Bread and circuses at the baseball game, except the bread, wrapped abound a hot dog, costs $5. Another wacky thing they do at Busch Stadium to entertain the crowd is to hold a fake dance contest. One contestant is wearing Cardinals something-or-other, the other a shirt of the visiting team. It's sponsored by Hardee's, a Midwestern and Southern fast food chain that sells things that tend to make you dead faster.
Anyway, this goes on between innings in a grass strip behind center field, right below the giant video screen seen yesterday. The visitors' supporter is always geeky, dancing like an arthritic robot. The home team's representative might actually be talented, or at least full of reckless enthusiasm. It was the latter on Saturday afternoon. This gentleman's shirt read Die Hard Cards Fan. The back reminded us that Cubs really stands for Completely Useless Before September, the last month of the baseball season. He won, of course, and was awarded a cheap plastic replica of the World Series trophy. Remember from yesterday that the Cardinals win it occasionally and the Cubs win it, well, never.
The crowd went wild.
Anyway, this goes on between innings in a grass strip behind center field, right below the giant video screen seen yesterday. The visitors' supporter is always geeky, dancing like an arthritic robot. The home team's representative might actually be talented, or at least full of reckless enthusiasm. It was the latter on Saturday afternoon. This gentleman's shirt read Die Hard Cards Fan. The back reminded us that Cubs really stands for Completely Useless Before September, the last month of the baseball season. He won, of course, and was awarded a cheap plastic replica of the World Series trophy. Remember from yesterday that the Cardinals win it occasionally and the Cubs win it, well, never.
The crowd went wild.
comme quoi le ridicule ne tue pas ;o)) (et heureusement) j'aime ce délire et cette fraicheur toute américaine (je dis ça, mais une fois je suis passe sur le grand écran de times square, mon 15 secondes de gloire New Yorkaise ;o)) )
ReplyDeleteUmmmmm....
ReplyDeleteI lived in St. Louis from age 12 - 18 in 1963 - 69, so I am a die hard Cardinals fan. Your photo today does not present the most flattering image of die hard Cardinals fans, however.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the Cubs beat the Cardinals, I think the defeat can be put into perspective by a Cubs fan who I saw wearing a t-shirt that said "Any team can have a bad century."
Hope his mom is proud!
ReplyDeleteWEll maybe baseball is more fun than I thought.
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One thing I miss about living in a big city, baseball games and the 5.00 hot dog. Nice shots.
ReplyDeleteSometimes we're just strange!
ReplyDeleteAs to your question - the orange in my photo is pretty much how it is in "real life". The wall was a splotchy gray and was just too flat, so I increased the contrast to darken it up. I added a bit of texture to certain parts of the wall to make it stand out better. I also burned the edges of the entire photo to bring the focus in.