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Posted by: Sam Borden - Posted in Misc on Feb 14, 2010 
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Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone – hope you’re with someone you love today and/or at least eating a boatload of chocolate. Either way.
In the spirit of the holiday, I thought it’d be nice to share this terrific piece by Doug Miller, who comes up with a team of all-timers that would fit right in on this day of love. It’s worth a look.
This year it seems like most baseball writers got a break; I recall two years in a row having to leave for spring training on or before Valentine’s Day (thanks, Joe Torre) which didn’t exactly sit well with The Girlfriend. Thankfully, she didn’t hold it against me and went on to become The Wife.
For those of you with more a bah-humbug approach to V-Day, you’ll no doubt enjoy this: I was listening to the Rangers-Lightning game in the car this afternoon and heard the announcers describe how a young man in the crowd proposed to his date on the scoreboard during a stoppage in play. The woman looked at the board, looked at the man and promptly got up and stormed out, the would-be groom chasing hopelessly after.
Ah, young love. What a thing.
UPDATE, 4:42 p.m.: Good job by reader Tom, who found video of the, um, aborted proposal here.
“I was listening to the Rangers-Lightning game in the car this afternoon and heard the announcers describe how a young man in the crowd proposed to his date on the scoreboard during a stoppage in play. The woman looked at the board, looked at the man and promptly got up and stormed out, the would-be groom chasing hopelessly after.”
Here’s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4AlDQT5sM8
Kudos to the young fellow for at least trying. $ ux to be him, but he’ll get over it [hopefully].
Just a quick word of advice to all the young wanna-be Romeos out there…marriage proposals at sporting events generally don’t get big scores on the romance meter.
My girlfriend is on record telling me she’d stab me if I ever went the jumbotron route.
I’d bet money she told him never to do something like that.
And I’m familiar with that look she gave him.
It wasn’t the “That’s sweet but the isn’t the time or place” look.
That was the “You’re a blank-ing blank-hole” look.
Good job, Tom – thanks
OK Sam….. so wifey is OK if you can’t make Valentine’s Day. Good. But what about the girlfriend?
He looked at the PECOTA forecast on his proposal and thought he had a shot.
Unfortunately for him, the model was flawed.
LOL-that video is a riot. Poor guy.
OYF: Girlfriend wasn’t happy but I made up for it back then. Now, thankfully, we’re able to celebrate together. Got a nice meal planned for tonight and went to a surprise concert last week …
I just don’t get these public proposals. They leave absolutely no plausible deniability whatever; you can’t blame it on too much beer or scotch or even a language issue. You’re locked in with no way out. I don’t get it. This guy dodged a big one. Next time maybe this clown will ask “what would the Captain do?” Answer: “Don’t ask on the jumbo-tron in front of 10,000 people Einstein.”
Happy Valentines Day.
I’m single and proud of it. I’m going out for dinner by myself and probably won’t even have chocolate. The restaurant I’m going to serves panna cotta for dessert and I adore panna cotta.
Betsy-good for you!!! I’m a proud singleton also
Chocolate is my weakness though-if there’s a choice between chocolate and some other dessert, chocolate wins every time.
Erin, I eat chocolate, but only in occasional spurts. Most chocolate desserts are too rich for me…………Happy Valentine’s Day! I celebrated early last night by watching a documentary on the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre – very romantic, lol
Betsy-that documentary sounds like it would be good! I spent my weekend trying to catch up on some of the Oscar nominated movies-I saw An Education and Crazy Heart (loved both-esp. Crazy Heart)
Enjoy your dinner, and Happy Valentine’s Day!!
hahaha! Good one
Just a quick word of advice to all the young wanna-be Romeos out there…marriage proposals at sporting events generally don’t get big scores on the romance meter.
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Yeah no kidding. I thought that was common knowledge by now. I guess this guy didn’t get the message. I feel bad for him but I think there was even a piece a few V-Days ago where they asked a bunch of female celebrities what would be the most unromantic proposal they could think of. A bunch of them said “proposal at a baseball game”, “proposal at a sporting event” etc.
I think this poor guy had been watching too many movies.
Didn’t watch the video, don’t intend to as my idea of a good time isn’t getting a yuk from someone else’s misfortune, and I feel nothing but sad for the kid.
I hope they make up and he gets another chance at it.
I almost watched it.