Smothered, Covered, and Chunked

A Game Summary Served 3 Ways

When we lived in Georgia, I loved going to the local Waffle House where you could order your hashbrowns in a variety of ways:

  Scattered - plain

  Smothered - with sautéed onions

  Covered – with melted cheese

  Chunked – with ham

  Diced – with grilled tomatoes

  Peppered – with jalapeno peppers

  Capped – with grilled mushrooms

  Topped – with chili

  Country – with sausage gravy

There are many ways to tell the story of our game last Tuesday, let’s start with plain and simple.

Scattered:  Cougars lose 12-3 to Braeside Boys.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Not enough flavor for you?  Try this.

We’ll call it smothered, covered, and chunked:

Martini led the night off with an excellent and diverse beverage and food selection.  The pregame was a victory.

In the top of the first,  Charley Rads walked and then was forced out at second on a ground ball by Scotty Rads.  Fort came up next and sliced a beauty of a ball to right.  Rads was running on the pitch and raced to third while Fort took a huge turn at first, which provoked a throw to the base and enabled Rads to run home for our first tally.

JD led off the top of the second and had a 1-2 count.  The pitcher, ahead in the count, lofted the next pitch to the blue sky.  JD smacked it with all his might to left center and sprinted around the diamond for a leadoff home run!  Li’l with a crushed the Clincher to the left side and Flandog laced a liner to right, but we left them stranded.

JD's Homer! 

In the third, Fort flattened a hard grounder and beat out the throw.  Martini hit a perfectly placed hit into right center putting men on one and two. JD hit another rocket single to load them up.  Joker then pulled a high fly ball to left field and knocked Fort in with a sacrifice fly.

In the fifth Charley walked and in the seventh Martini walked.

Game over.  We scored three and our opponent scored more.

You still can’t get enough Cougars?  Then you want your hashbrowns “all the way,” as they say at Waffle House, which means everything on it.  For that, you can watch the full video below.

After we win our next game, Waffle House should add "Drizzled - syrup" to the hash brown lineup because it will be a sweet victory.

Another postscript this week:

Did you know that FEMA uses a Waffle House Index to determine the severity of a natural disaster?    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

Our man Crawdaddy, who used to work for FEMA and now runs the Disaster Services unit for Feeding America, could not make our last game because he has been busy with the derecho recovery in Iowa, wildfires in California, and the storms in Texas and Louisiana.  Let’s be sure to root for him too!

Ok, one more PS - thanks to JRads for helping me finish the blog this week!