A friend of mine (via the TopFive contributors mailing list) gave us the following words of wisdom this morning. To put it into context, as with any mailing list, there are always heated discussions. Yesterday and today the hot button topic turned out to be based on something I posted. Asked what, if anything, you would change in professional sports today, I responded that I would put in some kind of ability to use instant replay in baseball, for those extremely questionable calls (was he or wasn’t he tagged out, or did the ball hit the lip of the Green Monster and bounce out and then back in?) In a controlled manner, like football, where you only get to ask for so many reviews.
One person was vehemently against instant replay, stating that mistakes are just part of the game and it makes it interesting. There was a response that to make it interesting we should just pull people with no skills off the streets to officiate. Vobo suggested using hobos. He later added the following:
“I once found a hobo softball player figure – with a ripped shirt and a can of beer in his ungloved hand – that was the same size and had the same color base as the wise men in my mom’s manger scene. Every manger should have a drunken softball hobo. Especially since Godzillas, army men and rubber cockroaches are immediately distinguishable. Same with the Santa climbing down the manger’s ersatz chimney, but I think that’s a nice touch.”
Next Christmas I am SO sneaking people into my mom’s manger scene.
I used to play with the manger people, making up little plays and such. My mom yelled at me.
Adding someone new to the stoic scene? Rockin.
1) Salary cap in MLB.
2) We had a penguin at the foot of the manger my entire childhood.
That’s AWESOME.
Almost as awesome as hobo sports.
(A hobo SOFTBALL player?? AWESOME.)
When I was really little my mom had a plastic nativity set that was almost as big as me, the kind people put outside, but she had it in the living room.
We used to play with baby Jesus because he was the same size as our other dolls.