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Relishing the chance to witness history
Sporting News, The, Sept 13, 2004
Baseball fan Michael Mahan has bought all of the pavilion seats for two games during the Dodgers' season-ending series against the Giants, hoping to catch a historic home run hit by Barry Bonds. Mahan is reselling most of the tickets, and those buying them have to sign an eight-page document promising to return any ball hit by Bonds in exchange for a percentage of the profit from selling it (those hit by Michael Tucker, you get to keep). And if that's not weird enough, page 6 of the document states that ticket purchasers also have to give Mahan the first two bites of their Dodger Dogs.
It was a season to flush
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Five women's bathrooms at Soldier Field have been converted to men's rooms, the result of a complaint that went like this: A bunch of male fans said they spent way too much time at 2003 games waiting behind big oafs, nervously dancing around, missing all of the Bears' big plays. Oh, wait. That was a review of Kordell Stewart's season.
Hey, being grandfatherly works for McKeon
Speculation is high that Art Howe is managing out the string with the Mets; it was reported that one player derisively said it was like playing for your "grandfather." And if you think that's bad, while in New York last week, Dick Cheney questioned the defensive plan to move Kaz Matsui to second.
Hey, didn't you used to be the Vikings'/Broncos' running back depth?
An E.T. at ESPN?
NASA announced last week the discovery of two small planets. Astronomers aren't done searching space, either, since neither of the planets provided evidence of Lee Corso's origin.
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