EL ALL-STAR GAME, OR IS IT?
The fog is so thick at Dodd Stadium that my computer monitor needs windshield wipers.
The outfield billboards, generally resplendent in their color, are shrouded in gray. Thankfully, the first six outs in the game were ground balls. The press box odds of a routine fly ball being caught are 5-to-1.
Thicker and thicker the fog gets. Minor league directors across America must have swallowed hard at the thought of their elite outfielders standing under fly balls that could end their lives, no less their careers.
We can make out the left fielder, where Dodd Stadium’s lights are decent. But center fielder, shadowy even at the best of times, is obscured.
Rob Cosby of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats lofts what looks like a catchable fly ball to right field. Brian Barton of Akron cannot locate the ball and Cosby is off the races with a triple. We may set the record for triples tonight.
Val Majewski of Bowie hits a pop fly to fairly deep center. The only image I can see is a white shirt going right field, then circling toward left. Double. Let’s hope any foreigners on hand don’t interpret this as baseball. Even worse, let’s hope they don’t have camcorders. On the other hand, it’s OK because nobody would be able to see what was happening anyway.
The Dodd Stadium sound man wouldn't dare play, "I Can See For Miles."
Finally, some common sense. Jackson Melian's hit to right field could have dropped Defenders outfielder John Bowker where he stood. It went for a fog-assisted two-run single to tie the game. The umpires have intervened. We'll wait 15 minutes, which may be just enough time for the thunderstorm that Doppler says is inevitable.
Maybe he'll play, "I Can See Clearly Now."
The outfield billboards, generally resplendent in their color, are shrouded in gray. Thankfully, the first six outs in the game were ground balls. The press box odds of a routine fly ball being caught are 5-to-1.
Thicker and thicker the fog gets. Minor league directors across America must have swallowed hard at the thought of their elite outfielders standing under fly balls that could end their lives, no less their careers.
We can make out the left fielder, where Dodd Stadium’s lights are decent. But center fielder, shadowy even at the best of times, is obscured.
Rob Cosby of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats lofts what looks like a catchable fly ball to right field. Brian Barton of Akron cannot locate the ball and Cosby is off the races with a triple. We may set the record for triples tonight.
Val Majewski of Bowie hits a pop fly to fairly deep center. The only image I can see is a white shirt going right field, then circling toward left. Double. Let’s hope any foreigners on hand don’t interpret this as baseball. Even worse, let’s hope they don’t have camcorders. On the other hand, it’s OK because nobody would be able to see what was happening anyway.
The Dodd Stadium sound man wouldn't dare play, "I Can See For Miles."
Finally, some common sense. Jackson Melian's hit to right field could have dropped Defenders outfielder John Bowker where he stood. It went for a fog-assisted two-run single to tie the game. The umpires have intervened. We'll wait 15 minutes, which may be just enough time for the thunderstorm that Doppler says is inevitable.
Maybe he'll play, "I Can See Clearly Now."
posted by Ken Lipshez at
8:20 PM
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