posted 2007/09/14 at 16:25
... because Wikipedia lists three baseball events for today next to each other. In 1987, the Toronto Blue Jays hit ten home runs against the Baltimore Orioles, the first time an MLB team reached double digits for home runs in a single game. Three years later, in 1990, Ken Griffey Jr. and his father hit back-to-back home runs on this date, the first time a father-son tandem had ever done so. These are nice, but more ominously, this was also the date in 1994 when a strike cancelled the remainder of the MLB season. I would argue that baseball is still feeling the effects of that last one. On that somewhat dark note, let's play the friday5.org Friday Five.
1. What was the last thing taken from you without your permission?
I generally don't have a problem with people taking things from me without my permission; I'm more than happy to let people run off with things that I'm not using at the moment. My main problem is in getting them back at some point; don't even ask how often I have to go into my sister's bedroom to take back stuff of mine she's "borrowed" for months on end. That being said, to answer the question as best I can remember, it would be the props I had built for me for Spectrum's 2003 Halloween Party, which I'd been storing in the Spectrum office until one day they got moved to someone else's house, and no amount of begging or pleading has yet to help me get these items back.
2. Who was the photographer the last time a picture of you was taken?
A staff photographer for UT's student newspaper when they did those stories on Un/Gagged a couple of winters ago.
3. When were you last taken by surprise?
When I went out to the garage earlier this week and found a Pac-Man machine in there.
4. When were you last taken for a ride (interpret literally or figuratively!)?
Literally, I can't remember the last time I was in a moving vehicle when I wasn't the driver. Figuratively ... let's just say it was last summer and not give any details because things will work out better that way.
5. Where were you the last time you wished to be "taken away from all this?"
Given my propensity for daydreaming, probably no more than three or four answers ago.
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