that whole routine drove em crazy, didn’t it??...i was a huge fan...
I know it is cheating, but I found the whole Spy-Vs-Spy routine between the pitcher and the officials, cameras, opposing team, and fans to be pretty funny.
I mean, after all, you KNEW the guy was known for it. Everyone was watching him. The cameras were on him. But still he managed to do his dirty deed and it drove them crazy.
It just amused me. It is like a dog that likes to steal human food. You know they do it. They know they do it. Everyone knows. Everyone watches. But still...when the time is right, the dog is in the corner wolfing down some purloined bit of human food.
I used to have a Golden Retriever who was fixated on food, and she was smart enough to know right from wrong.
But she would watch areas that she could exploit, and one of those was very young children holding food in their hands.
I watched, fascinated one day, as she stalked my very young nephew, maybe four years old, holding a ham sandwich in his hand.
He was carelessly flashing the sandwich about as he talked, and the dog, watching him like a hawk, stole silently up to his blind side where the sandwich was dangling in the air.
She didn’t just grab the sandwich and run, I think she correctly judged that a theft of that magnitude would bring immediate loss of the stolen food, and banishment from the room, if not the house.
So, she sidled up to my newphew, and like the alien in the movie “Aliens”, bared her teeth, which almost seemed to extend outward from her mouth like the alien, and genteely latched onto a small portion of the ham protruding from the bread, and smoothly extracted it, leaving my surprised and baffled nephew with a “hamless” sandwich!
I must say, I was so surprised and shocked, that the thought of chasing her down never even entered my mind!
When I think of Gaylord Perry with his spitball routine, it always reminded me of that! He just got away with it while everyone watched!
Me too! Loved them spitballs. Made it fun! Seriously...all fastballs all the time does is make it homerun derby essentially!