21st Birthday.
Went to an Akron Aeros game, was hammered out of my mind, and in the 7th inning I heard over the PA....
The participants in tonight dizzy bat race are.... cut-paste-hero (not really they said my name) and some other guy....
Well, I have seen the dizzy bat race. 2 guys spin like crazy, the mascot doesn't and after you are nice and dizzy you run down the 3rd baseline. I have noticed that the mascot doesn't spin, so I made a sweet $5 bet with my buddies. I was going to tackle the mascot...
I told the other guy, he was going to win this race, because I was going to tackle 'orbit'.. So the race began, we were spinning like crazy and I was feeling great, they were yelling 'faster' and we spun faster. Then it happened, they told us to drop the bats and go...
All I could see was the red mascot so I grabbed it, picked it up over my shoulder and dumped it, almost right on home plate. I looked up in time to see the other guy flying into the dugout.
So the race was mine to win, I saw the finish line jumped up off orbit and sprinted down the line to win. Very crazy at the time, kinda dumb now, but I get a good laugh when I see those guys that were with me at the game.
I went back to my seat with my winning t-shirt, and collected my $5, I noticed one of my buddies was collecting $$ from nearly everyone in our section, he bet all of them I was going to tackle the damn thing and he made a fortune.
Thats all I got