All right Jeff the wife is watching Fox sports I'm scared Dude what gives

[Raulandpinboy]

So okay Jeff what's going on I'm in my office typing away when I hear all this hooting and hollering from the living room.

I go to investigate and low and behold its my wife the jumbotron is on the fox network and she's watching a game between the Diamondbacks and the Braves.

Now mind you I never pay an interest into what she watches, which is mostly CNN MSNBC or the Soapnet channel.

But my wife who has never watched a sports game in her life is sitting there with a glazed look in her eyes, and saying things like "look at the pitcher… he's tall huh" or yelling things like "woo hoo Craig you the man baby you the man"

That much I don't mind, but she has surround sound on Jeff… surround sound dude, the last time I got to use surround sound was about a year ago that I came home, and everybody was away. I was all alone and got a chance to use it, of course my luck cable was out, all the satellites were affected by sun spots, so all I got to watch was the local Korean news broadcast but I got to use it none the less.

Now the house is shaking, the animals are all cowering in my office, one of my neighbors is in there with her wearing a snake hat, and all she said to me is I'm watching this out of respect for Jeff.

Jeff surround sound dude, this from a woman who wanted me to turn off the TV during the final episode of Star Trek Voyager, because she got a phone call, and did not want to leave the family room cause she was too comfy in her chair.

Jeff I like you… really I do, but somehow I don't think your wife is in the basement building and programming a wide area network yelling out "Sisco Routers you the man baby" or "look at the bandwidth on this T1" while looking at you and saying its out of respect for Raul that I do this.

All I want to know is how did you do it, a promise of that Lady and the Tramp LE pin she's wanted for a year now if she knows the final score… Was it mass hypnosis are any others out there experiencing the same results… A time delay trigger after touching your adventure pin… What????

I don't mind really, I just want to know. I have three DVD's just aching to be watched and the house has not been vacant since that time last year.

So be a pal what's the secret….

Man she just ran in here, and yelled GRACE JUST SCORED WOO HOO score 1 zip, in your face Florida boy.

Jeff I'm scared man… help me Obi-wan Pinobi you're my only hope. Or for that matter Obi-wan what's your wife watching right now. Hmmmm.

Pin men go see what your wives are watching, it might be contagious, or all part of Jeff's evil little plan to rule the world.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

Raul, we have the Braves/D-backs game on here too. Forget what Lauri's watching -- earlier today she was wearing a Diamondbacks jersey (says the colors are prettier than the Braves'). I think you might be on to something, dude.

Of course, I'm a Georgia native and proudly doing the tomahawk chop for the Braves, and trying to figure out why they picked now to do the 80's retro thing in their playing yesterday and the day before. I just hope Glavine stays contemporary enough to outpitch Johnson.

 

[MeanLaureen]

Durazo - you the man!!!!

 

[JudithM]

This thread is a stitch! We have been switching back & forth between games (Atlanta/Arizona & NY/Seattle). You can tell by the sound of the crowd which game is which. Raul, my husband & I are laughing so hard reading your note!

 

[Raulandpinboy]

Okay game over wife slowly returning back to normal. Wants ice cream and popcorn what's up with that.

Even I watched the last inning. Obi-wan how goes it in your house?

And the most important thing above all.


THE DIAMONDBACKS WIN WOO HOO ITS OFF TO THE WORLD SERIES.


I GET TO WATCH IT IN SURROUND SOUND YEEEEEEAAAA!!!!!!!!

Umm Jeff how's that wide area network in your basement doing? Thought I would ask just in case its there.

 

[Eeyore's Pal]

I was watching M*A*S*H, but there is a lot of noise coming from the TV in the other room. It's getting very distracting.

I heard some baseball playoffs were on, but now that they have extended them so that they're almost as long as hockey playoffs (which, as far as I can figure out, begin about four weeks into the season, and include all the teams, even the ones that have never won a game, and continue until it is so hot, even in Canada, that they can't cool the arenas enough to play), it's kind of lost its appeal.

