Jump! (Jump!) You Might as Well Jump! (Jump!)

Tuesday night I was watching TV with Ziad, Dave and Chris and we flipped to the Yankee game. Right about that moment, Derek Jeter laid down a bunt to the pitchers mound and was thrown out at first base but the announcer goes "and so and so fields and throws out - whoa, someone just fell out of the upper deck". What? Then the camera pans to the foul ball net where this Abercrombie & Fitch clad college aged kid is just sitting there, suspended in mid-air by the net, looking completely stunned. There was a big hole where his head must have punctured the net.
So, like a minute of him being dazed goes by and he sort of comes-to and then when it's clear he's not dead or seriously injured - the crowd gets into it. This what I love about New Yorkers, they have such a sense of humor. So everyone is like, "watch out for the hole!", "no, go back to the stands!" (when he was going toward the field). He groggily stands up and slowly starts clumsily walking - on the net - back to the stands. As he gets closer to the mezzanine, the crowd works itself up into a full-fledged roar.
There were a bunch of security guys and cops there who looked pissed-off as a motherfucker and as soon as this dude gets within arms length a cop grabs him by the back of the pants and lifts him the last few feet and holds him in midair by his pants for a few seconds - giving him what must have been an enormous wedgie and escorted him out.
Now, what sucked is that the YES network didn't show the replay of this guy falling out of his seat. Very disappointing.
Anyway, it turns out it was a bet. I read in the paper that he was saying he was going to jump to "see if the net could hold his weigh". Apparently he was standing up in the front row and his friends, soon followed by the rest of the section, started chanting "SIT OR JUMP! SIT OR JUMP! SIT OR JUMP!". Clearly he went with the latter.
I'll take dumb decisions for $500, Alex. It'll be a good story to tell when he's like 30, though.

Only in New York kids, only in New York. (Page six readers will get the reference.)

Stupid, On Many Levels

From CNN.com:

GREENVILLE, South Carolina (AP) -- South Carolina
Republicans say the Democrats owe them beer money.
In April, Anheuser-Busch
Co. -- based in St. Louis, Missouri -- wrote a $5,000 check intended for the
state Republican Party.
Instead, the envelope was addressed to the state
Democratic Party, which promptly deposited the money.
Now, state GOP leaders
say the South Carolina Democratic Party needs to return the beer money they are
owed.
Democrats say the check is in the mail.
Katja Zastrow,
Anheuser-Busch's regional director of governmental affairs in Washington, said
in an e-mail statement that the check went astray "through a series of
administrative oversights."
She said the company is working with both parties
to resolve the situation.
Democrats say they have sent a refund check back to
Anheuser-Busch: "Nobody should expect us to write a check to the Republican
Party," said Lachlan McIntosh, the Democratic Party's executive director.
The
GOP said the refund was sent only after it threatened a lawsuit.

I Think Kathy's Right

Kathy said...
I think it should be:"So, why have you
started?", asked Max. if you're quoting Max.Otherwise, you should just say:So,
why have I started? ...

If you didn't read another one of my earlier posts, then you don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe you should read my blog more often, punk.

I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T CAPITALIZE?

When I started my blog I set one sort of ground rule: that I don't capitalize. So why have I started, asked Max.*

That's a good question, Max - I think it's a little more aesthetically pleasing to read something that's properly punctuated.
I suppose a blog is a tad more formal than an email so I've started capitalizing.
I still don't capitalize person emails, though - but I generally do in work e-mail.


*For all you grammarians, should there be a question mark in this sentence? If so where? I mean, it's a question but the ...", asked max" no longer makes it a questions, I'm just quoting Max. I think that's right.

The Change-ling

Today on my way home I stopped off at a bodega to get a six-pack. It was $8.50 and I gave the guy $9 singles. I had a bunch of singles for some reason, I guess. So he takes the money and almost as an afterthought, he's like "Do you have ID?". Keep in mind this is a big old not very comprehensible spanish dude. So I say, "yeah". We're just standing there and I'm all like, "do you want to see it?" and he's all like "uh, yyyyeah" and I'm just like all like whattteverrrr so I give it to him, you know? (Inexplicable foray into valley girl talk). So having been satisfied that I'm of age, he turns, puts the stuff in a bag and along with the bag hands me....nine dollars and fivty cents. Then he walks away. At first I was like dope! But then my conscience kicked in and I gave it back to him. I would have felt pretty guilty for doing that, but I definitely thought about it for a second. Good old Catholic guilt making me do a mitzvah.
What would you do?