Quite the crew waiting in Toledo.
Beth of I Didn’t Have My Glasses On has gone all mascot on us, Syracuse.
She’s taken her first shot in the great Syracuse Chiefs vs. Toledo Mud Hens blog vs. blog wager.
I will admit, so very grudgingly, that I do like the idea of a baseball character who goes by the name of Jim Flealand. Smart marketing by the Triple-A team of the Detroit Tigers, that one is.
However, I will point out with great gloat, with the first game of eight in the books, the scoreboard reads:
SYRACUSE 1, TOLEDO O
And here’s the blurry digital edition story from this morning’s daily to back up my brag.
Chiefs win! Mud Hens lose!!
Mark Bialczak 
Never underestimate the power of a Scooch.
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guess we each have our own version of a coot, yours in the human form, mine in the animal. (mud hen = coot in the animal kingdom)
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Is it really? Learn something new everyday.
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true stuff
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I always enjoy your enthusiasm and informative sporting posts! I am so glad that you remind others of the personal stories, too! Smiles, Robin
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This wager with Beth is smoking hot, Robin!
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Not far from me we have the Sugar Land Skeeters. A fitting name, as the mosquitoes are as big as baseball players here, Mark.
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Holy crap, Audrey, that must mean the mosquito bites are the size of football players!
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Well, I have a feeling they are, Mark! Our summer can often be like your winter. It’s best to always carry spray and a fly swatter, one in each pocket.
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If the ‘skeeter is too big for the swatter, you can knock it on the noggin’ with the spray can, right, Audrey?
We have the Cicero swamps just north of Syracuse, and the course that my nine-hole after-work golf league plays on is in that wetlands. The mosquitoes get quite annoyed with us golfers on certain Tuesday nights. We bring spray.
That reminds me. We start this week. Must buy bug spray.
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Yes, and I am fairly good at that, I must say. You should see me, Mark.
Yes, and we have the same sort here, however, I must say I worry more about the gators…
This week! Hey, how’s your game looking this year? Good? I’m a heck of a putterer (laughs), you know.
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And I’m a good driver, Audrey. I jump in my car, turn the key …
Heck of a putterer! You crack me up. 🙂
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Hmm. Now that takes talent, Mark. Are you self taught? I no longer have a key for my car. It’s is the strangest feeling to push a button..
It’s true! Haha…
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New-fangled!
How long I have waited to say that!!
I learned how to drive in the days when you stuck your feet down to the road and ran. Fred Flintstone taught me, Audrey.
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It’s all sorts of shiny, Mark. Tisn’t old school at all.
Haha! I like that phrase.
I learned to drive with my father in the back seat holding a six pack of beer. I learned the three on the tree quickly on a 67 Chevy!
I used to watch that show! I was once Wilma for Halloween, and back in college I was Pebbles. I had a bone in my hair and everything. It was really quite something!
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Red hair, it had to be, Audrey. U.S. Halloween law.
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I had no idea. I’m thrilled when it all works out. I’m not cut out for jail time.
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Um… Yay, sports! 😉
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But Rachel, can you not appreciate a mascot with the name of Jim Flealand? Please? For me?
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LOL! Yes, I can appreciate the name if not the sports team he represents. 😉
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Sports bore me, but you seem to make them interesting.
Jolly Good.
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Well that’s very cool, Lance. Thank you.
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Go Chiefs! Sure hope there aren’t too many Chiefs and not enough Indians there Mark. But still, Cpl. Klinger never mentioned the Chiefs on M*A*S*H*, so they aren’t as famous as the Mud Hens. Have to be diplomatic here, since I’m not that much into sports, although I do at least understand baseball and the draw of the “BATTER UP” roar.
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You are smart to love the Batter Up call, Angie, and we’re not talking the call for more pancakes at Denny’s, neither of us.
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Obligatory but heartfelt cheering going on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOT WOOOOOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Y’all are making me miss our Richmond Braves.
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But you have the Flying Squirrels!
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But that’s a whole other league! It’s not the same!
😀
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