OT: Dilbert Author Baseball Testimony

by DerekSTheRed on Apr 28, 2008 9:34 AM CDT

Scott Adams, the author of the popular Dilbert comic, recounts a day at the ballpark in his own unique perspective.

Yesterday I went to a Giants baseball game. It was Little League
Day, so there were about ten thousand young boys running wild in the
stands. It was also free bat day, courtesy Bank of America.

I will pause while you digest this concept.

Do you know what happens when you hand an 8-year old boy a new bat,
sit him behind the exposed heads of several adults, and ask him to sit
patiently for four hours while nothing much happens on the big field in
front of him? Do you think he fiddles with that bat? 

Apparently Bank of America figured there was some theoretical amount of
head injuries that would make the public forget that they lent a
trillion of your dollars to hobos.

Thought it was pretty funny and thought I'd share.

Derek

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That is what you get

for paying money to see the Giants play. You deserve to be beaten over the head if you are watching that team.

by JBImaknee on Apr 28, 2008 9:39 AM CDT reply actions

I would pay to watch Edinson pitch

just got ownaged

by Longhorn on Apr 28, 2008 10:07 AM CDT up reply actions

Giants...

Would you rather be a fan of the Giants or Rangers?

Different black clouds over the last decade for each team.

Is the Zito contract the worst in pro sports history?

by Apes and Androids on Apr 28, 2008 11:22 AM CDT reply actions

Rangers easily

The Rangers are often painful to watch, but their games are rarely boring.

Even in the Bonds days, the Giants have been the most boring team to watch in ten years. Old guy after old guy going up there and hitting dribblers to 2nd. Nothing made me hate ESPN more than their incessant showing of Giants games just because Bonds would be playing (and walking 3 times).

by JBImaknee on Apr 28, 2008 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Zito contract...

or Chan Ho’s?

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Apr 28, 2008 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Gotta be Zito, no?

Based on length alone, that team is set back for YEARS to come.

"I hope it's a special dumb person hell so that I don’t have to meet up with you after I die."

- The D-tron

by inactive lsb user on Apr 28, 2008 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions

Hampton

EOM

"sorry, I'm usually a dick by pointing these things out but 'concepted' is classic" - ab03

by Suicide Prince on Apr 28, 2008 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions

How so?

No hindsight BS—consider it at the time.

I don’t necessarily disagree, just want to see an argument.

"I hope it's a special dumb person hell so that I don’t have to meet up with you after I die."

- The D-tron

by inactive lsb user on Apr 28, 2008 6:06 PM CDT up reply actions

Based on legnth...

and amount of $ then yes.

At least Zito is pitching though, albeit very very badly. But I agree Zito’s deal is probably worse than Chan Ho’s.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Apr 28, 2008 5:46 PM CDT up reply actions

That's funny

Here is another quote from the post.

Conditions were difficult, but at least the game was exciting well into the first half of the first inning when the Reds scored six runs and put it out of reach. Technically, there was still hope, since many of the Giants have batting averages that round to one hundred, and some are able to catch a fly ball nearly half the time. But yesterday was not their day. There were many boos from the stands. I felt bad for the players until I realized they couldn’t hear the boos over the screams of the bat victims.

Danks, Volquez, Galarraga and Young are GONE! GET OVER IT! Endless whining will not bring them back!

by LBBRangerFan on Apr 28, 2008 1:07 PM CDT reply actions

The Rangers

need to have a “free bradley shank day”, kids 8 and under only.

And the secret sources in Cincinnati get the last laugh....

by miles on Apr 28, 2008 2:07 PM CDT reply actions

Can we have a free bat day here at the Ballpark in Arlington

And then sit all the kids right behind Ron Washington, Mark Connor, and Tom Hicks?

A Lonestar in California - 2.0

by LSJ on Apr 28, 2008 8:20 PM CDT reply actions

Back in the day

They would give out vouchers and then you’d have to go to Minyards to pick up your royal blue-painted, Jim Sundberg-signed, 28-inch, 32-ounce, wooden bat. Rumor has it that they quit giving out the bats at games, not because of the risk, but because the kids would bang the bats on the metals stands at the old Arlington Stadium and the sound throughout the stadium was unbearable.

Seems like a better idea for the sponsor as well. Taco Bueno isn’t flinging chalupas into the seats when the Mavs hit 100 … although that could be fun.

by robert_d_wilfong on Apr 29, 2008 11:10 AM CDT reply actions

Bat Day -1

As a teenager, I worked in one of the concession stands underneath the outfield bleachers at the old Arlington Stadium. The bat banging on the seats just above us was unbearable.

It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin

by txranger7 on Apr 29, 2008 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions