Opening Day

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:21 pm

No, I meant the problem of Breckenridge's Brewery existing or not existing was solved, dummy.

n/t

by **Base Monitor** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:19 pm

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THATS ONE PROBLEM SOLVED? DID YOU BAN ME?

DID YOU BAN BASE MONITOR?

n/t

by **History's Favorite Mute!** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:07 pm

by **Greg** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:06 pm

Base Monitor wrote:PLEASE EXPLAIN YOURSELF MORE METICULOUSLY IN THE FUTURE.

n/t

But shouldn't the Base Monitor have some reading comprehension skills?

I declare this Base Monitor dead

n/t

Greg

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:57 pm

Well, that's one problem solved.

n/t

by **Base Monitor** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:47 pm

I THOUGHT YOU MEANT BRECKENRIDGE BREWERY DIDNT EXIST ANYMORE. "GOODBYE BRECKENRIDGE BREWERY". I GUESS YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY AT WHATEVER SPORTS ARENA YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.

PLEASE EXPLAIN YOURSELF MORE METICULOUSLY IN THE FUTURE.

n/t

by **bruce** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 7:49 pm

Base Monitor wrote:IT WOULD BE COOL IF ANYONE WHO POSTED ANYTHING HERE WAS REQUIRED TO HAVE ANY IDEA WHATSOEVER WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT.

Um, WTF?

It looks like Avalanche Ale--which is a fine Breckenridge product, which I've drunk my share of in my time--has NOTHING TO DO with Coors "Shitty Avalanche Beer". Which was, like the point, n'est pas?

Bruce

by **Base Monitor** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 7:41 pm

IT WOULD BE COOL IF ANYONE WHO POSTED ANYTHING HERE WAS REQUIRED TO HAVE ANY IDEA WHATSOEVER WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT.

HTTP://WWW.BRECKBREW.COM/OURBEERS/AVALANCHE.HTML

n/t

by **Guest** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 7:29 pm

bruce wrote:On the other hand--not too surprisingly--all the beer they sell at Busch Stadium is AB product. Bleah.

In the early days of the Colorado Avalanche, they allowed the Breckenridge Brewery to sell its mighty fine "Avalanche Ale" (the third-best beer of all time) at McNichols Arena.

Sadly, somewhere along the way, Coors signed a deal to provide "Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup Brew". And goodbye Breckenridge Brewery.

It was a sad, sad day.

Greg

by **Adolphus Busch III** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 11:22 pm

by **bruce** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 8:39 am

Anonymous wrote:
bruce wrote:"drinking Scotch in my basement and playing Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision/NES/SNES" ?
I can do that, certainly. I'm not fickle.

But you do realize that they sell BEER at sporting events? Real, crappy beer!

Greg

Yep. That was the best thing about the Trenton Thunder: River Horse beer on draft at the stadium.

On the other hand--not too surprisingly--all the beer they sell at Busch Stadium is AB product. Bleah.

Bruce

by **Guest** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:28 pm

bruce wrote:"drinking Scotch in my basement and playing Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision/NES/SNES" ?

I can do that, certainly. I'm not fickle.

But you do realize that they sell BEER at sporting events? Real, crappy beer!

Greg

by **bruce** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:08 pm

bruce wrote: By "sporting event", do you mean "drinking Scotch in my basement and playing Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision/NES/SNES"

And when I say "Atari" I mean that you can have your choice of Super Pong, 2600, or 7800.

Bruce

by **bruce** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:07 pm

Anonymous wrote:I'll call. We'll go to a sporting event!!!

By "sporting event", do you mean "drinking Scotch in my basement and playing Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision/NES/SNES" ? Because if so that's cool, but if you mean, like, a real sporting event, then you should see my earlier post about how much I don't actually go to sporting events and realize that you're going to have to drive because I'm going to get shitfaced and then I'll keep bugging you with questions, like, at a Cards game, "did he just score a touchdown? Was that a three-pointer? Where's my silly mid off sticky wicket, huh?"

