Update from the father-s0n- grandfather baseball trip. Charleston WV - So we're sitting three rows behind home plate and about a half hour before the game starts this guy named Rod shows up with a seat in the first row and he's carrying a toaster and a big loaf of Sunbeam bread. He sets up a small table, plugs in the toaster, and starts making toast. I've been to a lot of ball games but never seen a toaster before. The first batter for Greensboro strikes out and Rod gets up and starts the crowd chanting, "You - are -toast - you - are - toast" and then he starts throwing pieces of toast into the crowd! ("Don't eat it you don't know where it's been," he cautions). All night long. When a batter had two strikes he'd purposely start burning toast and blow the smoke out onto the field. "Smell the toast - smell the toast". Gotta love it - only in A ball !
Nicholas+ in Phoenix sent me this link that fills in the blanks. Turns out that Rod is the assistant to the mayor !
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060804&content_id=114047&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
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Heh - I remember reading about this guy here:
http://tinyurl.com/3vwd8b
Out here in Phoenix we just have "flag lady" who sits in the cheap sits along the first base line and does some sort of complicated semaphore routine whenever the D-backs do something good.
She's been sitting quietly for the last couple of weeks...
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