The Numbers Game
- Alex
As I'm sure at least one of you noticed (because Becca flat out told me), I failed to post a gambit on Friday. The simple truth of it is that I got so
worked up over Saturday being Sue Bird's birthday that I couldn't think straight enough to type.
No? You're not buying it? Well then... I just thought that wadE's description of Long Island Life was so good that it needed to stay up another day.
Seriously? Still no? You gotta admit that the crack about the suede outfits was good, though.
Alright, the actual truth is that I just got tied up. I left work thinking I'd work out, and then either have time for a quick gambit after that, or
after post-workweek libations with the work crew. But then Laura called me, and we went to see Ladder 49, which turned out to be a damn good movie.
So I just didn't get to it. I'll make up for it by writing an extrey-long Monday gambit instead.
So what I've been doing fairly frequently at the health club lately is running on the ghetto upstairs track, where one mile equals 12 laps. The hardest part
about doing that is staying mentally involved in how many laps I've run. So as I was telling Becca and Bounce last night, I've taken to trying to think of each
lap in terms of famous (or not famous) athletes who've had the jersey number corresponding to the lap I'm running.
I know ESPN ran a list of the best athletes by jersey number a while back, and while that's cool and all, I'm really just doing this from my own memory, so
if you can think of someone I've forgotten, don't get angry, go create your own post in our Forums, and fire off
your own list. Here's my list of the moment, because it changes each time I try to think of it...
O (I start counting at zero). Robert Parrish. Kevin Duckworth(?)
1. Rafael Furcal. Jeff George (Falcons? Colts?)
2. Me, goddamit! Oh yeah, and Derek Jeter. Eric Brewer (Oilers). Frankie Hejduk. Luis Rivas. Darren Bennett. Tim Couch. Brian Leetch.
3. Babe Ruth. Theismann and Montana (Irish).
4. Brett Favre. Jim Harbaugh (Colts). Tony Womack.
5. DiMaggio(?). Albert Pujols.
6. Tough one. Joe Torre? Brandi Chastain?
7. John Elway. Mike Vick.
8. Mark Brunell? Kobe Bryant. Latrell Sprewell.
9. Mike Modano. Mia Hamm. Paul Kariya. Tommy Kramer.
10. Sue Bird! Fran Tarkenton. Steve Bartkowski. Esa Tikkanen. Chipper Jones.
11. Gary Sheffield. Jacque Jones. Wade Wilson. Daunte Culpepper. Drew Bledsoe.
12. Joe Ferguson. (Don't ask why, that name just popped in there). Mark Belhorn. (I'm watching the Red Sox).
13. Mats Sundin. Bill Guerin. Alex Rodriguez. Lindsay Whalen.
14. Kent Hrbek. Umm...
15. Carlos Beltran. Cristian Guzman.
16. Joe Montana. Len Dawson. Jake Plummer.
17. Todd Helton. Umm... Jason Garrett?
18. Peyton Manning? Jason?
19. Keyshawn Johnson. Montana (Chiefs). Joe Sakic. Yzerman? (Or is he 91?)
20. Barry Sanders.
21. Deion Sanders. Peter Forsberg. Warren Spahn.
Yeah, so you get the idea, because I'm getting bored with it. I've gone as high as 36. If I start getting into 5-mile runs up there I might be in trouble.
Anything more than that and I definitely will be. Heh.
And, one last thing: Jake just called me from the road. Our kids went 7-0 on the weekend in Winnipeg and won a frisbee tournament. (For those who need
explanation - we're coaches. He and another guy are the boys coach, I'm the new girls coach. This tournament was co-ed.) So that's pretty damn sweet.
Alright, I'm out.
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