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May 25, 2009

Darkness on the edge of downtown

The game between the O's and Blue Jays was delayed in the middle of the fifth inning by, believe it or not, darkness. The sky has clouded up and the lights -- for some reason -- have not yet been turned on.

The umpires stopped the game momentarily to talk to the managers, but have resumed in this strange twilight.

Instant update: The lights appear to be warming up now. Don't know why it took so long, but I would guess the umpires made the teams resume because the Blue Jays already had batted in the twilight.

Posted by Peter Schmuck at 3:08 PM | | Comments (4)
Categories: Just baseball
        

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What!!??......Kevin Costner in town????

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Pete's reply: Oh behave!

Can you find a way to work in a Bruce reference at least once a week? More than that may be overkill. But I appreciate the play on one of my favorite albums.

Hey Pete,

I'm not one to usually call people on grammar or anything like that but are you and Roch getting together to name your blog posts alike?

http://masnsports.com/2009/05/darkness-on-the-edge-of-town.html

That's a little fishy, no?


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Pete's reply: It was a coincidence. We're both Springsteen fans, I guess.

Pete,

I was going with more of the Robert Redford as the Natural took out the whole bank of lights made with bat by Sun Blogger Peter Schmuck!


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Pete's reply: Good call. We could call the bat Schmuckboy.

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