For those of you who don't know the story of Boof Bonser, I will quickly fill you in. Boof was born October 14th, 1981 in St. Petersburg Florida. Armed with a fastball, change and curve, his parents named him John Paul Bonser. As he skipped through life, the nickname "Boof" was given to him at an early age and boy, it stuck. In fact, after years of being known as Boof, John Paul decided to legally change his name in the summer of 2001. With this, a legend was born.
So, how did the name get such publicity and turn Mr. Bonser into a cult hero? This can be traced to his early days living in New York. When Boof was in his younger years, a group of teenage counselors at a summer camp in Long Island, New York took a strong liking to Boof's unique first name. After replacing numerous verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech with the word, it has caused his popularity to grow immensely among youngsters in Long Island. Chants of "B-O-O-F, BOOF, BOOF, BOOF" break out during athletic activities, as well as sentences containing the word, 'boof'. For example: "Hey man, this new rule is mad boof!" or "Today's game will be Boofball," the 'Bonserfied' version of dodgeball. Thus, the legend grew.
On Monday afternoon (America's Labor Day), Bonser (3-5, 5.17 ERA) made an indelible impact in a baseball match against the little team that never could, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Six and a third strong innings of work, including 6 Ks, raised the Boof Roof. He earned his fourth win of the year and lowered his ERA by nearly half a point. So how was it done?
In all honesty, the game was boring. It was the type of game where you drift in and out of sleep only to regain your composure and realize that nothing has changed. Five innings of scoreless baseball went by until a 22 year-old rookie catcher by the name of Dioner Navarro decided to play longball with Bonser's first-pitch fastball. Navarro is a solid player who came out of the Yankees' farm system and was shipped around three times before winding up on the Devil Rays.
Tampa Bay 1, Minnesota 0.
Suzy: "Someone wake up JoeMantle before he misses the action!"
(Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep) Sorry, I appeared to have dozed off. Fast forward to the seventh frame. After a Justin Morneau single, Rondell White stepped up and took matters into his own hands...or should I say bat. On a 1-2 count, White gave Twins Nation reason to say a collective "BOOYAH!!" as the ball sailed over the left field wall. Enter the bullpen to allow only one hit in the final 3 frames and baby, this one's in the bag.
With Chicago's 3-2 loss to Boston on Monday, this win puts Minnesota back in front in the Wild Card Race by a half a game and five games behind Detroit in the division, with the Tigers' 6-2 win over Seattle.
So, how did the name get such publicity and turn Mr. Bonser into a cult hero? This can be traced to his early days living in New York. When Boof was in his younger years, a group of teenage counselors at a summer camp in Long Island, New York took a strong liking to Boof's unique first name. After replacing numerous verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech with the word, it has caused his popularity to grow immensely among youngsters in Long Island. Chants of "B-O-O-F, BOOF, BOOF, BOOF" break out during athletic activities, as well as sentences containing the word, 'boof'. For example: "Hey man, this new rule is mad boof!" or "Today's game will be Boofball," the 'Bonserfied' version of dodgeball. Thus, the legend grew.
On Monday afternoon (America's Labor Day), Bonser (3-5, 5.17 ERA) made an indelible impact in a baseball match against the little team that never could, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Six and a third strong innings of work, including 6 Ks, raised the Boof Roof. He earned his fourth win of the year and lowered his ERA by nearly half a point. So how was it done?
In all honesty, the game was boring. It was the type of game where you drift in and out of sleep only to regain your composure and realize that nothing has changed. Five innings of scoreless baseball went by until a 22 year-old rookie catcher by the name of Dioner Navarro decided to play longball with Bonser's first-pitch fastball. Navarro is a solid player who came out of the Yankees' farm system and was shipped around three times before winding up on the Devil Rays.
Tampa Bay 1, Minnesota 0.
Suzy: "Someone wake up JoeMantle before he misses the action!"
(Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep) Sorry, I appeared to have dozed off. Fast forward to the seventh frame. After a Justin Morneau single, Rondell White stepped up and took matters into his own hands...or should I say bat. On a 1-2 count, White gave Twins Nation reason to say a collective "BOOYAH!!" as the ball sailed over the left field wall. Enter the bullpen to allow only one hit in the final 3 frames and baby, this one's in the bag.
With Chicago's 3-2 loss to Boston on Monday, this win puts Minnesota back in front in the Wild Card Race by a half a game and five games behind Detroit in the division, with the Tigers' 6-2 win over Seattle.
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Johan Santana (16-5, 2.95 ERA) will take the bump Tuesday night, looking for his 17th win of the season against the Korean interpretive dancer commonly known as Jae Seo (3-9, 5.13 ERA). I predict there a huge brawl with 8 ejections, a bloody Rocco Baldelli and a Justin Morneau powerbomb off Delmon Young. You'll have to tune in to see all this mayhem unfold at 6:15 CT.
2 comments:
So the game wasn't on tv yesterday..at least not here, but I'm actually not too bummed, because looking at the wrap and score sheet, that was boring enough. But hey, I'm happy as ever! I mean hello, anytime we win and the White Sox lose how can you not be happy. Haha. And I'm happy for RW, he helped us take over the wild card lead! Although, how many times have we gotten up by half a game to only go down the next days... no need to repeat the past though. And like Suz said, with Johan Santana going, (I'll try not to jinx anything) things are looking pretty good. I just hope we find our offense and remember what hits and runs are!
looks like we made a good prediction megan!
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