shot at the wrong basket and got fouled. For some reason, the kid that fouled him got to shoot freethrows in his own basket.
2.In the same tournament but a different game, one team made a steal at about the three-point line but the opposing team knocked the ball out from behind. The ball rocketed from the original player’s hand into the knee of another player. This ricochet increased the speed of the ball which traveled directly into a bench player’s face. It was awesome.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Did you ever wonder why the song played during timeouts at your games was “Yakety Sax”?