Top of the 16th inning during the White Sox-Red Sox game on Sunday, Ed Farmer said:

While space is the final frontier, space on our lineup cards are limited.

Its one of my joys, listening to extra-inning baseball games. The longer the better. You hear the most ridiculous things. The announcers have long since run out of their prepared material so just throw random things out there. This is even better on the radio, because they have to keep talking. On T.V., they can just pipe in the sounds of the game, or the roar of the crowd, because you can keep watching. The best ongoing segments of this extra innings game:

-Who is sleeping where in the stadium?
-Giving fishnets to the ball boys in the outfield.
-EXTENSIVE discussion about the ball boys trips to the umpire.
-Will Farmer make his flight? (hint: no)
-Have the Detroit Tigers gotten back to Detroit after their game in Seattle which started an hour or two later? (hint: they keep saying 'yes')
-Discusions about their scorecards.


We fail to realize how difficult our radio announcers jobs are. It is not easy to talk for 6 straight hours. The only times I've done involved massive amounts of alcohol and no one would ever call me Harry Carry. Heh, or Rick Sutcliff.

A fourth, magical, interview for me with Koby's company is tomorrow. I will let everyone know if I have a job then. Most likely I will call both of you readers. I'm personal like that.

EDIT
Whaugh, holy shit. Ed Farmer and Chris Singleton, the White Sox radio announcers, just spent a solid 15-20 seconds quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger from Eraser Man(maybe) when talking about hoping for a home run:

Do it, do it now!

Over and over and over. Its the bottom of the 19th, these guys have lost their minds. Oh, they are still talking about their scorecards. Good times.
- posted by Pat @ 6:41 PM