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Game 93: July 17, 2007
WinRoyals 9 W: Jimmy Gobble (4-1)
H: Zach Greinke (7)
40-53, 1 game winning streak
10-17-3 series record
Red Sox 3 L: Tim Wakefield (10-9) 56-37, 1 game losing streak
19-8-4 series record
Highlights: Well, nobody died.

Unfortunately, my friend Matt’s NU50 mojo blog is all but defunct. If he were still active, you’d get to see things like this. Originally posted in the Royal Rooters members-only section, Matt exacts his revenge on me since I had to cancel last night because of my business trip. The pictures and captions are all by him, but my responses are in italics.

So I just got back from the ball park. Oh, what a day Empyreal and I had!
Nu5001
Does he really think I have an Adam’s apple?

Of course, we were nearly late, she had to primp so much in the mirror before hand!
Nu5002
In truth, I take ten minutes tops to get ready for anything.

But eventually we got to the T and off we went to Fenway.
Nu5003
Can you imagine what people on the T thought? Parents were hiding their children, I’m certain.

When we got to the park, we got to take our picture with the Wally statue.
Nu5004I would have been more impressed if this photo was taken with the real Wally. Doubly so if it were Remy’s Wally.

We eventually got to our seats. It was weird though, the normally friendly Fenway crowd didn’t want to hang out with us! I wonder why? I blame Empy.
Nu5005
Blame me for what? My badly-drawn hair? You should know I part my hair on the left.

Empy decided we should get hot dogs.
Nu5006Wrong again! I get kosher dogs or polish sausages.

I thought that was a great idea. Look out ladies, this strapping young lad is single!
Nu5007Usually when you eat hot dogs Manny hits homers. Guess that mojo is dead, too.

We had fun joking around at the game, as I was my normal, incredibly witty self.
Nu5008There are many varieties of delusion.

That better not be sarcasm! But eventually we got down to business as our fantasy trade talks for our respective WAUggla franchises started heating up.
Nu5009
DEAL!
That would just be unfair. Please, allow me to throw in Justin Upton.

Around the 5th, my friend Ben showed up to spend time with us.
Nu5010
Hi Ben!
Hi... Ben? Never met Ben.

And then we ran in to my friend Tony! We sure had a lot of friends at the ball park!
Nu5011
I remember Tony. A kind gentleman, unlike someone I could mention.

We saw quite a few characters. Like this gentleman being escorted out by security for waving around a particularly ribald sign.
Nu5012
Speaking of, what if Manny impregnated Gisele? Poetic justice.

I like to think this guy isn’t wearing a shirt with his own name on it, but rather is such a huge Aubrey Huff fan that he jumped the gun a bit when those rumors swirled a few years ago.
Nu5013
People rarely meet your sartorial standards. By the way, what a terrific Seibu Lions hat you’re wearing. I wonder who gave it to you?

Empy and I still had fun though. We got to sing along with “Sweet Caroline.”
Nu5014
You didn’t even allude to our Jordan’s Furniture alternate lyrics.

And have fun with the multiple choice Attendance Quiz.
Nu5015
What, was B 35-something? I would know better than to choose that.

Uh oh.
Nu5016
I’m fairly sure I’m beating you in the our Attendance Quiz showdowns. Also, I’m disappointed you didn’t catch the Trivia Question.

You said it, ol’ chum.
Nu5017
Here you are putting words in my mouth. That is your speech and heckle pattern and everyone knows it.

With the park slimming out due to the lopsided score, we made a break for better seats with Tony on the other side of the park.
Nu5018
I would never change seats. That’s akin to stealing.

But all that running around sure made Empy tired.
Nu5019
Responding to each one of your slanders is tiring.

She had just enough energy left though for one last pose at the park
Nu5020It was the perfect end to the perfect evening.
Couldn’t you have scaled me properly? My head looks like Kevin Mench’s here.

....or at least it would have been, had Empy not had too much to drink, again!
Nu5021
Again, everyone knows I wouldn’t merely be sick if I drank alcohol, but probably comatose. I don’t have sufficient quantities of aldehyde dehydrogenase!

Oh, Empy, will you ever learn?
Nu5022
Probably not.

When I talked to Matt after seeing these he said, “Fake you was more fun than real you.”

Comments

1. It's a clavicle, not an Adam's apple.
2. You couldn't come to the game, but I am such a good friend I HAND-MADE a MANNEQUIN of you to show off at the game, and yet I'm painted as a slanderer.
3. Not to mention you are nit-picking the accuracy of said model. OK, so the hair isn't perfect, but is the criticism of my fake-Empy's personality really warranted?
4. Yes, we normally sing about Jordan's furniture during Sweet Caroline. But I felt making an inside joke where the only other person who gets it is made of cardboard was getting a bit esoteric. I did sing "I Am Mike Low-ell", though, despite that.
5. You'll notice fake-Empy couldn't hold her liquor either. She's a two-drink drunk. Well, not so much drunk, as she is soggy.
6. You know why fake-Empy is so fun? No sass-back.

(Bonus #7: I almost posted this story on my blog, but I figured I should put it somewhere that people might actually see it.)

  1. Clavicles, or collar bones, are in the upper chest and make up the shoulders. They are not on the neck, and they are parallel to the ground. In fact, they are the only horizontal long bones in the human body.
  2. Replace "sociopath" with "good friend" and you're all set.
  3. It's like My Fair Lady meets Corpse Bride and a snippit of a-Ha's "Take On Me" music video. That sounds like a great concept but in practice....
  4. "I Am Mi-ike Lowell."
  5. Real me wouldn't drink at all.
  6. There can be no Empy without sass, real or fake.
  7. Replicating it here didn't help in that regard, either.

1. Then it's that other thing that is there that isn't an Adam's apple that I don't know the name of.
2. And replace "good friend" with "#1 awesome dude" and we are even better.
3. ...it is totally sweet.
4. "Ot-to-man!"
5. But I imagine if real-you did drink, much like fake-you, you would end up soggy and unresponsive.
6. Fake Empy has "Oh, you are such a kidder" sass. Real Empy has "everyone who has ever said they loved you was lying" sass. There is a difference.
7. Posting on my blog is a slightly less effective method of distributing content than printing out anything I write 100x, putting them in bottles, and then throwing the bottles out to sea in the hopes I get a big following in Europe.

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