Hold the peanuts, but keep the Crackerjacks. Or at least that is what is happening at some major league ball parks so kids with allergies can take in a live game…and stay alive.
A peanut (or “groundnut”) is nothing more than the most famous member of the bean family, but it can cause a lot of damage.
If a person allergic to peanuts even touches one they can suffer from: hives, rash, itchiness, flushing, and swelling of the lips, tongue or throat. Respiratory symptoms may include shortness of breath and wheezing. They could get include crampy abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting. Due to chemicals in the body, heart coronary artery spasms may occur with subsequent myocardial infarction or dysrhythmia – your heart basically works like a car engine running on a sugar-filled gas tank. A drop in blood pressure may result in a feeling of lightheadedness and loss of consciousness. There may be a loss of bladder control and muscle tone, and a feeling of anxiety.
You read that right girls…you could be dating someone that gets paid to play a game instead of pays to play a game with his buddies online, at the gym or on the slo-pitch field.
Henry Wrigley is the third-base bachelors name…let the easy “scoring” jokes and the Paradise by the Dashboard Light references fly.
For those of you who haven’t heard, Roger Clemens is a BS liar and he is finally getting called out for it. Have fun taking shots with (out of) your bunkmate Tiny, Rog.
That got me thinking about the athletes and teams that really just didn’t care about us fans at all…enjoy…or get filled with murderous rage. (Ryan Leaf isn’t on the list because he never had fans to begin with, the XFL was at least entertaining, and the Red Sox HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES so don’t try and throw 86 years out there).
9. The Soviet Hockey Team in 1980 Winter Olympics – Sure Kurt Douglas mentally ninja’d two teams, an opposing coach, and two Superpowers, but take a look at the numbers: Soviets (who where actually kicking their fans in the balls for a second time after they had lost to the Americans in the 1960 Games) 27-1-1 in 20 years of International Play outscoring opponents 175-44, including a 28-7 advantage over the Yanks. The two best players on USA in the tournament, Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig, playd a total of 30 NHL games. The top three Russians – goalie Vladislav Tretiak, speedster Valeri Kharlamov, and defender Viacheslav Fetisov – all made it into the Hall of Fame.
8. The 1994 and 1995 Toronto Blue Jays and the 1998 Florida Marlins – The Jays were back-to-back World Champs, but fell to a dismal 55–60, 16 games back, when they were bailed out by the strike. Then they followed that up with a stellar 56–88 record, last place by 30 to Boston, when they got to play 162 with mostly the same crew. The Fire Sale that hit the Marlins after winning the crown in 1997 was displayed with the 54–108, the worst record in the major leagues that year, product they put on the field.
7. Brett Favre – There are only so many times that I can take fake crying. The best part about the annual ordeal that includes gross bruised ankles and Wrangler commercials is that we get to see a lot more Rachel Nichols, the reporter not the actress but wow I would give a few years of my life to be a room with both, and a lot less John Clayton.
6. 1992 Buffalo Bills – Now the 1990 edition of the Fighting Scott Norwides really kicked the fans where the sun should shine, but to give the glimmer of hope, in the form of the greatest comeback ever, and then promptly go on to lose two more Super Bowls, that is send-your-wife-to-the-freezer-for-a-bag-of-frozen-peas bad.
5.1982 Stanford Marching Band – Guys! Tackle that dude! He is right there! Earn a scholarship! Your special teamers are giving you a chance for glory!
4. Wym Essajas for the 1960 Suriname Olympic Team - He booted his entire nation in the sac. The first ever Olympian (it is a a big deal in other countries you stuck up Americans) for his nation slept through the starting time for his try in the 800 meters.
3. The place that sold Al Davis his first jogging suit – You all KNEW that he was becoming a punch line and you did nothing NOTHING to stop it!
2. Roger Clemens and all of the steroid baseballers – You took the greatest sport of all-time and made it into a video game that needs roster updates every year. Should they be in the Hall of Fame? Yes, but each of their plaques should have a huge middle finger on it instead of any writing.
1. The Chicago Cubs – I am a Mets fan and I still think we spend money better than you guys. At least I have Derek Lee on my fantasy team.
There is a reason why everyone hates the Yankees and it isn’t because they use the Kansas City Royals as a AAAA affiliate or that their fans are more pompus about their 27 rings than King George was when we had to kick his ass out of the Colonies.
It is John Sterling.
The broadcaster, who is anything but what his name would indicate, dropped another gem last night and this time it may have been the most offensive thing he has ever said.
With the Pinstripers behind 3-2 in the top of the eighth playing against the Rangers in Texas (located in Arlington, but really meant to be the hometown team of Dallas and all of Northern Texas) Alex Rodriguez got a hold of a Frank Francisco fastball and deposited in the grass batter’s eye in dead center field over 400 feet from home.
The home run tied the game, what Sterling said ruined it.
Instead of simply saying that it was a home run into the batter’s eye, Sterling referred to the area as a “Grassy Knoll,” twice. If anyone missed it Susan Waldman (who hasn’t had an original thought since she finished up high school) followed it up with another “Grassy Knoll” reference.
Arlington sits only a half an hour from Dallas and Dealey Plaza where John Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald and the idea of a second gunman on the “Grassy Knoll” was born.
I have been to the plaza. I have see the marker and the knoll.
It is history and it sends chills thorough you.
It should never be part of a baseball game.
Combined with the fact that Sterling refers to every A-Rod home run with the same nickname for a pair of weapons that killed between 150,000 and 250,000 Japanese at the end of the Second World War (also factoring in the Yankees-Japanese influence most notably with 2009 World Series MVP Hideki Matsui) he should be fired or at least disciplined severely.
If he isn’t, than there is a conspiracy that hearkens back to the one that surround the assassination that Sterling referenced with another of his sickening home run calls.
Hold the peanuts, but keep the Crackerjacks. Or at least that is what is happening at some major league ball parks so kids with allergies can take in a live game…and stay alive.
Posted by Ben Meyers 
8. The 1994 and 1995 Toronto Blue Jays and the 1998 Florida Marlins – The Jays were back-to-back World Champs, but fell to a dismal 55–60, 16 games back, when they were bailed out by the strike. Then they followed that up with a stellar 56–88 record, last place by 30 to Boston, when they got to play 162 with mostly the same crew. The Fire Sale that hit the Marlins after winning the crown in 1997 was displayed with the 54–108, the worst record in the major leagues that year, product they put on the field.
It is John Sterling.