Hold on my soup is burning...
(45 seconds later)
Okay, I'm back.
The Numbers Game is an old trick of sportscasters, and has been used by everybody from my favourite "sportsmen" – such as ESPN's Bill Simmons and TSN's Darren Dutchyshen – to some of the most maligned men in the business – I will not say who for the fear that I may one day work with one or two of them.
It's simple, and you probably know it.
4 – Number of Hooters restaurants visited on this trip
21 – Dollars of the trip's most expensive drink
3 – Most Big Macs finished in one sitting
5,000 – The amount of times that Jordan Niskanen played "Party In The USA" by Miley Cyrus
30 – Roughly the amount of "points" that Alex Graham accumulated to win Legend of the Trip
-10 – Roughly the amount of "points" that Jordan Niskanen accumulated to not win Legend of the Trip
4 – Number of times in a row that Mike Weatherbee won on 1 number in Roulette
4 – Number of different casinos he did it in
3 – Number of home runs witnessed that went over the Green Monster at Fenway Park
8 – How many runs A.J. Burnett allowed to the Boston Red Sox
0 – Number of times one should "experience" Oakland Coliseum
13 – Amount of people who slept in one room in the MGM Grand
3 – Celebrity sightings (Suzann Sommers, Pete Rose, and the guy that plays Stevie on "Eastbound and Down")
1 – Number of cab drivers who openly hated Brett Favre, and then retracted that thought while continuing to speak on the subject and realizing that he still loved him
30 – Number of beers Josh Ellis never collected for winning the Survivor Game (you guess the winner every game, and the last man standing wins)
3 – Number of times we witness the Arizona Diamondbacks live
1 – Number of times the Arizona Diamondbacks were actually alive for those games
45 – Roughly the amount of times that very clever baseball fans conjured up the chirp, "Hey... Blue Jays suck"
1 – Number of times that was said with a Latin American accent (it was even funnier)
2 – Number of innings Alex Rios ended with bad hitting/baserunning for the Chicago White Sox
14 – Number of "boysies" over the entire trip who wore Blue Jays sweaters to a game
0 – Number of times we saw the Blue Jays play
1,324 – Number of times the word "knife" was said on the trip
1,325 – Number of times the word "Dwayne" was used to describe somebody sleeping/being an idiot/gazing off into space
$5 – Total cost of a bag of peanuts, pop, hot dog, cookie, and popcorn at the San Diego Padres game
3 – The number of points Alex Ovechkin already has in his first NHL regular season game this season (this is not from the Road Trip)
