screw you david eckstein.

[petitio]

So the Yankees and the A's both got spanked and spanked fairly hard today, but today wasn't totally irredeemable on a baseball front: on the A's radio broadcast, Bill King started talking about how much he loathes the ThunderStix they have at Anaheim. It was sometime in the first inning, and he started off commenting on how loud it was in the

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[dylanb]

Bill King started talking about how much he loathes the ThunderStix they have at Anaheim. It was sometime in the first inning, and he started off commenting on how loud it was in the stadium, and before long, he was spitting words like asinine and ludicrous and just working himself up into the most adorable favorite uncle lather ever.

Yes. The only proper way to make noise in a stadium is to heckle members of the opposing team's bullpen about sick members of their families, among other things.

I'm trying to decide if Ichiro breaking the record in Oakland would be a crying shame, or poetic justice.

[petitio]

*laughing* I've never heard ThunderStix, but I assume they're pretty goddamn annoying -- Bill King tends to be an amazingly pretty mild-tempered, open-minded and fair announcer, and he was calling for the Thunderstix to be banned in all major league baseball stadiums.

Maybe the noise was making him cranky? I don't know.

Ichiro has always hit the Oakland guys pretty well. I think the two pitchers he has the most hits against are, in fact, Zito and Mulder.

[dylanb]

Furthermore, the A's have that nitwit at the Coliseum who bangs on the drums all the time. All the Thunderstix are is that guy taken to its logical extension--what if 10,000 people banged on the drums? In light of this, it's pretty funny that someone from the A's would complain about them.

I have a lot of experience with them at hockey games, and I find them pretty easy to tune out. They're just balloons that make noise when you inflate them and hit them together. The funny thing about them is that, during intermissions, especially on a night like Boy Scout Night where there are a lot of kids, the kids tend to get bored and start using them as weapons against the kid in the next seat. It's a trip to see 2-3000 kids simultaneously beating on each other with the things.