Short, but sweet...beer and baseball, they make a team! -5's

Grand slammin' drunk!

thank you both

alvin, I remember in about 1975 going to Dodger Stadium to see the Dodgers play the Atlanta Braves. I went with two Jazz Musicians who were working at our family's Car Wash due to the lack of demand for Jazz Musicians. One hadn't been to a game since 1956 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, the other since 1958 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati...anyway, we didn't bother with beer, since in these more civilized times(?) you could still take a glass container of say, Orange Juice, into the Stadium without it being considered a potential weapon or problem, and owing to the Drummer's affection for cheap Vodka it made a perfect tasting AND vitamin-C enhanced mixer for said cheap Vodka - so anyway, the game was really kind of a snoozer. Dodgers won 1-0 in 10 innings...in the 10th innings with a runner on 3rd and two outs I commented, "wouldn't it be fitting if the Dodges won the boring game on a Wild Pitch or Passed Ball (Phil Niekro, a knuckleball pitcher, was pitching for the Braves). The next pitch was, yes, a wild pitch and the runner on 3rd scored to end the game. My pie-eyed companions blinked and said..."Is that it? Just like that, it's over on that stupid play?". "Yup", I replied, "another Glorious and Exciting evening at the Ballpark..."...Bass player: "What a bunch of boring F*cking Sh*t", and we all laughed crazily. I had indulged in a bit of the fortified Orange Juice at various points during the game...so we walked out and started to circle Dodger Stadium to find my 1962 Rose-colored Cadillac (which had faded to pink due to too many repeated Car washing over the years with little regard for preserving the paint job)...and halfway around the parking lot realized that we had turned the wrong way upon exiting the Stadium...the car would have been about 5 degrees East of where we left the stadium had we turned in the right direction. So we walked around the whole thing...probably a good thing, the walk sobered me up a bit for the ride home and there was not much stadium traffic left by that time...Oh...yeah...5's for your parody - good job...Hmmm...this story was about 5 times as long as your parody...well, hope you and others enjoyed my reminiscence...those were some wild & wooly days for me...glad I survived and never hurt anybody while it was going on...

i enjoyed your baseball tale, paul...i've been out to dodger stadium more times than i could begin to count...and i will say this...the idiot who designed that parking lot should be tarred and feathered, drawn and quartered....and whipped with a wet noodle...however, they have a shuttle service now on friday nights that takes you from union station right to the front door...thanks for taking a look

Shuttle service, alvin? To borrow from "The Band" - "A drunkard's dream if I ever did HEAR one"...