Bruce

by **Guest** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:16 pm

bruce wrote:If you're frequently in St. Louis, how come you haven't called, beeeaytch?

Ok, it hasn't been that frequently lately, I guess. Sometime this year, though.

I'll call. We'll go to a sporting event!!!

Greg

by **bruce** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:13 pm

Anonymous wrote: I don't love baseball any more, but I still strongly like it, and when I go to a game in other cities (Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, other areas I frequently find myself in)

If you're frequently in St. Louis, how come you haven't called, beeeaytch?

Bruce

by **Guest** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:05 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
Nobody lives and dies by the Rockies.
The fans out here really are lousy.

True, and there's two reasons for that... 1) the utter mismanagement of the Rockies over the years, and 2) the sheer perfection of going to a Rockies game.

I don't love baseball any more, but I still strongly like it, and when I go to a game in other cities (Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, other areas I frequently find myself in) -- I mostly concentrate on the game.

But in Colorado, the weather's always a perfect 75 degrees except in April (and October, but ha-ha, the Rockies won't be playing in October for some years!), they serve Fat Tire at the stadium, the seats are comfortable, there's a bevy of beautiful Colorado women around, and oh, about the sixth inning, an astonishing sunset over the stadium horizon.

I go to that, and midway through the game, I'm drunk, happy, leering, and completely unaware that there's baseball going on.

Whereas at Braves games, the seats are uncomfortable, the beer sucks, it's hot and sticky, and so I'm able to maintain yelling "Larry" and "how's your wife" at Chipper Jones in a derisive manner throughout.

Greg

by **bruce** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:36 pm

AArdvark wrote:
River Otters
Water polo team?

United Hockey League.

All the band camp stories are true. Although the fun thing about college marching bands (well, really I only have experience with college scatter bands) is that, unlike in high school where you had to save up all your debauchery for band camp and be sort of circumspect about it, in college bands you can be totally up-front and don't have to sneak around.

I mean, just from personal experience, I can talk about, let's see: both sex and Schedule I controlled substances in the bathroom of the band bus, fitting six naked people into a standard-sized bathtub, nearly getting kicked out of games/parades/various events because of too little circumspection with the flask, a drink called "sock water" whose primary ingredient was, well, sock water, and a song entitled "Tertiarysyphiliticcuntuponmypeter." I can't count the number of tollbooth attendents I've drunkenly mooned from the band bus window. And shit, that's just the Princeton band, not the RIce band (although it was a lot tamer and mostly restricted itself to spiked watermelons and beer on the road trips...although it may just have been that I didn't know the right people).

Bruce

by **AArdvark** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:26 pm

A good fan is one that almost got his wedding cancelled because his beloved Angels were going to the playoffs and he's got season tickets. Not the World series but two opponents before them. Dude was gonna throw his bride to be in the waiting room while he and his buddy went to the game.

See, I played in the band (yes, with the plaid jackets) in a futile attempt to preserve my sanity and a not-so-futile attempt to meet nubile nerdy women.

Shoulda went to band camp. I heard stories.....!

River Otters

Water polo team?

THE
SPORTS!
AARDVARK

by **bruce** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:45 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Captain's Log, Supplemental:
What the fuck is a "St. Louis Swarm"? When are people going to learn that singular nick names just don't work?

It is/was an IBL basketball team.

I think I got spoiled for sports by, of all things, graduate school in the Ivy League.

See, I played in the band (yes, with the plaid jackets) in a futile attempt to preserve my sanity and a not-so-futile attempt to meet nubile nerdy women. And so I was there for Pete Carrill's last season of coaching basketball, and I was sitting in the stands when a bunch of short skinny white guys beat the defending national champions in the NCAA playoff first round.

It's been hard to find a sport that can live up to that kind of spectator fun.

Bruce

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