[NA] Why baseball tickets are expensive: $43 bottles of Heinz ketchup

[astanley]

I'm glad the dude hot shotting my grocery boxes wasn't an engineer. I've picked em up at 80,000lbs on my crane. (not a real worry with a 70 ton crane, when you have a 40, it's a lot more interesting....)

I got called into the office by the big boss, "Can you take all these tanks of drilling fluid out to the Nansen Spar?" I looked at the list and weights and arms and said "No". "What do you mean No? You didn't do any calculations...", "Alright, no worries, I'll bring you what you want, gotta go to the boat for awhile...." Went down and well, oilfield stability books are a bit remedial, and rightfully so. So I built a stability calculator for the vessel, just a slightly more complicated form of a W/B calculator, in Excel with an envelope graph and all that and brought it to him on a disc along with various trials and solutions for the problem he handed me. "Here you go, load that, it says "No" as well. But I can take all but these three and those can go on a crew boat." Now this was a big drunk Scotsman out of the Aberdeen oil field companies. They aren't much more sophisticated than the G.O.M. His jaw was hanging. This was the first time in his career that he hadn't been able to bully someone into taking out an unsafe load. At this point any misfortune would land him in prison and leave the company in a position of gross negligence. The downside was I had to now build a stability calculator for all the boats in the fleet off of their book.

No good deed goes unpunished...

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[flyingcheesehead]

I'm glad the dude hot shotting my grocery boxes wasn't an engineer.
...
I looked at the list and weights and arms and said "No". "What do you mean No? You didn't do any calculations..."

Oh, I didn't have to pull out all the stops very often... Only about every other year or so! The rest of the time, it was more like: Pull off the dock, grab the left-hand door, begin to close it, look in the trailer... "Are you F'in kiddin' me?" latch the door open again, back onto the dock, go inside and show them how to load a trailer. Or, mostly, how to read. "Hey buddy, see where it says in big black letters on the side of the trailer, 'Do not load 46,000 pounds past 46' mark?' Do you see the huge black line that says '46 feet' in huge black letters? D'ya think we were kidding?"

 

[mikea]

Even Dirty Harry knows, "Nobody, I mean NOBODY, PUTS KETCHUP ON A HOT DOG!"

We'll be revoking Richard Roeper's Chicago citizenship:

All due respect to Dirty Harry, I'm with the detective on this one.

When Neil Steinberg recently wrote a gorgeously evocative piece about the closing of the legendary Harry's Hot Dogs, he talked to the last two customers in the 54-year history of Harry's.

The man had put mustard on his hot dogs. The woman had put mustard and ketchup on hers. Neil also mentioned the mustard and ketchup on his last dog.

Had I been there with him, I would have reached for the ketchup as well.

These days, I have a hot dog maybe two-three times a year -- but I never bought in to the "Chicago-style hot dog" legend. That whole "mustard, onion, sweet pickle relish, dill pickle spear, tomato slice, pickled sport peppers, dash of celery salt thing." Really?

http://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/1545393,CST-NWS-roep27.article

All respect to ol' Harry (Hot Dog Harry, not Dirty Harry), I told many a visitor that Harry's Hot Dogs shouldn't be allowing ketchup on the dogs so easily. Mike North used to hand people a bottle and say, "You do it. What you're doing is a sin."

 

[ReverendSlappy]

Whoa whoa whoa... How'd I miss all this?

All responses I have typed to this section involved threats of violence. I may have to drop a chunk of rotting concrete on you next time I... oh, wait, Wrigley will do that for me. Nevermind.

Monty Python-style, I'd fart in your general direction. But being a fan of the open sewer, the giant toilet, the feculent hole in the ground they call "Fenway Park", I suspect you'd enjoy it.

Here we go, Greg Maddux. What next? Fergie? You guys did it to yourselves, this whole "drought" -- trying to fix 1918 has a way of haunting a team, you know?

Just like a Red Sox fan: Whine and complain about a World Series that they won.

I feel like I'm talking with my brother -- I want to laugh my a** off while punching him and grabbing a brew and the game afterwards.

Cheers,

-Andrew

You know what you can do with your Sam Adams, pal?

 

[ReverendSlappy]

We'll be revoking Richard Roeper's Chicago citizenship:



All respect to ol' Harry (Hot Dog Harry, not Dirty Harry), I told many a visitor that Harry's Hot Dogs shouldn't be allowing ketchup on the dogs so easily. Mike North used to hand people a bottle and say, "You do it. What you're doing is a sin."

I'm not proud to admit it, but I prefer it without the pickle and the tomato.

Just gets too watery.

 

[ReverendSlappy]

You know what you can do with your Sam Adams, pal?

Oh, and Andrew: What's the deal with Celtics games? Does every fan have to sign a "I am going to cry like a little girl about every whistle" pledge immediately upon entering the Boston Garden? I mean my GOD...

 

[astanley]

Oh, and Andrew: What's the deal with Celtics games? Does every fan have to sign a "I am going to cry like a little girl about every whistle" pledge immediately upon entering the Boston Garden? I mean my GOD...

Oh, come on. Come ON. This coming from a guy who had master whiner Rodman on his team? (3-2, love it)

Onto another point. I was standing in line at a hotel this afternoon and in front of me was an older, large male. He had a stack of "Chicago Cubs Medical Scouting Report" forms, filled out, and was faxing them one at a time. I almost wanted to crack "So, you are the guy who hooks the fans and crushes their hopes later?"

