Meet your bloggers and win a PI subscription
Posted by Andy on August 5, 2010
Yesterday a few of the B-R.com bloggers got together--Sean, Neil, and myself. (Well, OK, Sean and Neil are more than just bloggers here!)
Click through for a photo and a contest.
Sean took the following photo of Neil (left) and me:
That's about the best an iPhone camera can do when looking into the sun, but I promise you that Neil and I were both smiling.
Your challenge is as follows:
Sean picked this exact location for our photo for a very specific baseball-related reason. Figure out why and be the first to post it in the comments below, and Sean will reward you with a free 1-year Play Index subscription.
editor (sean): Bill is correct it is a Hooters, but not in WPB. We are in Atlanta and I was incorrectly led to believe (or perhaps incorrectly assumed) that this was the Jones' Hooters. Sorry for leading our readers astray, but in the interest of fairness. I'm going to make Bill the winner on this. Thanks for playing.
I will also give out a free PI sub to the best fictional reason that this Hooters has historical baseball significance. Contest ends end of day on Friday. Keep it clean!
August 5th, 2010 at 6:04 am
Looks like it's at a Hooters. Is it the Hooters in West Palm Beach, FL where one of Chipper Jones' several mistresses was employed?
Or is it just some Hooters in Atlanta, where SABR 40 is held?
August 5th, 2010 at 6:08 am
Hooters, somewhere in America
August 5th, 2010 at 7:56 am
Surely it's the Hooters where the Padres got these great rookie hazing outfits a couple years ago: http://www.gaslampball.com/2008/9/17/616757/padres-rookies-photographe
August 5th, 2010 at 8:14 am
Is it the former La Rôtisserie Française, where Rotisserie baseball was born?
August 5th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Keep wanting it to be where Griffey's home run derby shot landed after hitting the B&O Warehouse...but it's probably not.
August 5th, 2010 at 8:41 am
it´s not only "just some Hooters in Atlanta, where SABR 40 is held?" i think it´s the Hooters located
209 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
which is 1/2 a mile to
Sheraton Atlanta Hotel
165 Courtland Street NE. Atlanta, GA 30303
where SABR 40 is held
August 5th, 2010 at 11:29 am
This is the Hooters where Lynne Austin, Playboy Playmaate and ex-wife of Darren Daulton, used to work. Darren brought the boys there often; Dykstra had a spitoon there just for him. And if you think they called Mitch Williams "Whild Thing" for his walks, you didn't see him here after a day game.
August 5th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
In October of 1977, fresh off his 1-game stint as a Braves skipper; ted turner became manager of this Hooters, and became the first person in America to simultaneously piss off Bowie Kuhn and Jane Fonda.
August 5th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I already have PI, but, I love to play...so...here's my best fictional reason that this Hooters has historical baseball significance...
In the updated version of "The Natural," assisted by the "Lady in White," Roy Hobbs homers in a game against the Braves, busting a slump and breaking the huge Coke bottle in the Coke Sky Field area at Turner Field. And, afterwards, he meets the "Lady," Iris Gaines, at the Hooters in the picture for a lemonade.
By the way, if you're into The Natural, you may like this from a while back:
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020918.html
August 5th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
This Hooters was built at the site of young Ty Cobb's very first victim. Yessiree, a 10-year-old Georgia Peach spiked a fella by the name of Claud Derrick sliding into second base. The legendary spot itself is marked by a barstool, over which hangs an authentic pair of game-worn Cobb cleats.
August 6th, 2010 at 10:12 am
At this Hooters, late in the 1983 season, Indians' GM Phil Seghi got Braves' GM John Mullen so smashed that Mullen agreed to give the Indians Brett Butler as the PTNL in the Len Barker deal.
(PS If I had a vote I'd vote for Zachary's entry. Hilarious.)
August 6th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Your intrepid baseball researchers try to determine if this is the very spot where, many years ago, Roger Bresnahan came up with the idea of the chest protector.
August 6th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Kanka beat me to the punch...
Kanka Says:
August 5th, 2010 at 8:14 am
Is it the former La Rôtisserie Française, where Rotisserie baseball was born?
August 6th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I think I can finally reveal the true story here.
In 1961, a few years after his playing career ended, Hoot Evers started his own restaurant chain, intending to use his own name for the name of that chain. While the franchising paperwork was being filed, a dreadful clerical error resulted in the name being shortened from "Hoot Evers" to simply "Hooters". Even worse, after Evers was forced out as majority owner in 1985, the new controlling management decided to take advantage of the incorrect name by changing its hiring policy among wait staff to match the name.
August 6th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
In my best Carson voice...
I...did...not...know...that!
August 6th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Waitresses wrestling in baseball rubbing mud? The boys' smiles may not prove that the rumor is true, but . . .
August 6th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Hey, where'd my comment about you guys having diddly with the waitresses at Hooters go!?
August 6th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Hey, where'd my comment about you guys having diddly with the waitresses go!?
August 6th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Oh nevermind, I didn't realize that last comment went through.
August 16th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Kahuna,
If you check this thread shoot me an e-mail.