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As per wikipedia: "In Southern Africa, a popular variation is the Malawi shandy, which is made with half lemonade, half ginger beer, and a few dashes of Angostura bitters."

Maybe they only use coarse beer? Wiki tells me there are Rock Shandies which are for teetotalers. I'd be game to try the ginger beer varieties sometime.

I did not know this. I am intrigued, and may be trying something new shortly.

Yeah, that's what i meant. Safety squeeze, not bunt... When life gives you lemons, eh?

Hicks' single gets Herrmann to third, and the Santanian safety bunt brings him for 2-0 score!

Er, that is, the Right Stauff. Celebrate it with the Stauff fest. (Regretting the first joke when wondering what a Boyer situation might be...)

Herrmann, meet the Green Monster. Green Monster, Herrmann. And Rosario cruises home from second for a 1-0 lead.

Clearly it was not Stauff enough...

Is stranded at 3rd. Oh well.

Da bull - Dozier!

It sure is a new take on the Die Hard franchise...

And to get ya discussing the night cap... (be it a head ornament or a beverage) Round 2 of the thread intros... Well, the actual theme of this secondary game thread intro is: "It seemed like a good idea at the time. 0. "Second verse, same as the first. A little bit louder, and a little bit worse." (actually i don't know from where i heard that... i should. But yeah, clever, but wrong sentiment for this double header) 1. David HK (who's now asleep) recognized a quote from the 80's cult classic Repo Man, where Harry Dean Stanton's character Bud mentors Emilio Estevez' character Otto in the automotive reposession industry. I thought it would be funny to paraphrase some lines from that movie as Hunter mentorin' Hicks... "I shall not allow a ball to drop, or allow a baserunner to advance by missing the cutoff, or through not backing up, allow a fellow outfielder's baserunner to advance. It's what we call 'The Outfielder's Code'. Not many people have a code to live by..." 2. I know it's never wrong to bring up the Princess Bride, but it probably can be done too often, and reading too much into things is perhaps the path to madness. "I want to do him left handed. If i use my right, it's over too quickly." is not the reason Perkins throws lefty... More recently, "Leaving 20 for me. At my best, i could never defeat that many...I need Gardy to plan, I have no gift for strategy." "But Gardy is fired." "No not Gardy, I need the man in black (aka Molitor)" I'll leave someone else to imagine the battle of wits, if they care to. 3. Trash talking. I don't think i have to explain why it is a bad idea. On the other hand, i'm not bring it up in any serious fashion, but merely as a joke to lighten the mood. Not Trash talking, but trash singing (with a youtube link...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izv0FfUqUrc 4. Too little too late. As poems go, it might have been nice to relate the one concerning the lights on the old Hancock tower so as Chief and Chief Jr. would know their significance: (from the wikipedia page for the Berkeley Building, aka the Old Hancock tower) "It is topped by a weather beacon with red and blue lights, which use a code to present the local weather forecast,[1][2] using a popular rhyme as a mnemonic: Steady blue, clear view. Flashing blue, clouds due. Steady red, rain ahead. Flashing red, snow instead. During baseball season, flashing red means the Boston Red Sox game has been called off on account of weather." But alas, the chance use this info seems past. It's kinda like Escobar's 9th inning homerun. 5. Actually mentioning Baseball again. I'm bad at that, and leave it to the end (Now that the lineups are finally out): Trevor May pitching with his right arm for the Twins. 1. Brian Dozier playing 2nd Base, and batting from the right side. 2. Torii Hunter hitting for Trevor May and also on the right side. 3. Joe Mauer covering first, and batting on the left side of the plate. 4. Trevor Plouffe manning 3rd base, and weilding a right handed bat. 5. Eddie Rosario in Right field and batting lefty. 6. Eduardo Escobar covering Left field and batting such that balls break towards him. 7. Chris Herrmann Catching and batting lefty. 8. Aaron Hicks, the switch hitting Centerfielder. 9. Danny Santana, switching the short hitting stop. While Host Boston trots out Rick Porcello, a right handed tosser. And will parade these characters to the plate, only to be mown down until in humilty they cry "Uncle" 1. Dustin Pedroia {R} 2B 2. Brock Holt {L} RF 3. David Ortiz {L} DH 4. Mike Napoli {R} 1B 5. Pablo Sandoval {S} 3B 6. Xander Bogaerts {R} SS 7. Mookie Betts {R} CF 8. Blake Swihart {S} C 9. Carlos Peguero {L} LF anod now, (or in an hour plus) Play ye the ball!

The Game! Fantastic movie. One of those movies you can recommend, but you shouldn't give any more information so as not to taint their appreciation. In my crazy double feature world, i've wanted to watch it with Hudsucker Proxy...

"I don't want a pickle..." Oh, glad to have ya back LaBombo!

Heads up base running by Santana to get to 3rd on Dozier's single. Up steps Mauer...

These days, Suzuki seems to have a blunderbuss... Santana stops it though, to keep the runner at 2nd. Fly out ends inning so it don't matter. CBU says it be 6-1 Red Sox after 7.

5-1 Red Sox CBU, as Hughes is chaste. Er, i mean chased. Santana on with an infield single to deep short. (I don't know if i'm proud of my restraint, or kicking myself for a missed joke opportunity while Toronto was the opponent of using the adjective Santanian) And a walk to Dozier. Is something brewing?

I'm mildly encouraged by 8 hits (2 doubles) and a walk over 4 innings yielding only 3 runs. But we're still behind.

Think! What did we do against Toronto?

The phrase i'm fond of is "jumping jesus on a pogo stick" (which is from a dead milkman's song, i believe) But that's pretty good too!

Boston has a 2-1 advantage halfway through the third.

No i think we should disagree about agreeing... (er, to disagree?)

I'm sitting on top of the third...

Congrats to him! Look forward to it.

Play ball! (CBUish)