Once in a while… you just have one of Those Days.
You know, the kind that start out beautifully and you lay out in the sun and forget you have class. They quickly turn sour when next you start walking into things like aggressive shrubberies, then forget to bring your goggles to lab. Toss in a wardrobe malfunction or two, and next you might struggle to properly pipette your chlorophyll and acetone solution, so you have to re-centrifuge all your samples. If you planned poorly, it is likely you would have to respond to a fire drill when you should have been studying for your midterms. And to top it all off, as Murphy would have it, finally during yoga you fall out of your half moon Ardha Chandrasana pose because you can’t stop thinking about how the Brewers let you down last postseason and now that they might actually make the wild card you’re afraid to get your hopes up. Right?
And you end up at your computer at eating too many baby carrots and raspberries and raw almonds and gluten-free rice crackers that are probably made with gmo corn and listening to sad folksy songs at 11pm, which really isn’t that late for a college student but really is late for a college student who wakes up at 7am every morning for 8 hours of science without baseball.
Ok. Enough. I promised no one I would not use this article to vent. I lied to no one.
Today on Throwback Thursday, the goal is to wash away the Those Day Woes with a slew of hilarious baseball bloopers from bygone and more-recently-bygone seasons, just in time and appropriately themed for storm season. That’s right, today we are haulin’ out the tarpaulin… or, more accurately, watching major league baseball stadium grounds grew folks fail at some tarp-pulling of their own.
…Remember how much fun you had in elementary school physical education class playing with a giant rainbow parachute? Well, did Mrs. Kellogg, your P.E. teacher, ever tell you what a marketable skill that could be? Yes, readers, there are some guys out there who get paid to do it, and sometimes, it looks like they have not had half the qualifying training that you or I had. Please enjoy:
It’s not quite as easy as these kids make it seem… Image via kidactivities.net
Marlins fans have probably never had more fun than on this rainy day in 1993. Yeah, I remember my first time trying to pull a tarp over (not) the infield…
Life as a professional athlete in the Texas Rangers organization can be stressful at times, so it’s nice to blow off some steam with a good old slip n slide…
These guys in Arlington wanted to simulate the parachute effect to remind them of better days in their childhood…
Sometimes it takes a whole dugout of Phillies to tame the tarpy beast…
You probably have never felt fear like looking back at a tarp rolling towards you like a gigantic human-propelled steam roller… Lucky for this guy, he makes it out of harm’s way.
Do you have a favorite baseball tradition? Is there a particular ghost of baseball past you would like to revisit? Ever wonder why they do what they do, and when they started doing it? If you have a suggestion, question, or submission for Throwback Thursday, contact Elise by tweeting @Elise_Myers.
