Sunday 27 January 2008

Yeah, Baby!


Went to the second game of the Roughnecks lacrosse season. You know, there's no better way to feel like an out of touch, old fogey than to sit beside two ubercool 15 year old dudes.

Some samples;

Me jumping up an telling "Yeah, baby!!" A lot.
UC Dudes, slinking down in their seats, grimacing at each other.

Me: "Check it out, guys, the ref got some guy for using an illegal stick! Yeah baby!"
UC Dude #1 (with a nano turn of his head); "No...they regularly check them all game long. Nobody got caught."
Me: "Oh...."

Me: "Hey? Why'd they blow the whistle? Come on ref!!"
UC Dude #2 (with an incredibly pained expression): "Because the period's over."
Me: "Oh, yeah."
His last comment was said with his mouth. His eyes said; can you possibly be any more stupid?

Well, apparently from their ongoing expressions, I was just getting warmed up. Yeah, baby!

Me (now late in the game): "A penalty shot? Are you nuts ref? He didn't touch him!"
UCD#1: "Too many men, less than two minutes in the game, a penalty shot." They were by now resigned to explaining and correcting almost every one of my comments.
Me: "Oh...." (In my defense, how do you know that rule?)

Let's just say I think these guys are now planning to shoot themselves long before they reach 40. If this is what it's going to be like.

And neither of them will ever drink beer. Good, more for me.

3 comments:

Rob Greenfield said...

Yeah Baby!

Anonymous said...

...as the Beatles use to say...Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Baby!.
Think the UC dudes ever heard of the Beatles?...yeah, yeah, yeah, probably not.

Urban Cowboy said...

Actually, "Yeah, baby!" is the signature line of the local play by play broadcaster, Peter Mar.

But I agree the UCD's likely have not heard of the Beatles. Or at least would be too cool to admit it.