Scooter!
Just once, I want to see Fox's Scooter, the little animated baseball that demonstrates different pitches to all the little kiddies, show a scuff ball. He'd pull out a razor blade, cut open his forehead, and scream "owww!!! That hurts!!!" as blood trickled down his face. Then after he grimaced he'd get that goofy grin back on his face and say something like "now I can do things I've never done before!" and dip his way over the outside corner.
As I was typing that, Chone Figgins just got thrown out at third. Figgins is a long-running in-joke with my good friend Chile Hidalgo. I saw Figgins for the first time while we were watching a game a couple years back, and I asked something like "So does he pronounce that "Choan" or "Sho-nay?" Whereupon I was informed that he pronounced it "Shawn."
Anyway, we started calling him "Choan," and then it really picked up in the ALDS last year when Figgins bumbled his way all over the field. From there, we started yelling "Choan!" anytime we were watching sports and someone screwed up something basic.
Of course, Figgins has hit two home runs in this series, but when he muffed that routine fly in right earlier in the game, that was a definite "Choan!" moment.
Its a good thing Choan got thrown out, too, because Embree is struggling. Again.
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