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Last night's DirecTV highlight while watching the Fox Sports Ohio feed of Sox-Indians happened when the signal went out mid-pitch to Jason Varitek, then restored just in time to see him rounding third in his home-run jog. Anyway, on to the mail ...
Dave's World's most prolific Northern Idaho correspondent, Simon F., is back. He just returned from sitting outside his state senator's local office, where he waited until the esteemed elected representative stepped outside, then harangued him all the way out to his car about how he should be allowed to buy Schlitz with his food stamps. Now, wrestling occupies his mind:
Your Andre post brings up an interesting question — what the hell was
Moon Dog Rex doing in a one-on-one match with Andre the Giant? There
has to be some sort of accommodation for weight, does there not? Yes,
I know better, but I was thinking that perhaps it was a home match for
Moon Dog Rex and, thus, sanctioned by the Lunar Wresting Federation and
subject to their weight standards, which would, of course, be
weightlessness. This is the only way I can see this being fair.
(Dave's World interjects: Your first point is valid. LWF matches would go on for hours, as it is nearly impossible to pin someone on the moon. And had Rex tried to bodyslam Andre in a lunar setting, he probably would have tossed him about 20 feet. But holding a match in Philadelphia under LWF rules? Now that's just silly talk. Wrestling in the 1980s was fraught with delicate sociopolitical tension -- I daresay, had the Hulkster not fended off Nikolai Volkoff, there would likely be a hammer-and-sickle flag flying over the White House today -- and the amount of bureaucratic red tape it would take to allow such a match would have been a nightmare.)
Then again, throwing in SD Jones —- one of the all-time great tomato
cans —- into tag team match with Andre against Big John Studd and Ken Patera
is one of the great absurdities ever, like Chick Donovan beating Ole
Anderson on Georgia Championship Wrestling and then getting stomped in the post-match interview with Gordon Solie.
(DW: Now, Simon, you're back to good x's-and-o's chalk talk. Ole's signature strategy in the ring was to grab his opponent in an armlock and hold it until all parties involved -- oppponent, ref, announcers, fans, TV viewers -- fell asleep. On this occasion, however, Ole dozed off first and Chick scored the fluke pin, quite similar to how the Dolphins snuck off with a win over the Patriots on Monday Night Football last December).
And reader Jordan W. checks in on the inaugural Chile's Corner, via Chile's email:
Hey,
I just wanted to tell you that was a very nice column about being a Brewers
fan. I had very similar expierences to yours. I remember thinking the old ball and glove logo was the coolest thing ever because it was a baseball glove. It took me like 3 years until I finally was looking at it and saw the M and the B. It ranks
as my all time favorite logo. But yeah, as I'm writing this, I'm wearing an
old school Brewers hat with the logo. Just wanted to tell ya that was a great article and it brought back some memories of mine. Thanks!
THIS WEEK'S DAVE'S WORLD CONTEST: Last week, Jim Clark of Boston won a Tacoma Rainiers pocket schedule after sending me a detailed email about John Trautwein. This week, we'll send out a prize of similar value to the person who can best fill in the blank on the following sentence:
"I'd rather ________________ than watch the NBA Finals."
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