Dear dimwit on the phone

We only put the first two rounds of the NHL Draft in last night...

I'm sure we'll get tons of calls on missing the rest of the rounds.

 

Eh, you do what space allows. I always tried to run the agate on the various drafts --- except baseball, which has far too many rounds --- but that's the limitations of the printed page. When you're out of slits, you're out of pier.

 

Dear dimwit on the other side of the country, just because your favorite team drafted someone who went to college in my state, it doesn't mean you should keeping calling to ask random questions about said player that you should already know the answer to if you had watched the draft or just read one freaking story about the draft or that player.

Or spent 20 seconds to look up his profile online.

 

For baseball, we do the guys from our state. Thankfully, we're not in a place like California. I think this year we had 30 or 40 players drafted. That's pretty manageable.

 

We did that, too. Players from our region and the complete team list of the MLB club that had a rookie league team in our town. We'd often get guys drafted in the late rounds sent here the next week to play that summer in rookie Class A, so we ran that team's list.

 

This just popped into my mind. Some guy saw a televised replay of a Major League baseball game -- in February -- and called to ask if the season had started.

 

Who won the game?

 

I know, talk about burying the lede!

 

I will say this: www.sports-reference.com is great for researching historical data --- even individual game boxscores -- on all sorts of teams and players in a variety of sports.

 

That reminds me of an idea I had for MLB Network, ESPN Classic or whatever. "Random Game of the Day." Just pull some tape from the archive with no particular significance. Reds-Expos from 1989? Sure, why not? Think of all the money that could change hands. First one to find the box score, random fixed gambling...

 

Not a dimwit on a phone but a dimwit in real life.

I'm from New England and was out in San Francisco for a few weeks and caught a Giants game. I was in a bar pregame and struck up a chat with a few of the locals. They spoke highly of Fenway Park when they visited and spoke glowingly about how they got to watch the game from a field-level bar in right field.

Only problem, if you know Fenway, is that there never was, is, or will ever be a field level bar in right field. No matter how much I told them they were wrong they continuously told me that I didn't know the park well enough and would obviously have known about the bar.

I was in a good mood so I politely extricated myself from the conversation and the bar, but man oh man was it frustrating. Sorry, rant over. Now back to your regularly scheduled dimwit thread.

 

Dear dimwit commenter, while I would love to approve your comment calling a local official a "viscious drunk," I just cannot do that.