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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Eat great, even late
This is exactly what I worried about with this weird scheduling:
Heavy fog and thunderstorms late Sunday forced the Angels' charter to be diverted from Toronto to Detroit.
The Angels reached Detroit about 2 a.m. Monday and, because of landing restrictions in Toronto, sat on the tarmac for four hours. They finally flew to Toronto, arriving at 6:30 a.m. and reaching their hotel at 8 a.m.
Emerging as a hero in the Angels' travails was traveling secretary Tom Taylor, who made a middle-of-the-night food run to White Castle in Detroit and returned with 240 burgers and 25 bags of fries, a $325 order that caught employees of the burger joint off guard.
"I walked in, the person at the counter said, 'Good morning,' and I said, 'I need eight 30-packs of burgers and 25 fries,' " Taylor said. "The guy behind the counter said, 'Hold on a sec.' Then the manager came up and took the order, and they made them in about 35 minutes."
So the Halos had to travel, without rest, for almost seven hours the day before a ballgame, on a day which should have been an off day! All so 7,000 Canadians could celebrate the Queen's fake birthday with a baseball game! Yes, that great British tradition of baseball. What sense does that make?
So, 240 burgers- that's quite a few. That's enough for Colon, but what do you suppose the rest of the team ate?
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