Besides, it hasn't been the same since Reggie Jackson and Tommy John retired.

And then someone told me they added teams in Florida and Arizona???? What's up with that? I'm sure the person was confused. Probably just little league...

 

[TinkerKat]

And just HOW Happy is ARIZONA JEFF right now?
Inquiring minds wanna know!

Kathy

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

It goes well, Raul, despite the fact that the Braves lost. At least Lauri didn't say "in your face, peach boy."

Ah, well ... if any NL team had to make it to the World Series, I'm glad it's the Diamondbacks. They have a great mix of veteran talent and young blood, and it's great that players like Randy Johnson and Mark Grace made it to their first ever World Series. It'll be interesting no matter who they play -- the Seattle Mariners, Johnson's old team who have been hot this season, or the New York Yankees, with all that history behind them facing a 4 year old expansion team.

Plus, we know Jeff's happy.

Congrats to Arizona and to the Diamondbacks!

 

[karinmac]

It was a good day.

Won my holy grail on that e** site for less than half of what someone at the NFFC show was offering it.

The Diamondbacks are in the Series.

My Yankees are in the series!


It was a good day.



Let the games begin

 

[MickeysMom]

Hey Karin, if you don't mind me asking, what was the holy grail that you won?

 

[pintrader]

well some of us want you to know we missed you. Yea Diamondbacks. This means JJ is still too busy for the next ?? weeks. LOL Hmmm yeah RobYn what Is with that ya know they let a Florida have another football team a couple of years back and THEY went to the Superbowl the first year. Hmmmm

Karin, congratulations on the HG success!

JJ how much longer ya gonna be workin on those lanyards? Are they through yet???

 

[karinmac]

The Holy Grail I won was the full length Meg from Hercules along the 6 other pins of that set.

My new Holy Grail is the DL CM Castle with Drawbridge

 

[JudithM]

Raul, I've been thinking of your original post ... maybe you're behind this ... I think maybe you asked Jeff to talk/write a lot about the Arizona Diamondbacks ... so much so that your wife would want to watch the game. Your wife would think this was Jeff's idea. So she turns on the surround sound & enjoys it. Now that she has caught the Diamondback & surround sound "bugs," you got what you want - the wife now wants to continue watching Jeff's Diamondbacks & of course, you get surround sound, too!

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

After making a call to Ms. Cleo and my other psychic friends, I figured something must be up. Sure enough, the planets all aligned and Scorpio is in the house of Gemini while the North Star makes an obtuse angle with the bid dipper. So you see Raul, it was not my doing at all. It was a sign from the baseball gods. You wife just appears to be more spiritually aligned with the Cosmos than you do. I do have to admit, I was nearly ready to sacrifice a Bobblehead in the eighth inning when Kim came on to pitch.

In our house, things were slightly different. Rather than Trina doing web development, I had the sudden urge to sit at the sewing machine and make lanyards. It was creeping me out. Luckily, Craig Counsell making a diving play up the middle of the field brought me out of this domestic trance.

Overall, life is good in Arizona right now. Other than the fact that there were a handful of scalpers who hired 20 homeless guys to stand in line for $20 a day waiting for World Series tickets to go on sale. Seems that miffed the local baseball fans just a little to see these raggy guys standing in front of them waiting to buy 10 World Series tickets and all the time asking if they could spare some change. Hmm, I wonder of those homeless guys would stand in a pin line for me?

When your wife starts the wave around the dining room table, that is when you should start to worry. I don't think you can blame me for that. I tried that myself once and Trina smacked me in the ear with a spoon full of mashed potatoes. I have learned there are two things that Trina will not tolerate. First, no wave during dinner and second seats from Bank One Ballpark are not suitable dining room furniture. I just don’t get that either. After all, the seats have cup holders on the back so the kids will spill fewer drinks. This woman just doesn’t get it.


Jeff