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[ReverendSlappy]

Oh, come on. Come ON. This coming from a guy who had master whiner Rodman on his team? (3-2, love it)

I won't defend Rodman in that regard... But you all take it to a whole new level: It's the whole team and everybody in the stadium. And, apparently, a number of members of the press:

According to the Boston Herald, a member of the Celtics' traveling contingent was taken aback at the sight of the crew exiting the United Center after the game with family members who were Bulls fans. The Boston Globe, citing an NBA source, reported that the officials were Marc Davis and Dan Crawford.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30456460/

You know, I'm pretty sure I saw one of the refs from last night's game order a Shamrock Shake a few weeks ago. Shamrock Shakes are... GREEN! WAAAAAAH!

Sissies.

Onto another point. I was standing in line at a hotel this afternoon and in front of me was an older, large male. He had a stack of "Chicago Cubs Medical Scouting Report" forms, filled out, and was faxing them one at a time. I almost wanted to crack "So, you are the guy who hooks the fans and crushes their hopes later?"

Cheers,

-Andrew

HilARious.

 

[Richard]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/cnn-news/19150877/detail.html

$43000 of ketchup, 996 bottles = $43/bottle. Could it be they meant 996 cases? Can you put 996 cases in a typical semi?

(paging Kent... paging Kent...)

Assuming one case = 1.8 cu ft, one 40' trailer would be half full.

 

[astanley]

I won't defend Rodman in that regard... But you all take it to a whole new level: It's the whole team and everybody in the stadium. And, apparently, a number of members of the press:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30456460/

You know, I'm pretty sure I saw one of the refs from last night's game order a Shamrock Shake a few weeks ago. Shamrock Shakes are... GREEN! WAAAAAAH!

Sissies.

Cry cry, I'm from Chicago, it's cold in the winter, hot in the summer, I don't know what to put on a hot dog, these people from Wisconsin won't leave me alone, my baseball team sucks (^2), my football team sucks, all of the hockey fans drove in from Kenosha, cry cry.

HilARious.

I seriously wish I stole a copy of the forms. The top one was blank, and I could have had a field day with it.

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Cry cry, I'm from Chicago, it's cold in the winter, hot in the summer, I don't know what to put on a hot dog, these people from Wisconsin won't leave me alone, my baseball team sucks (^2), my football team sucks, all of the hockey fans drove in from Kenosha, cry cry.

 

[mikea]

Cry cry, I'm from Chicago, it's cold in the winter, hot in the summer, I don't know what to put on a hot dog, these people from Wisconsin won't leave me alone, my baseball team sucks (^2), my football team sucks, all of the hockey fans drove in from Kenosha, cry cry.

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I'm from Wisconsin and all dem guys drive up from Chicago and put us down as cheeseheads and steal da occasional decent looking wimmin.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

I'm from Wisconsin and all dem guys drive up from Chicago and put us down as cheeseheads and steal da occasional decent looking wimmin.

Just for that, I put a double dose of ketchup on my hot dogs at dinner tonight.

 

[gprellwitz]

Just for that, I put a double dose of ketchup on my hot dogs at dinner tonight.

Eeek! I'm gagging! Eeek!

 

[ScottM]

Just for that, I put a double dose of ketchup on my hot dogs at dinner tonight.

I am sure I will see you picture up soon in the Chicago post offices, 'Kent Shook: Wanted for desecration of a wiener"



But I guess that fact that you will have to eat dog with extra ketchup on it may be punishment enough!

 

[ScottM]

I don't know why but I am posting this anyways.

It is not like this picture is going to fit in any other thread we would ever have here.

But do note, NO KETCHUP!!

BTW is that Willow?

 

[flyingcheesehead]

What the hell is that, some kind of salad?

This one's for you, Mike and Scott:

 

[ScottM]

This one's for you, Mike and Scott:

We have rules here about posting pornography you know that right Kent? Not to mention the rules prohibiting trolling. You posted that pornographic picture to attack an insult the hot dog gourmands on this board. Your filthy display demeans the noble frankfurter and uses it for your own self interests. I say, that in all honesty, that is the foulest image I have ever seen and I certainly hope that the great little Oscar rises up from his place at the grill of G-d and smites you with his mighty sausage!

 

[gprellwitz]

This one's for you, Mike and Scott:

That picture is subject to copyright. You can send the royalty check to the Institute for the Reform of People Who Eat Dogs With Ketcup (IRPWEDWK).

 

[SkyHog]

So we're BBQing Kielbasa and Hamburgers tonight.

Guess what the toppings will be?

You guessed it, Ketchup and mustard. Not of that fruity Chicago topping.

 

[woodstock]

On either, I will put ONLY ketchup and mustard ("or") and nothing else. bleh.

 

[ScottM]

So we're BBQing Kielbasa and Hamburgers tonight.

Guess what the toppings will be?

You guessed it, Ketchup and mustard. Not of that fruity Chicago topping.

Those are not hot dogs, so you can put Ketchup and Mustard on them.

 

[SkyHog]

Mmmmm mmmmmmm.....bratwurst!

 

[Keith Lane]

We have rules here about posting pornography you know that right Kent? Not to mention the rules prohibiting trolling. You posted that pornographic picture to attack an insult the hot dog gourmands on this board. Your filthy display demeans the noble frankfurter and uses it for your own self interests. I say, that in all honesty, that is the foulest image I have ever seen and I certainly hope that the great little Oscar rises up from his place at the grill of G-d and smites you with his mighty sausage!

Note the sad looking condiments being forced to witness this in the background.

BTW, I'm a big fan of ketchup, but then I grew up in the then "barely recovered from the War of Northern Aggression" South. We even put ketchup on our grits.

 

[vontresc]

I normally only use mustard on brats, the only exception being Currywurst.