Saturday, April 2, 2016

Signs you are a true Wild Things fan


Recently, I saw a Facebook post entitled "16 Signs You're a True Wild Things Fan." It came, of course, from the Wild Things, and it contained some uniquely Wild Things items such as "You know what the 5th inning means ... hot and fresh from the oven cookies and milk behind home plate." I don't know if that means the milk is fresh from the oven or not.

There are a lot of things that were left off the list. I thought the readers of this blog could add a few. I'll get it started:

* You remember when they would give away a used car before the Friday night fireworks.

* You hear "There goes another customer for ProTech Auto Glass" in your sleep.

* You figured out that former manager Darin Everson put on the hit-and-run about 95 percent of the time when the count was 2 and 2.

* You hosted a Wild Things player or two ... or four .. as a host family.

* You've been told 15 years in a row that this is the season the Wild Things will win the Frontier League championship ... and you still believe.

* You remember Trinity High School athletic director Ricci Rich as the original Wild Things on-field between-innings MC.

Now, it's your turn. Time to add your "Signs you're a Wild Things fan" ...

8 Comments:

Anonymous Natural Grass said...

The shirt off Teke's back.
The Budd Baer car giveaway scam.
The real "Dillie" of a Wild Thing.
When they had a natural grass field.
Ross was the GM.
The first rain delay when the grounds crew did not have experience on putting the tarp on the field and the ushers and other employees helped.
"Run Roy run".
The Wild Things fan club.
Wild Things games televised.
Jason Elkins wild delivery.
Robert Gavin swearing on live TV when Teke went out to the mound to talk with him.

April 4, 2016 at 4:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I remember when the park was filled to capacity most nights, the ushers actually wiped your seat and made sure your needs were met. I remember the Budd Bear car giveaway, when the poor guy had a better chance of winning the lottery vs winning the car. I still remember the chant "give him the car". I remember when Ross was in charge, things ran a lot smoother. I remember when hot dogs were a buck. I remember the great give aways. I remember when parking was $3.00. I remember when there were a ton of season ticket holders. I remember the grass over by the bar area being full of young kids hoping to snag a ball. Oh, the memories. Now if I could only remember what I did yesterday.

April 5, 2016 at 4:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You remember the time the Wild Things had a GM that wasn't a scumbag.

April 7, 2016 at 10:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Be nice. Steve is a nice guy, just not qualified to be GM. He is not a scumbag. The scumbag is the one who named him GM.

April 12, 2016 at 1:54 PM  
Anonymous Disa Pointed said...

Be nice! Steve is not a scumbag. The scumbag is the one who appointed Steve as the GM. Steve is an excellent head groundskeeper.

April 12, 2016 at 1:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excellent? Have you seen the stadium and all of its fallingdownness?

April 14, 2016 at 10:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I remember when.....
Parking was $3.00 and you couldn't find a space.
Tickets were $5.00 / $8.00 / $10.00 and you couldn't buy a ticket.
USA Steak Buffet did the suite food and it was well worth buying a suite ticket.
Concession lines, though long, didn't take 3 innings to get a cold hot dog.
The owner knew a little about baseball, more about business, and a lot about the paying fans.
The organization had some, ah, well, organization. Chris Blaine is the only person still with the "organization" with any connection to when the Wild Things were relevant in this community.

April 20, 2016 at 5:57 PM  
Anonymous Disa Pointed said...

Steve has been there since day one also. I would rank him below Bill Defabio also since day one as the least relevant to the community.

April 22, 2016 at 6:44 PM  

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