Hypes and Gripes

Cardinals, Code Pink, disgusting bathroom-users

• Hypes to the Springfield Cardinals and their fans. At press time, the team was preparing to play in the Texas League championship series against San Antonio. We won’t soon forget Games 1 and 2 of the division series—a late-night, late-rally affair followed by a Game 2 walk-off home run by Colby Rasmus. And the fans were awesome, loudly cheering a Tulsa player when he made a nice running catch. Springfield truly is the “Class of the Texas League.” (Feel free to use that line, Cardinals staff.)

• Gripes to the disturbed individual who caused a ruckus September 1 in the restrooms near the Battlefield Mall’s east entrance (near Ruby Tuesday). Apparently some sick individual (and we mean that in the clinical sense) coated both the men’s and women’s restrooms with... well, the most foul substance to be found in restrooms, forcing the toilets to be closed while they were cleaned and completely disinfected. Talk about a public health hazard—there’s a reason even the most perverse of sex clubs don’t allow such filth. Thanks to alert reader Craig for the heads up.

• Gripes to all the hand-wringing surrounding the Code Pink fiasco at Hammons Field. Sure, the anti-war group’s “IMPEACH” banner might have been better received on a night when there weren’t injured veterans being honored, but if you don’t like their views, don’t subscribe to them. Is it really worth almost 100 “Down with the Pinkos!” comments on the paper’s message board? On the upside, maybe this will spur Hammons Field’s ticket-takers toward a new degree of security.
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