As if the Red Sox being in town for a series against the Yanks wasn’t reason enough to imbibe, behold the greatest drinking game ever – guaranteed to get you shin-deep by the third inning and utterly blind by the twenty-seventh out.
Get Ready:
- Sit yourelf in front of a television with a “cable connection”.
- Buy booze…lots of it. Array it about the living room.
Get Set:
- Sit on couch. Open first bottle of booze.
- flip “channel” to the Yankees vs. Red Sox game on ESPN…unfortunately, you will need to turn the sound up as well. This is usually somewhat straining for a Yankee fan to do with Jon Miller, Joe Morgan, and Orel Hershiser announcing.
Go! Every time you see or hear the following, drink:
- Whenever an interview is shown or quoted containing a charming, wry quip from a Red Sock, drink.
- Each time you hear the words “Yankee” and “payroll” in the same sentence, drink.
- When any reference is made to awesome crew that Theo Epstein has gathered/traded/signed/drafted/cajoled/conjured/confabulated or the supremacy of the minor league system that Theo Epstein has built, drink.
- Every time the words “gritty” or “gutsy” (or its variant, “gutty”) are used to describe Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis, Josh Beckett, or John Lackey, drink.
- Each time a Yankee shows “guts” and/or “grit” but is completely ignored, drink. Drink again if it’s a no-name that Brian Cashman picked up for $99 in auto parts.
- Any video clip of Jon Papelbon either staring into the plate or celebrating a save, drink.
- Any video clip of Joba Chamberlain in trouble, drink.
- Any video clip of Dustin Pedroia laying out for appears to be a routine ground ball, drink.
- Any video clip of Robinson Cano making a play “lazily”, I mean, “slowly”, drink.
- If they show a clip of ARod smirking, drink.
- If they follow the clip of ARod smirking with Big Papi doing his “aw shucks” smile, drink three times.
- Any reference made to the right field wall being closer to the plate in the new Stadium, drink.
- If the Sox are losing, drink every time you hear the word “injury”.
- Drink each time an apologetic highlight reel is run of the Boston player who just gave up seven runs, struck out looking, made a costly error, blew a save, or otherwise glaringly shit the bed just moments before.
- Whenever Jon Miller mentions Joe Morgan’s Big Red Machine, Joe Morgan’s Hall of Fame career as a second baseman, or any single statistic for Joe Morgan as a second baseman with the Big Red Machine, drink.
- Whenever Joe Morgan, himself, mentions Joe Morgan’s Big Red Machine, Joe Morgan’s Hall of Fame career as a second baseman, or any single statistic for Joe Morgan as a second baseman with the Big Red Machine, drink.
- Each time Joe Morgan is called upon to break down a swing, drink. Drink again if what Joe Morgan says has no visible connection with what the hitter is actually doing.
- Whenever Orel Hershiser says something unconsciously yet unmistakingly homo-erotic, drink. (example: “Well, I remember playing hackey-sack against the wall of the showers with Fernando Valenzuela in LA!” – real quote!)
- Whenever Joe Morgan stubbornly disagrees with a call against the Red Sox, drink.
- Whenever Joe Morgan stubbornly agrees with a blown call against the Yanks, drink.
- Whenever Jon Miller takes it upon himself to show some measure of professional balance in complimenting a Yankee, drink each time the compliment is ignored, re-qualified, criticized, marginalized, denied, or otherwise stonewalled by the other two announcers.
- Drink each every time Boston is lauded for its defense. Drink again for each error the Boston players actually made.
- Every time ESPN plays “funny” with the strike zone graphics, drink.
- Any time a bright, swooshy ESPN graphic distracts from the actual game on the field, drink. Every time they interrupt the broadcast to show highlights from games between non-contenders, drink.
- Drink for each strained connection made to Babe Ruth, or each time his face is flashed on the screen.
- Each time that ESPN paid the Steinbrenners top dollar to broadcast a Yankees vs. Red Sox game with the hopes of jump-starting “The Rivalry” only to have a loss to the Yankees follow, finish the bottle!
So as of now it is 8 and waiting to hear on Kev and 4
I sent another e mail to my friend who works for the Yanks to see if he can do anything w/ tix…if he comes up w/ something good, I’ll let you know. Have we set a ceiling on how much $$ we wanna spend per ticket?
jrz gonna watch a flick w/ the Mrs. Be back in a couple of hours.
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EARL WEAVER is the second person to weigh in on the instant replay issue, right after Tommy LaSorda.
Others speaking were Al Kaline, Harmon Killebrew, Jim Bunning, and former Major League Baseball Umpire Doug Harvey.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=5464015
l’ll chuck in $10 for a suite, super.
suite….hahahahahahahahaha
Supe, holler out when ya get back
I wonto apollyyize to Fre Whipple–KRod
Babe, you never told me if you had a problem with me or the things I post here when I asked the other night. I hate to beat a dead border jumper but I gotta know.
beat a dead border jumper!! Nice.
Supe, you still got that email from the other night?
no bro I deleted it before I could right down your digits…wanna send it again?
gimmie a minute.
as a matter a fact, send me one and I will hit you back. I am gonna be sketchy with computer access the next 48 hours and only 1 out of 4 of the posts I make here from my phone go thru. Let me know if you send it to my yahoo BBTC/yahoo or my other address.
jrz I just sent it thru the BBTC.
Just sent 2, the 2nd one is the imortant 1.
jrz just responded…check out my reply & we’ll reconnect tomorrow. My tired ass is turning in for the night.
you got it. Later
check your mail in the AM
Morning, grunts.
Weirdness: Best win of the Year against Cliff Lee and the Rangers followed shortly by worst Loss of the Year against Who? and the Royals??!!!!
Do you have my email jrz?
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morning fellas
tough one yesterday, the boys had enough of the midwest and Southwest heat I guess, the last time i seen guys want to get out of a place that bad we had the bus double parked out side Miss Laura’s in Fort Smith.
Should be a fun week with Damon Coke and A-Jax rolling in, it would also be nice to finally put Boston out of their misery by picking up some ground on them, I thought taking 3 out of 4 might help, maybe with some home cooking, although Peewee is back in the line up for them tonigh, and i believe they have a shit load of ga,mes at home coming up, as we do.. Enjoy the get together on Sunday, J good to see you back.. enjoy the day!
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