Adrian's New Ride

by Dalton on Jul 15, 2008 6:49 AM PDT

So apparently I work right above the staging area for the All-Star Parade. This morning I was able to hastily snap a couple pictures of Adrian's new wheels, but didn't realize my phone was taking B&W pics until I got to Hamilton's truck. I'll try to get out in a couple hours and take some better ones, hopefully with some major league baseball all-star players. (in color this time)

Does MLB have something against the environment, though? Why can't they give out Segways or hybrids? Sheesh. Also, I don't think even a major leaguer wants to pay two hundred bucks to fill one of these puppies up:

Adrian's:

Buddy's:

Hamilton's:

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There's a parade?

Man, the All-Star Game is so lame.

by Winfield's Ghost on Jul 15, 2008 7:18 AM PDT 0 recs

I didn't know, either.

But I’m gonna see if I can sneak into the back of Bud’s truck. I’ve got some questions for him.

by Dalton on Jul 15, 2008 7:44 AM PDT up 0 recs

Don't slip on the pile of old US Magazines

by Winfield's Ghost on Jul 15, 2008 8:00 AM PDT up 0 recs

And be sure to say hello

to Joe Thatcher. I’m sure those two couldn’t stand to be apart for the whole entire All-Star break.

Could be worse... could be the offseason.

by EllieK on Jul 15, 2008 9:49 AM PDT up 1 recs

It's a GM thing?

Guys like Tom Brady, Hines Ward, and Eli Manning win Escalades and various Cadillacs for winning Super Bowl MVP. David Eckstein gets a Corvette, before admitting he can’t drive a stick, let alone reach the pedals for winning MVP in in the 2006 series. But then Mike Lowell gets stuck with a Malibu Hybrid for winning the 2007 World Series MVP.

Those trucks look like Silverados, and Chevy does make a hybrid version of them, but somehow I don’t think those are. Even if they were, they’d still have the same thousand-gallon tanks, and get like 18 mpg as opposed to the 9 the non-hybrid gets, and let’s face it, they’re being used in a parade; moving 0.5 mph, they may as well be idling. Can’t they just hitch them all in succession, and then have one big semi up front pull them all?

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Jul 15, 2008 7:55 AM PDT 0 recs

It's kind of environmentally conscious

Turns out these trucks are the FlexFuel version. But, like you said, at 14-16 MPG, I’m not sure that counts.

Could be worse... could be the offseason.

by EllieK on Jul 15, 2008 10:00 AM PDT up 0 recs

Well...

maybe at the next drum circle the hippies can pass around a plate and collect enough money for the media buy to get the rights to it.

MLB… not a hippie-friendly sport, think of the trees!

/and… scene.

can you cure us of this fate
mock the litany in its face

by Axion on Jul 15, 2008 12:14 PM PDT up 0 recs

Got slammed at work

Couldn’t step out to stalk our first baseman. Probably for the best, as they were preparing for a million people to be on the parade route.

by Dalton on Jul 15, 2008 10:04 AM PDT 0 recs

Convenience

Trucks like this are stinking up dealers’ lots all over the country. This is the only change GM has to move them. “Buy a Silverado with the Ass-print of your favorite MLB player, and enjoy 1.9% financing, up to $10,000 cash back, and Rick Wagoner will personally deliver it to your home.”

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom." - George S. Patton

by Boilermaker19 on Jul 15, 2008 11:49 AM PDT 0 recs