Sepia Monday in O.C.

A view from right field with Big Screen access. An unseen right angle is formed by the foul line and the fould pole. However, "any ball hitting the foul pole is a fair ball." That is Baseball's Delicious Irony #37.
Delicious Irony #1 is "Hit it where they aint." (Wee Willie Keeler)

To protect the identities of these four members of Tailgate Partyers Anonymous, I cropped their heads.

It didn't really matter because they were not drinking alcohol in the stadium parking lot. But I declined their offer of barbecqued schnitzel.

There is an Angel on the basepath and another Angel is stepping up to the plate.
(Bobby Wilson & Mike Trout*)

In the Grand Concourse of the stadium, there was an exhibit of moon rocks and the lunar surface. (Courtesy of NASA)

A Royal from Kansas City is on the basepath as another Royal steps up to the plate. Fooey on them!
We won 6-3.
The pitcher/catcher combination is called the "battery." At this game, the Angels' battery was Wilson/Wilson. C.J. threw his pitches to Bobby.

More than one thousand people at Angels' Stadium were doing the same thing as this woman. Can you blame them?
Call me Exhibit #3 because I posted photographs from this game on at least three blog pages. To access the others, please enter "Angels" in the search engine.



*Will Mike Trout ever have his picture on the cover of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA?

I Wish I Were In London

In this Olympic summer, there is no shortage of celebration in London. But–at this pure text moment–I would like to wish someone a very HAPRE BIRTHDAY.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. It is so much nicer than most of what is beneath it.

Father Frank Once Said

Father Frank once said

If Joe Dimaggio doesn't prove the existence of God, then Marilyn sure does!

Angelic Sepia Monday in O.C.

FIVE
BASEBALL
TRIVIA
QUESTIONS:

Who is probably surfing as I write this but definitely wasn't surfing when he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1986?

Which two of these five are also in the Cooperstown Hall of Fame?
Which of these two influenced 22-year-old All-Star Mark Trumbo's batting stance?

Who Scosciaed chauffered managed the Angels into their first play-offs? He has also hit more triples than any other Halo in history.

Which Angel played on both that 1979 team + the 1982 play-off team. He is also the answer to a handful of very select baseball trivia questions.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIVE MORE QUESTIONS:
Which Angelic Hall of Famer was a roommate of Babe Ruth?

Who is the Angels' all-time winningest pitcher?

Which Hall of Famer made cowboy movies and an Art Museum?

Who may be the only the only baseball player ever to use the word "paramount" in a sentence and has the same last name as "Hank Aaron's Best Friend"?

Who owns something nightmarish that was formerly owned by a President of the United States? Hint: the nightmare rhymes with "Strangers."

Regal in Her Rotundity...

Hertha is truly Reubenesque and at ease in a pillow palace of her vacation home.
But don't let the photos fool you: this pure pug is equal in mass to four chihuahaus.

Between the cushions, her brother, Miller, slumbers sweetly.

Their friends at LORD WINDSOR ROASTERS wish them a fond farewell and the best of bacon bits.

Coincidentally, bacon bits are the subject of the chihuahua's dream.

Hello, August

Hello August

How do you do?

I welcome you

With a two-day old Shoe


AND...


Laryngitis

In a bird

Made the most dipless doo-wop

Ever heard

But fret not the songwriter

As you will see

For justice trumped genius:

He is under lock & key.