Hotdog & Friends

Constable Echelon

Red Sox. Tigers. Angels. Two to four tickets for every game of this homestand arrayed in front of me like playing cards with the following instruction: “Take your pick.”

Happens every year.

I nabbed two seats for last Tuesday’s Boston game, four seats for Wednesday’s Sawx show, and two for King Felix’s Latin American Baseball Day start against the Tigers last Saturday. The free duckets served as annual confirmation of Echelon’s Bombs Rule #1: Only suckers pay for Mariners tickets.

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Fig Jam

Do you remember that scene in Braveheart when William Wallace had been captured and was being “purified” by pain? When he was hung, then racked, and then disemboweled before a large crowd who began begging for mercy on Wallace’s behalf?  I remember that….

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Welcome to the Hotdog & Friends European Cup Preview. And don’t forget to sign up for the Fantasy League!

Switzerland - Your old buddy Hotdog has a horse in this race. Switzerland kicks off Euro 2008 this Saturday at 9 a.m. at St. Jakob Stadion, which was just a short ride on the #14 tram from my place in Basel. My adopted home for 18 glorious months, Switzerland stands a puncher’s chance to advance out of the group stage.

(editor’s note: most girls in Switzerland are not this attractive)

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